Coll Mart is U.S. soccer's only openly gay male player, and he's workg to make the game more clive for future LGBTQ+ players - ESPN

Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE 'RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR'
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• ENGLAND'S ACH ENURAG GAY SOCCER PLAYERS TO E OUT
• LONGTIME SOCCER ACH AND EXECUTIVE FDS LIBERATN G OUT AS GAY
• COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS

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

As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' soccer remas one of the most popular sports around the world, very few players have been able to e out and enjoy a succsful reer afterwards. Gay players face prsure om teammat, ownership, ach, and fans over their are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them.

Atralian striker Andy Brennan me out as gay 2019, beg the first out gay Atralian male footballer.

He me out 2011, and won the seventh season of Swedish realy show Let's Dance, beg the first out gay person to w. He me out as gay 2022. His early clubs knew he was gay, and he me out durg his reer, beg the first pro footballer to do so.

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

In 2014, he beme Bra's hight-profile out, gay player, and was the first out, gay male player to play at Wembley. He later me out as gay and has sce spoken out about the difficulti queer players face. He me out as gay 2019.

The South Ain footballer beme Ai's first out, gay male footballer when he me out 2015. Rogers me out as gay 2013, beg the first out gay man to pete a top North Amerin pro sports league when he played for the LA Galaxy that same year. Later, he revealed he qu the sport as a rult of homophobia he faced when he me out.

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.

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

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. 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.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Getty ImagThe actor, who is bt known for playg Will Byers Netflix's credibly popular sci-fi thriller seri Stranger Thgs, publicly me out as gay a January the viral 'You know what never was? That ser' d on the popular app, Schnapp ptned the post: "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know.

Getty ImagThough the Grammy-wng rapper has been out as gay for years, January, X opened up on Twter about possibly intifyg as bisexual. Getty ImagThe Czech profsnal soccer player ma history Febary when he beme the first active ternatnal soccer player to publicly e out as gay.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

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In a sport like this where a majory of the fans beg the homophobic c*cksuckers they are, I didn’t see myself dog this durg this part of my reer. I wanted to be known for my skills and what I’ve dited the last 11 years of my life to not and not the 'bi UFC fighter' that I’m sure would jt be translated to 'gay UFC fighter.

GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE 'RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR'

-- 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.

It will be a glor month to be a gay fan. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.

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

Or that ‘gay’ was ed harmful ways by my peers throughout my teenage years. For the 14 year old who felt she had to wear a biki and the 16 year old who was ightened of beg a ‘gay footballer’. Out Soccer Player Josh Cavallo to Judge RuPl’s Drag Race Down UnrOut gay Atralian soccer player Josh Cavallo announced he will be a judge on the upg season of RuPl’s Drag Race Down Unr.

“As the first openly gay male profsnal football player, embracg your thentic self means eedom but for so many of the queer muny this isn’t as easy as you thk, ” Cavallo wrote his post.

BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY

“I’m a footballer and I’m gay. ”The followg January Cavallo spoke of the homophobic abe he received om fans at a game. “I’m not gog to pretend I didn’t see or hear the homophobic abe at the game last night, ” Cavallo wrote the post.

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.

As wh a uple of proment unmarried senators, Amerins have long spected that soccer might be gay. On Monday, the US men’s natnal team unveiled a resign to the team’s logo that replac red strip the crt wh the rabow lors of the gay pri flag. Soccer’s cisn to e out of the closet ahead of the World Cup, and to live as s thentic self, was met wh shgs of “well, obvly” and “I always thought soccer might be gay sce that time I ught soccer tryg on my make-up and lipsyncg to Donna Summer.

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

The empty, banal, gture-signalg allegiance to rporate neoliberale is tend to reassure a ty set of LGBT activists who qutn the league’s participatn the upg FIFA World Cup Qatar, a untry where homosexualy is illegal.

The team, however, was quick to note the gay crt won’t be worn on the field but stead is displayed somewhere on their base Doha. Wtern pk shirts prefer to not acknowledge areas of the world where actual, horrifyg, opprsn agast homosexuals occurs, namely the Middle East.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Some lefti om an earlier era of activism attempted, to ltle fanfare, to draw attentn to the plight of gays Qatar.

In October, Brish gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, a boomer, went to Qatar to ffle some feathers ahead of the World Cup. Forty-ne mut seems que genero, nsirg what would have happened to him Iran or Afghanistan where, sce the Taliban was restated by Print Bin last year, gay people have been hunted and murred routely, after a twenty-year reprieve durg the Amerin occupatn. 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. Atralian soccer player Josh Cavallo me out October 2021 and beme the first top-flight profsnal soccer player to intify as then, Cavallo has unfortunately faced a lot of obstacl and even got ath threats om homophobic soccer fans who weren't pleased by his g out.

ENGLAND'S ACH ENURAG GAY SOCCER PLAYERS TO E OUT

"In recent tim, Cavallo spoke out agast the 2022 World Cup beg held Qatar - a untry where beg gay is still illegal.

He also directly addrsed David Beckham's support of the World Cup and his silence regard to LGBTQ+ rights appears that Cavallo wants to e his platform as an out gay soccer player to make chang wh the sport. 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.

LONGTIME SOCCER ACH AND EXECUTIVE FDS LIBERATN 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. Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so. I'm a footballer and I'm gay.

"He ntued: "Growg up I always felt the need to hi myself, you know, bee I was ashamed, and ashamed I'll never be able to do what I love and be gay. In a September terview wh USA Today, 25-year-old mor league baseball player beme the only active baseball profsnal to be out as gay!

Natnal Hockey League prospect Le Prokop me out as gay July, the first active player the league to e out. "I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay, " he wrote a heartfelt msage on social media.

COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS

The 28-year-old Natnal Football League player and Rairs fensive leman ma history when he me out as gay on Instagram durg Pri Month, beg the first veteran NFL player to e out as gay while signed to a regular-season ntract. I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know.

"He wanted everyone to know he was "still the same Colton everybody met on TV" and is "proud to be gay. Hiltz had prevly e out as gay while llege and has been a visible and affirmg prence for gay athlet the past.