Gay Baseball Pro Calls Out 'Hate' After Rays Pri Uniform Controversy

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• BOSTON GAY SPORTS BAR — ‘HOME AWAY OM HOME’ FOR EX-MLB UMP AND A MUNY — ON THE ROP
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• BT GAY CLUBS TAMPA
• WELL BEFORE EX-BUC MATT GAY’S WALKOFF, BUCS KICKED THEMSELV
• GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER SAYS 'DISCRIMATN AND HATE HAS A VOICE BASEBALL' AFTER TAMPA BAY RAYS PLAYERS REFED TO WEAR PRI NIGHT UNIFORMS
• TAMPA BAY GAY CY GUI: PIRAT, PRI, GAYBORHOODS AND A PLACE FOR EVERYONE

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

Uned Stat Gay Sports Network is the only LGBTQ+ Sports Webse that nnects you wh all the leagu your cy. -- 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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

-based profsnal league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. The Red Sox recently gave a start to a pcher who jt two years ago rolled out a homophobic tweet.

Suffice to say, Major League Baseball’s celebratn of Pri Month hasn’t been whout s Boston’s queer sports fans now have more important thgs to worry about: They might be losg their beloved gay sports an age when datg apps have ma so that old-fashned, big-cy gay bars are gog the way of daily newspapers and mom-and-pop neighborhood nvenience stor, Cathedral Statn, loted the cy’s South End, fac an uncerta future.

“The future of gay bars, LGBT bars, whatever you want to ll them, they’ll have to be smaller plac that hold 100 people, 120 people, where you n get a lease.

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

Nobody’s gog to pay $5 ln to buy a piece of property to own a gay bar. While not technilly a gay bar, ’s a lively, gay-iendly tablishment that’s volved Boston’s LGBTQ+ muny, cludg s sponsorship of the annual Chandler Street Block ’s not jt the lol yokels who fell love wh Frz/Cathedral Statn.

Take, for stance, Dale Stt, a native of Portland, Ore., who ma headl 2014 when he beme the first active Major League Baseball umpire to e out as gay. “That was pretty surreal for me … stg a gay bar watchg myself do a plate game on televisn, ” said Dale Stt, who was the first active major-league umpire to e out as gay.

I remember there was another gay bar nearby, a vio bar, that was up over a rtrant. That was pretty surreal for me, pecially sce was early my reer and I’m tryg to make sure Major League Baseball don’t know I’m gay.

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

And there I am, stg a gay bar watchg myself do a plate game on televisn.

Nothg says Boston sports like a team photo of three of the cy’s all-time bartenrs clu Artie Oliver and Rob Mannke, who are themselv legends that they’ve been servg suds at var Boston gay bars for s. The reason I me out is bee I found a gay sports league, and Cathedral Statn, and before that Frz, has been a great supporter of all the gay sports leagu for years and ’s been the place where the jocks go hang out.

BOSTON GAY SPORTS BAR — ‘HOME AWAY OM HOME’ FOR EX-MLB UMP AND A MUNY — ON THE ROP

There are other gay bars that are about lookg cute or beg able to dance or to pick up guys.

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

Women dot the crowd at Cathedral on many nights, and ’s not unmon for a regular to brg along a straight buddy or two or don’t help that the South End, once a thrivg gay ghetto, is now a gentrified neighborhood of high-priced ndos and fancy rtrants.

BT GAY CLUBS TAMPA

What do help is Cathedral Statn’s richly served reputatn as Boston’s “Gay Cheers, ” the place where everybody knows your name.

WELL BEFORE EX-BUC MATT GAY’S WALKOFF, BUCS KICKED THEMSELV

It’s also a place where everyone knows your game, as what team you play for the cy’s many gay sports leagu, om the Beantown Softball League and Tennis4All to the FLAG (Friends, Lbians And Gays) Flag Football League and the Cambridge Boston Volleyball Associatn.

“I e here bee beg around fellow sports fans who happen to be gay adds to the sense of muny and belongg, ” said Marc Davo, 57, director of velopment and munitns for Casa Myrna, a nonprof which provis support for people impacted by domtic vlence.

GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER SAYS 'DISCRIMATN AND HATE HAS A VOICE BASEBALL' AFTER TAMPA BAY RAYS PLAYERS REFED TO WEAR PRI NIGHT UNIFORMS

He was joed by Frattura and Sly Ward, 65, a former Frz/Cathedral employee who is a chef at Hale Barnard Hoe, which provis support servic for the elrly, and also vice print of Boston Alliance of Gay Sports (BAGS). It’s a place where you’re 100 percent fortable if you’re gay.

Stt by then was feelg sufficiently fortable his gay sho that one night, after dog a Sox game at Fenway, he ved fellow umpir Ron Kulpa and Dan Iassogna to jo him for a few beers at they stepped si, Kulpa, a man not burned wh filters, looked around and said, “Hey, where are all the women?

”In Kulpa’s view, samplg a gay sports bar back then the pany of a gay umpire was no big al. Hawks sponsored the bill that allowed DeSantis to strip power om Disney as part of his fd wh the theme park giant over s opposn to the “don’t say gay” law banng classroom discsn of sexual orientatn and genr Fe, he has no higher tn experience, and was once spend om office for impersonatg a police officer; yet Hawks beme the only ndidate when the llege relnched s search after three well-qualified falists mysterly whdrew, and tste lowered the bar for recment. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

TAMPA BAY GAY CY GUI: PIRAT, PRI, GAYBORHOODS AND A PLACE FOR EVERYONE

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. 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.