Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength ach, out as gay

Contents:

• JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?
• HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE MY BIG GAY JEWISH HAIR
• ON BEG BLACK, GAY, AND JEWISH—AND FDG RADIL SELF-LOVE
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• THE GREAT GAY-JEWISH POETRY BRAWL OF 1829
• WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A BLACK, GAY, PROFSNAL JEW
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?

The pair talk about livg and travelg together, and a recent episo revealed they would be vatng on Fire Island, which has a famo gay scene, wh proment gay Jewish okbook thor Jake Cohen. And they don’t need gay material — they need the material for this dience. The Variety article was born of Rosenfeld’s epeng belief that ’s possible to merge his Orthodox and gay inti more publicly — somethg that he has long done as a ngregant and sometim-ntor at the Morn Orthodox synagogue he attends the East Village.

And somehow, gays have been attracted to e to this synagogue, ” he said.

“We have a whole group of gay people and we have a whole group of trans people wele.

HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE MY BIG GAY JEWISH HAIR

For Rosenfeld, there’s no tensn between Jewish observance and beg gay — although his articulatn of why reveals an awarens of the pa that others might feel tryg. “Beg gay, you n keep Shabbos, you n keep kosher, you n keep anythg you want to do, ” he said. When Rosenfeld shared the Variety article on his Instagram page, the vast majory of the nearly 800 ments left by fans and iends showed support for his public embrace of his gay inty.

“It’s amazg that you announce that you are gay, ” one fan wrote. “You are an example to all the Jews stgglg wh their gayns. “I n’t believe you are gay, ” wrote one person.

Sce he has started addg gay material to his repertoire, his dienc have been creasgly LGBTQ, like at some of the “Holidazed” shows he performed December at Sony Hall New York. Still, he noted, “onstage, I’m more Jewish than I am gay. They also said they were surprised by how weled they felt as a gay uple at a Republin event, and remarked on how many of the polil figur and donors they met were exced to show them pictur of all the other gay upl they knew.

ON BEG BLACK, GAY, AND JEWISH—AND FDG RADIL SELF-LOVE

Schneerson nsired homosexualy a s and advoted for Jews to choose not to yield to homosexual urg. “Some people will see this as a kd of affirmative step that you don’t have to abandon your relig inty bee you’re gay. Jab Bixenman’s short film Adam explor how one gay man prents both his Jewish and gay inti through his lh, almost satirilly curly hair.

In the vio I talk about g my hair to appear as gay and Jewish as possible the hop of buildg a queer Jewish muny around me.

This year has been wns to some hio anti-semism and homophobia, of which there are apologists at the hight level of office.

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

I thk that a lot of the kids uld kd of sense that I might be gay. When I me out of the closet my twenti, I saw myself as a Jewish gay man. And wasn't until recently that I had to e to terms wh beg a Black, gay, Jewish man Ameri.

Today, I n fally embrace all the var parts of myself I nta: my Jewish inty, my gay inty, and my Black inty. 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. The five-foot-four, gay Jewish man wh red, wavy hair was a nstant character the glory days of my mother before I was born, before she met my father. The three of them—Neil, Karl, and my mother—would go out every weekend and dance at Boston’s then ebbg diss, buzzg wh the tun of the Gloria Gaynor, Grace Jon, and Lou Rawls and waftg wh the smell of sweaty chemil-drenched polyter.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

My mother would tell me how they’d both lgh and reil at the open vasele ntaers the pharmacy aisl across the street om Boston’s Mass General, a hub for gay cisg back then.

Neil’s onle prence was almost nonexistent, except he did have one prt onle, of Duane Michals, another gay photographer (only a famo one). The prt was on display at New York’s Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art. This was a time when gay men were battlg agast the AIDS crisis, when bodi would wher away and, the midst of everythg, gym culture was boomg.

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

“I was gay Jewish kid Sprgfield, Mass—one of the very few, ” Neil said. He arrived New York Cy the summer of 1981, around a month after the New York Tim published a ty article on July 3 on Page A20, tled “Rare Cancer Seen 41 Homosexuals.

” The article talks about the early panic of the AIDS epimic and s spread gay hubs like San Francis and New York Cy.

THE GREAT GAY-JEWISH POETRY BRAWL OF 1829

There was talk about the appearance among homosexual men of s of Kaposi’s sara, a rare sk ncer that rears self spots and lns that typilly only affected olr men of Jewish or Mederranean scent. “When I moved here, people would ask, ‘Did you hear about this gay ncer thg? “The gay men are startg to die off, and no one knows why.

An image of two men holdg hands wh bandanas, Courty of Neil Mallm RobertsNeil kicked off his reer shootg for lol newspapers, like the gay magaze Christopher Street and the New York Native, a biweekly gay newspaper. He also photographed lots of famo people wh the gay muny.

Neil hasn’t taken a picture years; he had to sell his photography are no statistics currently on how many elr gay homels people there are New York or the Uned Stat. Many the olr baby boomer gay muny who have survived the AIDS epimic lead a lonely existence. He wrote rponse to lls at the time to ncel the sodomy law (which was ultimately ncelled only 1988, thanks to Shulam Aloni) I, as an Orthodox Rabbi, Support Legalizg Same-sex Marriage We Sharpened the Assailant's Knife In Their Own Words Livneh was neher ultra-Orthodox nor Orthodox, but rather a Jewish natnalist, yet his ma argument was that homosexualy is foreign to Judaism, nstut a foreign fluence by generate Wtern culture and should be the op-ed he claimed that for hundreds of years Jews the Diaspora succeed prervg their muni om those “sexual perversns, ” or as he phrased : “It is totally absurd to have suffered for many generatns the Diaspora, while strictly prervg, nurturg and refg the heterosexual prciple, only to return to the Land of Israel and renew the ‘gentil’ abomatn’ here.

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A BLACK, GAY, PROFSNAL JEW

”The history of homophobia fact prov that Livneh’s claim (which many Jews have upheld and still uphold to this day) is, if anythg, a “foreign fluence. ” Throughout the morn perd natnalist homophob have claimed that homosexualy is nothg but a generative foreign cultural fluence on members of their people. The English nsired homosexualy a Bulgarian or French pathology.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

For their part, the French nsired an English phenomenon: As late as 1991, French Prime Mister dh Crson said that homosexualy belongs to “the Anglo-Saxon tradn” and is foreign to the French Lat culture.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Israeli Print Ezer Weizmann, as is well-remembered, also said that there was homosexualy the Brish army but not the Palmach pre-state ia. Many European natns intified gays as “Turks, ” while the Turks themselv ll gays “Persians. ”In general, there is a perceptn that homosexualy is a vice origatg the East.

Th the Nazis charged sexologist and gay rights activist Magn Hirschfeld that as a Jew he “brought the oriental vice to Germany. ”In our day, natnalists Rsia and var untri Ai are claimg that homosexualy is a Wtern fluence that mt be batted.

Natnalism and chvism always bear hatred of the other – be a Jew, a gay or any foreigner.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Jesalem Gay Pri Para, E SalmanIn any se, the historil facts dite that Livneh and his ilk were and are mistaken. ”Love thy fellow man as thyself – but reallyDurg the past 100 years, some Jewish thkers set themselv a more amb aim: to prove that homosexualy is an tegral part of the history of the Jewish people and Jewish tradn.

In the 1970s he was a pneer of the mpaign to ncel the prohibn on homosexualy Germany (Paragraph 175) the prohibn on homosexualy often relied on the prohibn Levic 18, Schoeps wanted to make clear the ntext which this prohibn was promulgated. He might have been nsired a kd of msiah of the homoerotic gospel among the Jewish people had his unual kabbalistic theory not been silenced and phed to the his book “The Erotics of Kabbala” published 1923, Langer argued that “brotherly love, ” i.

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

” Had he not died before his time, he might have succeed spreadg the ia Israel that Judaism and homosexualy are not mutually exclive, but rather are nnected a plex way. The LGBT liberatn movement appeared only the 1970s, as an Amerin-style, secular, liberal is not necsary to accept the theori propound by Laner, Schoeps and others like them, but their attempts to create a Jewish homosexualy are particularly relevant now. In face of the murro vlence that vok Jewish jtifitns, there is no reason to make do wh jt allowg gays to live.

It should be argued that homosexual passn and s realizatn nstute a layer Judaism self. ​The Jewish Gay and Lbian Group (JGLG) was found 1972 when a small advert Gay News attracted the astonishg total of 190 people to a public meetg lled to set up the new anisatn. Our membership is open to Jewish men and women who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr cludg people om many different backgrounds.

We are affiliated to the World Congrs of Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Jews and work llaboratively wh other anisatns to ensure a breadth of opportuni for the Jewish LGBT a Jewish Gay and Lbian Group? It n be reassurg to meet people wh siar shared hope you will look upon JGLG as an alternative fay for Jewish lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenr, their lovers, iends and relatns, and look forward to welg you to our events.