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Contents:

• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• DRAG QUEENS CHANTG ‘WE’RE G FOR YOUR KIDS’ HURT GAY RIGHTS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• BILLS LIKE 'DON'T SAY GAY' HURT LGBTQ YOUTH ALREADY AT HIGH RISK OF SUICI
• HOW FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW ULD HARM CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH

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

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JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U. Kev Maxen me out as gay an terview wh Outsports.

In recent years, such blunt, outrageo rhetoric om the gay left has bee pretty faiar.

Two years ago, the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos released a YouTube vio which 81 of s members sang a song wh the rea: “We’ll nvert your children / Happens b by b. Groups like the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos once played an important role givg gay Amerins a posive image. The ia of gay people as more or ls ordary people next door was ccial helpg w popular support for gay equaly, gays the ary, and, ultimately, same-sex marriage.

DRAG QUEENS CHANTG ‘WE’RE G FOR YOUR KIDS’ HURT GAY RIGHTS

To ce the tle of my 1993 book, most gay Amerins jt wanted “A Place at the Table. The tle of Andrew Sullivan’s 1995 book ma the same pot: gay people were, all all, “Virtually Normal. Our books were part of a rponse by the gay mastream to a self-styled “gay-rights movement” that, n by far-left iologu, had all too often promoted the ia of gays as the cuttg edge of a csa to overthrow every pillar of Amerin society: palism, relign, the ary, the fay.

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

Nothg uld have been more unte to the realy of ordary gay Amerins’ liv or more damagg to the prospects for their equaly. They’d hijacked the fate of gay Amerins to ph their own utopian socialist agenda. When Sullivan and I appeared on Charlie Rose’s show 1994, to memorate the 25th anniversary of the morn gay-rights movement, one of the other guts, a radil lbian, ma this agenda clear.

Whatever they may say nowadays, the gay left hated the ia of same-sex marriage. Those of who supported weren’t jt cricized by right-wg fenrs of tradnal wedlock; we were fiercely attacked by “queers” – left-wg gays who cherished their margaly – for wantg to buy to a “heterosexual stutn.

In the end, fortunately, our si won – bee as a tsunami of gays me out of the closet the 1990s and afterwards, beme clear that those of who jt wanted to live normal liv were very much the majory.

GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG

On the ntrary, before long a large majory of Amerins said they were okay wh gay marriage. The wispread and relatively quick acceptance of gay marriage was a ttament to Amerins’ nate sense of fairns, of equaly before the law, of rpect for difference. But a ty – and unreprentative – mory of gays obvly didn’t feel gratu.

That small sad segment of the gay populatn who are termed to be clowns, to make mischief, and to get easy thrills by terrifyg nice people, they’re out there now, givg an ugly name to the overwhelmg majory of cent gay Amerins who stggled for so long – and wh digny and patience and sensivy – to w equaly and rpect.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

And I know one thg: if anybody is upset more by this sishow than straight parents, ’s gay people who feel that their honorable movement for equal rights has been shanghaied by a gang of psychologilly disturbed egomaniacs. Fathers many fai are myster, distant, timidatg figur—even more so for boys wh homosexual attractns. They are the fay torchbearers of manls, and, as mal young and old know, homosexualy is nsired the dread oppose of masculy.

BILLS LIKE 'DON'T SAY GAY' HURT LGBTQ YOUTH ALREADY AT HIGH RISK OF SUICI

Acrdg to Michael Kimmel, a soclogist and expert on male sex rol, men monstrate their masculy by repudiatg all that is feme and monstratg an ever-ready willgns to engage sexual terurse wh women whenever the opportuny aris- a nutshell, to prove they are not gay. To be gay is to be powerls, weak, unable to break ee om Mommy, and the characteristics are patible wh real manls.

Inially, the assertn that homophobia plays center stage men's mascule self-ncept may seem rather extreme. " "That's so gay. A boy growg to a gay man will get the msage loud and clear that he is weak, dirty, and, perhaps worst of all, ls than a man.

HOW FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW ULD HARM CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH

Th is no wonr that the boys the study for my book: Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child, relled beg so reactive and fearful of the rpons of their fathers—the very people who were expectg them to receive and rry the torch of masculy. He would ll gay people nam and stuff. We mt remember that fathers and sons live the same world—one that teach boys that homosexualy is patible wh real masculy and, by associatn, full male adulthood.

Fathers too were raised to not only look down upon homosexualy, but to fear themselv. Th havg a gay son might feel particularly shameful for a father, as he may believe is an dictment of his own masculy.