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When Michael Sam shattered the glass ceiling and became the first openly gay man to get drafted in the NFL I was thrilled for him and full of pride as a gay black man. I noticed immediately though, when Michael Sam got the call from the coach of the St. Louis Rams he was in a sea of whiteness. He was the only African American in the room when he got drafted. A part of me was indeed happy that Michael Sam broke a barrier.

Roy Simmons, a former offensive lineman for the Giants and the Washington Redskins and one of only a handful of N. He was The cause was complications related to pneumonia, his brother Gary said. Simmons learned he had H. Simmons, a star at Georgia Tech, was drafted in the eighth round by the Giants in and played four years in the N. At 6 feet 3 inches and pounds, he had been called Sugar Bear by his teammates since college. Coaches saw enormous potential, but also warning signs in his raucous social life.

We look back at the GQ archive in the singer, who died in London over Christmas in , aged 53, has packed several lifetimes into four decades, beating drugs, depression and a cruel outing at the hands of the world's media. In his most revealing interview to date, conducted in when he won our GQ Lifetime Achievement award, he explains why it's all been worth it. George Michael's house is tucked away alongside a block of flats in the dead end of a rather unremarkable west London road. His Range Rover barely squeezes onto the off-street parking area, and there are no security gates, no imposing entrance pillars, and not so much as a CCTV camera or concrete lion in sight. Britney et al would pale at the thought.

Ridgeley knew Michael was gay in when the pair were shooting Club Tropicana, but it was 15 years before he came out publicly. In mourning: Wham! Michael refused to come out even after his boyfriend Anselmo Feleppa died from Aids in What had be become?