Jaguars strength ach Kev Maxen out as gay

Contents:

• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• NFL ACH OUT AS GAY HISTORIC MOMENT AMERIN SPORTS
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
• ATHLET WHO ARE GAY
• GAY AT THE GAM: 7 UNFETTABLE MOMENTS
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

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, a strength ach for the NFL anchise the Jacksonville Jaguars, has publicly e out as gay a landmark moment Amerin men's profsnal sportsJacksonville Jaguars strength ach Kev Maxen (R) has publicly e out as gayJacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen has ma history by beg the first active NFL ach to publicly e out as gay. (Jam Gilbert/Getty Imag)Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength ach Kev Maxen me out publicly as gay Thursday, which mak him the first known openly gay male ach the NFL and all of Amerin men’s profsnal joed the Jaguars’ strength and ndng staff last season.

Tampa Bay Bucneers fensive end Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player when he me out 2021, when he was wh the Las Vegas Rairs. Former San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers ma history as both the first woman and first openly gay ach a Super Bowl was a lebacker at Wtern Connecticut State, a Divisn III program. Figure skatg has long been seen as a safe haven for gay men, but no publicly out skaters peted at a Gam until PyeongChang 2018, when Adam Rippon, Eric Radford and Jorik Hendrickx led the way that sport.

NFL ACH OUT AS GAY HISTORIC MOMENT AMERIN SPORTS

Kenworthy did not medal the eki sloptyle event, but NBC meras beamed imag of him and Wilkas sharg their affectn once Kenworthy was done petg, a moment the out Amerin said at the time was powerful for many reasons: “I thk that the only way to really change perceptns, break down homophobia, break down barriers is through reprentatn, ” he said. “That’s fely not somethg I had as a kid: I fely didn’t see a gay athlete at the Olympics kissg their boyiend and I thk that if I had would have ma a lot easier for me, so hopefully did that for other people.

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

While queer historians have reported on plenty of closeted gay athlet to pete at an Olympics, not one was on rerd as beg out until Seoul 1988, when Amerin Robert Dover, an equtrian athlete, beme the first. Havg not been out at his but Gam Los Angel 1984, Dover ma the choice to e out prr to 1988 as the AIDS epimic ripped through the queer muny: “I ma a statement that I was gay, ” Dover said plaly.

We’re not sure why other people watch sports, but we n tell you why we do: For those special moments when players are ught homoerotic posns. 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. "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! 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.

WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

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. Hiltz had prevly e out as gay while llege and has been a visible and affirmg prence for gay athlet the past. Corey Walsh, the 27-year-old pro BMX rir and Vans spokperson, said he isn't normally the type of person to "let people " on his personal life, but felt was important to e out as gay a March Instagram post bee "there are a lot of people still stgglg wh the same suatns" and he "jt wanted to let people know that they are not alone.

Champn long track speedskater Conor McDermott-Mostowy never hid beg gay om his fay, iends, and fellow athlet, but he also wasn't one to rate his locker wh rabow Pri flags eher. He ially feared negative stereotyp about gay male athlet but threw those ncerns asi after his two-tle performance at the U. This year we’ve seen an unprecented number of gay athlet e out of the closet, and we’ve seen even more straight athlet stand up agast homophobia.

ATHLET WHO ARE GAY

" There were certaly amazg gay and lbian athlet before the Stonewall rts 1969, but there wasn’t a ph for gay equaly sports until after that fateful day New York Cy. We uld not have veloped the list whout the help of several people who dug ep to their archiv for many of the moments: Gay wrtlg gu Gene Dermody; Longtime gay-sports advote and current head of the GLSEN Sports Project Pat Griff; Author and high school soccer ach Dan Woog; and thor Patricia Nell Warren, who has wrten about the history of gay athlet for Outsports for years.

1) Dave Kopay out / 1975 / football2) Marta Navratilova out / 1981 / tennis 3) Billie Jean Kg outed / 1981 / tennis 4) Publitn of 'The Front Runner' / 1974 / books 5) First Gay Gam / 1982 / var sports 6) Corey Johnson's story is told / 2000 / football 7) Billy Bean outt / baseball / 1999 8. ) John Rocker spews homophobia to Sports Illtrated / 1999 / baseball 9) First gay softball world seri / 1977 / softball 10) Matthew Mcham ws divg gold / 2008 / divg 11) Ian Roberts out / 1995 / gby 12) Renee Richards ws right to play U.

GAY AT THE GAM: 7 UNFETTABLE MOMENTS

Open / 1977 / tennis 13) Magic Johnson announc he has HIV / 1991 / basketball 14) Greg Louganis out / 1994 / divg 15) John Amaechi out / 2007 / basketball 16) Esera Tuaolo out / 2002 / football 17) Brendan Burke pass away / 2010 / hockey 18) Gareth Thomas out / 2009 / gby19) ESPN airs 'World of the gay athlete'' / 1998 / media20) NCLR iat sports project / 2001 / sports 21) Tim Hardaway tells rad host, 'I hate gay people'' / 2007 / basketball 22) IOC allows trans athlet to pete / 2004 / Olympics 23) Jt Fashanu ms suici / 1998 / soccer 24) Out John Curry ws world figure skatg tle / 1976 / figure skatg 25) Mike Piazza announc he's straight / 2002 / baseball 26) Umpire Dave Pallone fired by MLB / 1988 / baseball 27) Intersex Spanish hurdler banned om track / 1986 / track & field 28) Sheryl Swoop out / 2005 / basketball 29) Majory of pro athlet would wele gay teammate / 2006 / sports 30) 11 out athlet at Athens Summer Olympics / 2004 / Olympics 31) NBC airs 'He's here, he's Weir' / 2006 / Olympics 32) Brendan Lemon reveals MLB boyiend / 2001 / baseball 33) Mark Bgham killed Sept. 11 attacks / 2001 / gby 34) Canadian volleyball ach Betty Baxter fired / 1982 / volleyball 35) First gay roo / 1976 / roo 36) Jeremy Shockey says he don't want gay teammate / 2002 / NFL 37) Eric Anrson's nner attacked / 1996 / cross-untry 38) Gay Gam III Vanuver is first outsi San Francis / 1990 / Gay Gam 39) ESPN hir LZ Granrson / 2004 / sports media 40) John Damien su over dismissal / 1975 / horse racg 41) The foundg of the Internatnal Gay Bowlg Org. / 1980 / bowlg 42) Lana Lawls ws right to play on LPGA Tour / 2010 / golf 43) Brian Sims tells his story / 2009 / llege football 44) Kye Allums out / 2010 / llege basketball 45) Hudson Taylor openly supports gay rights / 2010 / wrtlg 46) NBA f Kobe Bryant $100k / 2011 / NBA 47) Rene Portland leav Penn State / 2007 / llege basketball 48) Figure skater Andrej Nepela named Slovakia athlete of the century / 2000 / figure skatg 49) IOC ends mandatory genr ttg / 1999 / Olympics 50) Rick Welts out / 2011 / NBA51) Amelie Mrmo ws Wimbledon / 2006 / tennis52) Roger Brigham out to general manager / 1982 / sports reportg53) Kirk Walker be only male D.

1 head ach / 2007 / softball54) Glenn Burke out / 1993 / baseball55) 'Ball Four' TV show clus gay ballplayer / 1976 / baseball 56) Supreme Court l agast 'Gay Olympic Gam' / 1987 / var sports 57) Bodybuilr Bob Paris out / 1989 / Bodybuildg 58) Christe Daniels out as transgenred sportswrer / 2007 / media 59) Diana Nyad swims om Bimi to Florida / 1979 / swimmg 60) Stanley Cup part of Chigo's gay pri para / 2010 / NHL 61) Terrell Owens impli Jeff Garcia is gay / 2004 / NFL 62) CBC airs "The Last Closet"/ 1993/media 63) NCAA workshop on sexual orientatn / 2003 / var sports 64) Bill Konigsberg out at ESPN / 2001 / media65) Caster Semenya asked to unrgo genr tt / 2009 / track & field 66) Formatn of Penn's Athlet & Alli PATH / 2003 / var sports 67) Homophobic chants at Brazil volleyball match / 2011 / volleyball 68) NCAA chief enurag embrace of sexual orientatn 69) Ed Gallagher surviv suici attempt / 1985 / football 70) World Outgam spls om Gay Gam / 2003 / var sports 71) Anton Hysen out/ 2011 / soccer 72) Sean Avery leads New York gay marriage charge / 2011 / hockey73) Steven Davis is first ternatnal cricketer to e out / 2011 / cricket 74) Irish hurlg star Donal Óg Cack out / 2009 / hurlg 75) 'Take Me Out' hs Broadway / 2003 / baseball 76) San Francis Giants say 'It Gets Better' / 2011 / baseball77) First Trans Stunt-Athlete thk tank / 2009 / var sports 78) NAGAAA sued over straight-athlete lim / 2010 / softball 79) Canadian Olympian Mark Tewksbury out / 1998 / swimmg 80) Sherri Murrell is first out Div.

1 basketball ach / 2009 / basketball 81) Brendan Burke out / 2009 / hockey 82) Gay and Lbian Athletics Foundatn nference / 2003 / var sports 83) Greg Congdon outed / 1998 / football 84) Lbian uple ejected om Dodgers Stadium for kissg / 2000 / baseball 85) First EuroGam held / 1992 / var sports 86) Former NFL player Roy Simmons out on 'Donahue' / 1992 / football 87) Jen Harris su Penn State / 2005 / basketball88) Nong Toom ws first petive match / 1998 / kickboxg89) Washgton be first state to adopt trans high school athlete policy / 2008 / var sports90) Mike Mka named athletic director at Oberl College / 1998 / var sports91) Robert Dover elected pta of U. Equtrian team / 2000 / equtrian92) Pat Griff publish 'Strong Women, Deep Closets' / 1998 / var sports93) David Pichler, Patrick Jefey are out divers at '96 Olympics / 1996 / divg94) Openly gay Rudy Galdo ws U. It was December 1975 and he had read an article the Washgton Star newspaper that alt wh the difficulti of beg a homosexual sports.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

” Kopay, 69, told me last week about reactn to the Star story, when I told him he was Outsports’ No 1 gay sports moment. The book has spired and forted gays and lbians for 34 years (Billie Jean Kg told Kopay how much the book helped her). This happened right before the start of one season wh Washgton, wh the two of them stayg over at the hoe of Washgton PR man Joe Blair, himself gay.

It meant a lot to him that this school honored an openly gay alum, and he was moved to tears as he reunted beg warmly greeted by not only past graduat but current stunts and their parents.

When me to pickg the top moment, though, our experts were unanimo – was Dave Kopay, the most signifint gay athlete morn history. But still: Sam ma history, and Augt 2014, he showed an openly gay man n succeed at the NFL level — and mh wh his teammat.