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• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
• THIS GAY BOXER SAYS WNG AN OLYMPIC MEDAL GAVE HER THE STRENGTH TO E OUT
• GAY BOXER ORLANDO CZ STGGLED WH G OUT
• GAY BOXER PROPOS TO BOYIEND AFTER WNG HIS FIRST MATCH
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ORLANDO CZ BE FIRST PROFSNAL BOXER TO E OUT AS GAY
• THIS GAY BOXER FACED ATH TWICE, AND ME OUT SWGG ON THE OTHER SI
• ORLANDO CZ: 'I'M GAY, BUT I'M ALSO A BOXER. THIS IS MY TIME'
• BOXG-ITALIAN BOXER TTA OUT AS GAY AFTER OLYMPIC SUCCS
• BOXER YAF MACK HOSTS 'COMG OUT' PARTY ... AT FAMED L.A. GAY BAR
• ITALIAN BOXER TTA OUT AS GAY AFTER OLYMPIC SUCCS
• WHAT ’S LIKE BEG AN OPENLY GAY BOXER, 3 TERRIBLE TWEETS

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

The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U. While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U.

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. -- 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.

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO 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. The assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars has bee the first male ach ever the NFL -- or Amerin men's pro sports altogether -- to publicly e out as gay.

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

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Major profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay. Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward.

Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. He was gay and like all boxers, at all levels, he was judged on whether he uld fight and not on his sexual preferenc; the Pounr, who wore pk, was a nice guy but not much of a fighter and nobody held that agast Saturday Las Vegas, Orlando Cz, which is his real name, will bee the first openly gay boxer to w a world tle if he n overe the odds and beat Orlando Salido for the vant WBO featherweight tle. Cz announced he was gay last year, never lost his promoter, never lost his rankg and never lost a sgle iend om si the ugly bs of boxg.

"Cz fought for Puerto Ri at the Sydney Olympics 2000 and has been a ge ntenr for a uple of years and gay for a lot longer. "I'm a boxer first, I want to be a world champn and remembered that way and not as a gay boxer, " he the Neti, Christy Mart, another boxg pneer, said somethg siar about women the sport: "I fight for Christy Mart and not for women's rights to box. " Mart, who has sce survived a murr attempt when her hband shot and knifed her, is now retired and volved a gay relatnship.

"Boxg n be a macho sport and I have heard some gay slurs, " says Cz. "However, Cz, who is 32, is not a mpaigner for gay rights jt yet and he has polely refed all attempts to csa on behalf of other gay athlet, men like him stgglg to e to terms wh tellg the people they pete wh, or for, that they are gay.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

However, private he has obvly spoken to other boxers facg the same dilemma he did last has received a lot of media attentn this week (Getty) (Getty Imag)"Perhaps there are other gay boxers and perhaps they are too sred to say anythg, " Cz says. " Hopefully, there will not be a reverse wch-hunt boxg, like there is other sports, where people on the outsi bee fixated on outg more gay athlet; the people boxg simply don't re.

ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS

"Gay, so what? " All boxers world tle fights have to unrgo and pass a route HIV tt and plenty, none of whom said they were gay, have failed the has dited Saturday's fight to Ee Griffh, one of the greatt boxers history, who died this summer after admtg late his life that he had slept wh both men and women.

He was om a time when homosexuals were not lled "gay" and he hated the word once was ed to scribe him when he fally end three s of speculatn.

The Cuban never revered and died a few days emerged later that Paret had lled Griffh a marin, the Spanish word for homosexual, and had touched him appropriately when the pair weighed for the fight; Paret was naked at the time, which is not unmon for a tle fight.

THIS GAY BOXER SAYS WNG AN OLYMPIC MEDAL GAVE HER THE STRENGTH TO E OUT

There has always been a bate about whether Paret meant or was jt sayg to get unr Griffh's sk; Griffh told me that Paret had been ma to say , but that was heartfelt and meant, which is good enough for late great Ee Griffh me out after he retired (Getty) (Getty Imag)Griffh had stggled wh his sexualy throughout his reer and retirement and 1992 was left for ad after five thugs on a "fag-bashg" rampage attacked him wh baseball bats outsi a gay club New York. "This fight is for Ee bee he never had the backg and support that I have had, " add Saturday Cz starts as a heavy unrdog agast former champn Salido but will still leave the rg as the first openly gay male boxer to fight for a world tle.

He proposed to Manuel on Facebook earlier this year and, has to be said, if he was thkg of makg the transn to gay fighter low-key, then planng a same-sex marriage was a bold move.

Cz was also a first-year ductee to the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame Chigo this summer, alongsi Greg Louganis and Marta n also really fight and the thls bs of boxg, a sport that has not really changed 150 years, that is all that matters; mak no difference if you are black, whe, gay, straight, male, female, nice, unpleasant, Christian, Mlim, ugly or handsome, as long as you have guts and n have a fight. I thk that is pretty rehg and Ee would be very and proud: Gay sportspeopleJason Colls Sce g out as gay, US basketball player has been unable to fd an NBA Rogers Former Leeds and Stevenage footballer who currently plays for LA Walsh and Helen Richardson GB Olympic hockey players who married Hysen First active footballer to e out sce Jt Fashanu.

GAY BOXER ORLANDO CZ STGGLED WH G OUT

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Has his first fight sce announcement on FridayFirst active boxer to publicly e outHas gaed support the gay munyKISSIMMEE, Fla. — For so many years, Puerto Rin featherweight Orlando Cz stggled wh nflictg emotns regardg his place as a gay man the tradnally mascule, btal and often-remorsels enavor that is profsnal boxg. "I was aaid I uld be discrimated agast bee there is a lot of discrimatn agast the gay muny.

''Two weeks ago, the 31-year-old boxer beme the first active pro fighter to publicly clare that he was gay. In 2005, Ee Griffh, the Hall of Fame former world welterweight and middleweight champn, revealed his homosexualy three s after his fal 's story has generated world-wi media attentn for the ge tle ntenr and journeyman.

GAY BOXER PROPOS TO BOYIEND AFTER WNG HIS FIRST MATCH

''Cz's publicly issued statement that he is a "proud gay man'' was a rare acknowledgement and unprecented among active pro athlet major sports. "Osr asked me before the fight, 'Are you gog to tell people you are gay?

''While Cz said his cisn to e out has been well received om fay and iends, pl the gay and lbian muni, he scribed a recent overt act of discrimatn that sadned him.

''Cz said he is unncerned about potential tnts om fans — or future opponents tryg to distract him wh homophobic, Cz's Friday opponent, said he don't re about his challenger's sexual preference. "I have to w whether he is gay or not, '' he said.

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

He said she spected he was gay even though he said, "I ed to like girls. "When I fish boxg, '' he add, "I want people to remember me: 'Orlando Cz was gay — and he was a good boxer and a good guy.

Ash had prevly studied the Israeli self-fense martial art of Krav Maga as a way to fend himself om would-be homophob. Ash told Gay Star News:. In a March 2019 personal blog post, Ash explaed why he had taken up boxg as a gay men:.

ORLANDO CZ BE FIRST PROFSNAL BOXER TO E OUT AS GAY

When Ash first me out, he says he felt like he didn’t f to the gay muny eher, but as he began boxg, he wrote, “I started sleepg better.

Ash told Gay Star News that he has never experienced any homophobia the world of boxg. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

Featherweight boxer Orlando Cz has bee the first big-time active profsnal boxer to e out as gay. I have always been and always will be a proud gay man.

THIS GAY BOXER FACED ATH TWICE, AND ME OUT SWGG ON THE OTHER SI

Endorsement als are lucrative, and for someone whose e om those als and wng fights, he has more to lose than many other gay pro athlet.

Through his journey boxg, Stark has e to anize the World Gay Boxg Champnships (WGBC), the world’s first LGBTQI+ boxg tournament, which will be held Sydney 2023. As well as troducg the sport to a whole new dience, Stark hop that the WGBC n “dispt homophobia, transphobia, hatred sport.

“And I thk that’s where my whole spir of clivy om – bee of what other people have achieved and for me, my anizatn, we’re very much around the grassroots and amatr level, but we want to dispt homophobia, transphobia, hatred sport. He remembers llg himself “the future world gay boxg champn” as a joke.

ORLANDO CZ: 'I'M GAY, BUT I'M ALSO A BOXER. THIS IS MY TIME'

He did have dreams of boxg at the 2022 Gay Gam, but the sport was elimated om the upg gam – postponed until 2023 bee of the ronavis panmic.

BOXG-ITALIAN BOXER TTA OUT AS GAY AFTER OLYMPIC SUCCS

“There have been very few out profsnal gay male boxers who have won major champnships, ” he explaed. Like the Bgham Cup – a biennial, ternatnal, non-profsnal, gay gby unn tournament – he hop that the WGBC n enurage young members of the LGBTQI+ muny wh an tert boxg to try the sport.

But as well as enuragg engagement wh the sweet science, Stark hop he n have an effect on stoppg homophobia and transphobia sport. Acrdg to one study, 80 percent of the more than 12, 000 participants om across the world have wnsed or experienced homophobia sports. The study also found that 78 percent of the participants believed that an openly gay person would not be very safe as a spectator at a sportg event.

BOXER YAF MACK HOSTS 'COMG OUT' PARTY ... AT FAMED L.A. GAY BAR

“The reason I set up the anizatn, I want [homophobia, transphobia, etc. On this week’s edn of Outsports’ “The Sports Kiki, ” I spoke wh Stark about his spirg journey, and visn for his groundbreakg event, the World Gay Boxg Champnships.

That’s the kd of experience Stark wants to provi 200-some-odd athlet at the World Gay Boxg Champnships. Why don’t I create an anizatn lled the World Gay Boxg Champnships and hold a tournament for the LGBTQIA+ muny and our alli, and really dispt homophobia, transphobia, and brg the boxg muny together for the love of the sport.

"There are only four gay bars Buffalo, " Cz said, swchg om Spanish to English, "and they're not so excg. "Cz lghed bee, a year after g out as boxg's first publicly gay fighter, he uld afford to be open.

ITALIAN BOXER TTA OUT AS GAY AFTER OLYMPIC SUCCS

The ia of a gay boxer, which he troduced so lmly last October, has been accepted. Yet his dreamier notn – of beg the world's first gay world champn – would brg Cz the money and rpect he has long, or Orlando, as De León lls his 32-year-old fighter, sed when I disappeared to the traer's kchen soon after we arrived.

WHAT ’S LIKE BEG AN OPENLY GAY BOXER, 3 TERRIBLE TWEETS

He is the same age as Cz but has had 53 fights – 30 more than the Puerto Rin whose rerd of 20 ws, a draw and two feats was shadowed by a ght battle over his took years for Cz to fd the urage to make history as a gay fighter. They wonr if a gay man n w a world tle. He sks to a chair, the ms of boxg sho and bags strewn around him, remblg a grty old fighter rather than a gay ns down his sunken face like tears.

Last October, durg his first newspaper terview as a gay fighter, Cz told me how he ed to cry wh his mother, Domga.

He even impli that Salido, as a Mexin, might be troubled by facg a gay fighter. He will have his md that he's fightg a homosexual for the world tle.