Alone in the Trenches
My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL
Esera Tuaolo
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Description
This is Esera Tuaolo's own searing story of terror and hope. A Samoan raised on a Hawaiian banana plantation, he had a natural talent, football. He went on to play for five NFL teams: the Green Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Carolina Panthers, and the Atlanta Falcons in the 1999 Super Bowl. But for the nine years he played professional football he lived in terror that when his face flashed upon the TV screen, someone would divulge his darkest secret. Esera Tuaolo is gay.
Alone in the Trenches takes you inside the homophobic world of professional football and describes fears that almost drove him to suicide. He evokes heartbreak--how his older brother, Tua, died of AIDS--and hope when, Esera, a deeply devout Christian fell in love and started a family.
“Tuaolo emerges in these pages as a complex, intellectually curious and fascinating individual defined neither by his choice of career nor by his sexual orientation.” --Booklist
“Tough, tender and brutally honest.” --Robert Lipsyte, former New York Times sports columnist
“Even I was not prepared for his amazing life story.” --Billy Bean, author of Going the Other Way

- $13.99
- Category: Football
- Published: Jun 01, 2007
- Publisher: Sourcebooks
- Seller: Sourcebooks, Inc.
- Print Length: 288 Pages
- Language: English
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