Kev Maxen, Jaguars strength ach, out as gay a first for U.S.-based pro leagu - Washgton Tim

Contents:

• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• KEV GAY(I)
• KEV SPACEY SAYS HE WAED UNTIL 58 TO COME OUT AS GAY BEE HIS DAD ‘WAS A NEO-NAZI’
• ONE OF US: KEV GAY MA TRANSN OM SELLG SURANCE TO CHANGG LIV
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• 'LOVE NEVER LI': IS KEV GAY? HERE'S WHY KATHERE LEFT HIM FOR HER EX ELIAS

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

"What he did, " he said of Gay, " worked. "'Cy that r':Operatn New Hope and two other Jacksonville nonprofs regnized for cril role of muny partnershipsOperatn New Hope: Jaguars and Geia-based nonprof brgg ee nstctn class to JacksonvilleThe chance meetg was emotnal, particularly for Gay, who is partg the nonprof Thursday after 23 years.

Meetg succs stori like Hill, Gay said, "that's what fuels  … every day. "Missn trips closer to homeBegng the early 1980s, Gay was the rporate world.

KEV GAY(I)

He sold surance for Jacksonville bs and civic lear Tom Petway's pany, now lled US Assure, and rose to vice eply relig Gay often took ternatnal missn trips until his spirual adviser, the Rev. "In 1999 Gay found Operatn New Hope, which ially foced on rtorg old ho Sprgfield — to provi affordable hog — and hirg and trag neighborhood rints to do the work.

KEV SPACEY SAYS HE WAED UNTIL 58 TO COME OUT AS GAY BEE HIS DAD ‘WAS A NEO-NAZI’

Such jobs were particularly cril to workers wh crimal rerds, which often ed potential employers to bypass them, Gay said.

"In 2002 Gay met Print Gee W.

ONE OF US: KEV GAY MA TRANSN OM SELLG SURANCE TO CHANGG LIV

Such rults help rne fai and rebuild muni, Gay also "make the se for return on vtment" for donors such as philanthropists Petway, Gary Chartrand and Wayne and Delor Barr Weaver, he said. Augte for formerly rcerated"Kev Gay’s remarkable acplishments durg his tenure at Operatn New Hope are a ttament to his visn and his termatn to help others, " Delor Barr Weaver said.

"Gay and the nonprof he found, she said, gave her "the blueprt to bee a succsful mother, grandparent and cizen. "Succsor wh empathy ready to serveThe closer Gay gets to his fal day at New Hope's Ma Street office, the more emotnal he gets about his he is nfint his succsor, Reggie Fullwood, who was promoted om chief operatns officer to print last year.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

" When he and the Operatn New Hope board ponred a succsn plan, they realized Fullwood, his 3½ years on the staff, has "shown we've got our guy right here … to hand the keys to, " he meetg program participants, Fullwood not only exhibs "huy and grace" but empathy, Gay said. When he meets new program participants, Fullwood tells them "by the way, I know how you're feelg" bee he was their uncerta posn once, Gay he tells them he overme his challeng and is "about to bee CEO.

"Not retirg om advotg for goodAfter partg the agency Thursday, Gay plans to travel for a few months wh his partner of 16 years, Jse Kraker. And both sentenc tend to be worse for ex-offenrs who are Black or Hispanic than their whe unterparts, Gay said. Mimum wage: Proposal to exempt felons om new mimum wage emed a no-go by Jacksonville NAACP and others stateKev Gay lumn: We mt nont the addictn of racism"In Ameri, we never let go, " he said.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

"Gay is passnate about addrsg such barriers.

Kev Spacey has addrsed his ntroversial 2017 statement which he me out as gay rponse to Anthony Rapp’s accatn of sexual misnduct. He said some members of his team disagreed wh the urse of actn but they took a vote and ultimately released a statement which Spacey revealed he was gay. “The gay muny had been prsurg me for a very long time about g out, ” he said.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Keep track of how much of Kev Gay’s work you have seen. Kev Spacey nied accatns that he ma unwanted sexual advanc toward actor Anthony Rapp when the latter was a teenager and said the reason he waed so long to e out as gay was bee of his father's neo-Nazi beliefs, ttimony om Spacey's first day on the stand Rapp's $40 ln sexual civil misnduct lawsu. In rponse to Rapp’s accatn that Spacey was a “d” for wag to e out as gay until after Rapp first publicly acced him 2017, Spacey said he “wasn't livg a lie.

Spacey said he was so hant to reveal that part of his intify bee growg up, his father “was a whe supremacist and a neo-Nazi, ” who “ed to yell at” Spacey when he began beg terted theater “at the ia that I might be gay, ” the Associated Prs reported.

Spacey’s lawyers alleged Rapp believ his reer suffered bee he is openly gay, and was annoyed that Spacey did not suffer the same ramifitns by hidg his sexualy, acrdg to Vulture. From 1983 to 1999, Kev Gay was a succsful surance salman.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

To feed his soul, the eply relig Gay would go on missn trips to far-flung rners of the, the Rev.

Davette Turk, his spirual mentor, "h me the solar plex, " Gay had e to her to talk about his plans for another missn trip. "What I want you to do is get your fancy ltle r and drive to the Northsi and tell me why you are gog to South Ameri and Ai, " Gay, who drove a BMW at the time, remembers Turk tellg was a jolt.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

"I had lived this town I love all my life, " Gay said. "That challenge led to Gay's cisn 1999 to lnch Operatn New Hope. "Man, was I naive about , " Gay uldn't keep ntractors on the job bee their tools were stolen.

Gay tried buyg a trailer to hoe the tools.

"I didn't unrstand the dynamic of the muny, " Gay he hired a uple of teens livg an abandoned hoe on Pearl Street and put them to work, promisg to tra them and pay them.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

Gay traed them and put them to 2002, Gay and the Rev. Garland Stt of Cy Center Mistri on Eighth Street, who was providg spirual unselg to Gay's employe, were ved to Washgton, D. But Gay also tablished a work of about 300 Jacksonville bs which have hired people traed by said the succs of Ready4Work, whichonlyhas a 5 percent recidivism rate, should get people to qutn a system of jtice which Ameri, wh 5 percent of the world's populatn, has 25 percent of the world's rcerated people.

'LOVE NEVER LI': IS KEV GAY? HERE'S WHY KATHERE LEFT HIM FOR HER EX ELIAS

"It sts $5, 000 to rehab and $25, 000 to rcerate, " said Gay, who recently was chosen to receive the Florida Bar Associatn Foundatn's Medal of Honor, s hight award for a non-lawyer.