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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• IS BENO BLANC GAY KNIV OUT & GLASS ONN? HIS PARTNER EXPLAED
• DANIEL CRAIG SAYS GAY RELATNSHIP IN KNIV OUT 'REFLECTS MY LIFE'
• DANIEL CRAIG ON HIS CHARACTER'S GAY RELATNSHIP 'KNIV OUT' SEQUEL: 'IT'S NORMAL'
• WHY KNIV OUT MAKG DANIEL CRAIG’S CHARACTER GAY ISN’T EXACTLY AN LGBTQ+ VICTORY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• DANIEL CRAIG SAYS HIS 'GLASS ONN' CHARACTER BEG GAY 'JT FEELS RIGHT': 'IT'S NORMAL'
• DIRECTOR REVEALS DANIEL CRAIG'S CHARACTER KNIV OUT IS 'OBVLY' GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• DANIEL CRAIG 'ALL GOOD' WH HIS GAY CHARACTER KNIV OUT SEQUEL

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

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. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

IS BENO BLANC GAY KNIV OUT & GLASS ONN? HIS PARTNER EXPLAED

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

DANIEL CRAIG SAYS GAY RELATNSHIP IN KNIV OUT 'REFLECTS MY LIFE'

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

DANIEL CRAIG ON HIS CHARACTER'S GAY RELATNSHIP 'KNIV OUT' SEQUEL: 'IT'S NORMAL'

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

WHY KNIV OUT MAKG DANIEL CRAIG’S CHARACTER GAY ISN’T EXACTLY AN LGBTQ+ VICTORY

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

-- 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 ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

*WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Glass Onn*Followg the succs of 2019’s Kniv Out, fans of the murr mystery quickly began llg for a sequel the hop of learng more about s enigmatic tective, Beno years later and that long-awaed sequel has fally arrived the form of Glass Onn which se Daniel Craig’s southern tective faced wh another puzzlg and multi-layered fans had hoped, the film reveals more about his character wh an early scene showg Blanc takg part a game of Among Us wh some famo fac before he receiv a clue that kickstarts his volvement the scene qutn also reveals that the tective shar his apartment wh another man, promptg many Kniv Out and Glass Onn fans to ask whether Beno Blanc is ONION CAMEOS: EVERY SURPRISE APPEARANCE IN KNIVES OUT 2Is Beno Blanc gay Kniv Out and Glass Onn? Y, Beno Blanc is ed gay the Kniv Out Glass Onn vaguely hts at that fact, the film’s wrer and director Rian Johnson has been much more open about the tective’s sexualy. Followg a screeng of the movie at the London Film Ftival, Johnson was asked – per Insir – if a scene showg Beno Blanc livg wh another man meant that the character is gay, to which Rian rpond: “Y, he obvly is.

© NetflixFans react to the newsFollowg the reveal that Beno Blanc is gay, plenty of fans have taken to social media to offer up their fan on Twter wrote: “The reveal of Beno Blanc’s gay lover Glass Onn is one of my favore movie moments of the year.

DANIEL CRAIG SAYS HIS 'GLASS ONN' CHARACTER BEG GAY 'JT FEELS RIGHT': 'IT'S NORMAL'

”While another add: “How am I only JUST learng that Beno Blanc is gay??

This fan had a warng for other viewers, however: Actually one super d spoiler: don’t go to this exced for an openly gay Beno Blanc bee you’re not gonna get unfortunately. They kept so vague and ambiguo that my mom thought [redacted] was playg his hoeworkerAnother Twter er poted to a scene Kniv Out as a sign that Blanc has always been gay: “I don’t know why people are surprised Beno Blanc is gay when he lls Ransom and Harlan ‘drama mamas’ Kniv Out.

“But what I liked the most is that they jt cid Beno Blanc is gay as hell.

DIRECTOR REVEALS DANIEL CRAIG'S CHARACTER KNIV OUT IS 'OBVLY' GAY

”However, this fal menter still believ another tective reigns supreme: “I don’t re if Beno Blanc is nonilly gay. Hercule Poirot will always be the gayt ltle tective wh a funny accent my heart.

Daniel Craig has said that his character’s gay relatnship the Kniv Out sequel Glass Onn “reflects” his own life.

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

The former Jam Bond actor recently reprised his role as tective Beno Blanc the film seri, the latt which was released cemas last month and will arrive on Netflix on 23 Onn featur a scene that suggts Blanc liv wh a male pann, wh director Rian Johnson also nfirmg to Insir that the character is “obvly” a gay relatnship. Daniel was asked about this an terview wh The Sunday Tim, to which he explaed that when makg films, “you are supposed to reflect life” ntued: “And that [gay] relatnship reflects my life. And that [gay] relatnship reflects people my life, " he explaed.

When asked about a scene which Blanc is shown wh a male lover, Johnson said, “Y, obvly he is [gay]. The film isn’t released on Netflix until Christmas, but we’d be willg to bet that that meo will be a quick, blk-and-you’ll-miss- moment, wh no larger bearg on the film, that’s easily excised for homophobic markets.

DANIEL CRAIG 'ALL GOOD' WH HIS GAY CHARACTER KNIV OUT SEQUEL

There have also been bigger miss, such as Bohemian Rhapsody, a film about Freddie Mercury that somehow managed to relegate his queerns to the background, and there was Immortals, a Marvel film that had a gay superhero whose sexualy felt like was lobbed to sre pots. Most recently, Billy Eichner’s gay romantic edy Bros has shown dienc a much more overt pictn of queer life. In the meantime, Glass Onn: A Kniv Out Story and s gay lover meo shows that mastream Hollywood studs have ltle tert dog better.