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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• GAY RIGHTS

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports. ”Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach the NFL and all of major Amerin men's pro sports, acrdg to Outsports.

" San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, a pneer among female ach the NFL, me out as the the league's first openly gay ach 2017, acrdg to Outsports.

He add that he reached out last year for advice on g out om former Las Vegas Rairs lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active openly gay player NFL history 2021. In this article:Many have looked at the letters and wonred why the L go first you nsir how much of the early gay rights movement was domated by gay men, the orr seems even more the arrangement isn’t random. There’s an important, historil reason why the L go first ’s a tribute and a symbol of allyship between gay men and lbian women as they fought to survive the AIDS ’s a certa power namg thgs.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

S., the term “homosexual” was most mon prr to the ‘40s and ‘50s, when the word “gay” began beg ed as a slang term for those attracted to the same sex. Before the late 19th century, ed to mean “cheerful” and “reee, ” which, ironilly, gay men didn’t really have much room to be. “Gay” beme mastream the ‘70s, and by then, the term “lbian” was also beg popular as a way for women-lovg women to differentiate that’s the L and the G.

Here’s a quick ndown of what the other letters mean:Queer: Origally meang “strange” when was first ed the 16th century, beme a homophobic slur around the turn of the 20th century. Asexual: To be asexual is to not have any sexual attractn to the start of the gay rights movement, there was a huge foc on men’s issu (unfortunately, even wh the muny, misogyny is still very much alive). Where gay men’s reprentatn was pretty poor, lbians weren’t reprented much at all, and so the G tend to go first the public imagatn as ph towards puttg the L first LGBT began wh the AIDS crisis of the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Bee HIV and AIDS were first observed medilly among jectn dg ers and gay men, the homophobia kicked and the disease was falsely associated wh the gay muny — so much so that for a time, was known as GRID, or gay-related immune so, gay men and the trans muny took the bnt of the public got pretty ugly om there, and I’d rather not go to the tails. But suffice to say that gay men and trans women were dyg en masse, and people were not jt lost on how to help them — many also downright refed to, believg that was some sort of punishment om who did gay men turn to? The lbians, of much of the world turned their back on sick gay men, was the lbians, who are relatively low-risk (though not risk-ee!

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

Those who uld, worked wh the healthre system — which was (and still is) eply genred — to enter patients’ rooms and treat gay men when other doctors were too sred.

Volunteerg to go to those rooms and help my iends who were dyg, ” said Jon, an elrly gay man who lived through the outbreak San Francis. When felt like the ernment, too, had abandoned gay men (then Print Regan, for example, only spoke about AIDS 1987, after had killed 20, 000 and fected about 36, 000 Amerins) lbians also lobbied for them through and alongsi anizatns like Act Up and TAG.

Providg for gay men’s needs, donatg their blood, and takg charge as lears both on the streets and Washgton — all this is why lbians have been lled the unsung hero of the AIDS AIDS crisis further policized the LGBT muny, and the overflowg support om lbians also meant a more expand gay civil rights movement, explaed John-Manuel Andrte, thor of Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life wrote, “[] created a level of solidary between gay men and lbians that didn’t exist before. ”As lbians ntued to challenge patriarchal stctur of power outsi and, ccially, wh queer spac, gay men also regnized the role lbians played the AIDS crisis. When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Leonard Fk Photographs, The LGBT Communy Center Natnal History ArchiveMark SegalEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and marshal of the first Pri marchThe Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March was as revolutnary and chaotic as everythg we did that first year after the Stonewall rts.

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” Today, my origal marshal’s badge is on display the JayEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and Radilbians and -anizer of the first march New York and Los AngelIt was a near miracle that the first Christopher Street Wt Para Los Angel kicked off at all on June 28, 1970. For one day, we were victor agast the Ed Davis of the world, and no one seemed “dismod” the FkelsteJohn KyperEarly member of Boston’s Gay Liberatn Front and an anizer of Boston’s first Pri ParaWe held our first march Boston 1971 — a year after New York. The march began at a baret bar lled Jacqu — which is still there and still gay — and ma three addnal stops along the route where we read a seri of mands.

ActivistI grew up Jersey Cy close to the PATH tra and was lucky to fd my first boyiend my high school sophomore homeroom class. Jam GreenProfsor of morn Lat Amerin history at Brown Universy and -anizer of Brazil’s first Gay Pri marchI lived São Plo durg the dictatorship of the late 1970s.

Groups hosted the 17th ternatnal nference of ILGA (The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn), and the energy of the ternatnal legat who attend and the excement of hostg the gatherg only add to the drama of the untry’s first actual succsful para. The fear was Schal/Associated PrsChiké Frankie EdozienAuthor of “Liv of Great Men: Livg and Lovg as an Ain Gay Man”I me to the U.