For Robbie Rogers, it's business as usual after coming out as gay

For Robbie Rogers, it's business as usual after coming out as gay

If Robbie Rogers needed a reminder that fame can be fleeting, he got it Monday morning when he boarded a US Airways flight to North Carolina. A few hours earlier, by playing the final 13 minutes of a Major League Soccer match for the Galaxy, he had become the first openly gay male athlete to compete in one of the country's five major professional leagues. His face was splashed across the front page of dozens of sports sections on two continents and ESPN was running highlights of his appearance in what seemed like an endless loop. But at the airport he was just another passenger, wedged uncomfortably into a middle seat for a 4-hour trip across the country. "I slept the whole way," Rogers... WN.com - Articles related to Soccer star Robbie Rogers dating Hollywood producer Greg Berlanti