Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- GAY ATHLET ARE MAKG HISTORY AT THE 2018 WTER OLYMPICS
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
- FIRST GAY OLYMPIAN HISTORY PETED 1928
- DON'T FET THE 8 LBIAN ATHLET WHO STOOD UP FOR GAY RIGHTS
- ATHLET WHO ARE GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS
GAY ATHLET ARE MAKG HISTORY AT THE 2018 WTER OLYMPICS
Figure skaters Adam Rippon and Eric Radford each ma history as openly gay men who won medals at the 2018 Wter Olympics, the latt ton for Team LGBTQ. * first openly gay female athlete *
Katie Sowers, offensive assistant for the San Francis 49ers, beme the first woman and the first openly gay person to ach at the Super Bowl 2020.
No list of groundbreakg athlet would be plete whout Billie Jean Kg, one of the greatt women's tennis players of all time and a dited activist for gay rights and genr equaly. Dani Roem is the first openly transgenr person to be elected to the Virgia General Assembly, challengg and featg 13-term cumbent and self-scribed "chief homophobe" Bob Marshall the 2017 special electn.
She is the first Black woman, the first openly gay person, and only the send woman to be elected mayor of the cy, makg Chigo the largt U. She was the first Lata and the first openly gay person nomated for ernor by a major party Texas, but ultimately lost to Republin Governor Greg Abbott.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
Jacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen, who joed the team last year, me out publicly as gay an terview wh Outsports published on Thursday, beg the first ach a U.S. men’s profsnal league to do so" emprop="scriptn * first openly gay female athlete *
She rose to fame as a Black lbian cross-drsg performer the 1920s, startg her reer one of New York's most notor gay speakeasi. She was married to Robert Nemiroff but had affairs wh women, and ntributed to early queer publitns cludg the lbian-oriented The Ladr and the gay magaze One. She married her wife Portia De Rossi 2008, providg an important example of a mastream gay marriage at the height of the Proposn 8 bate.
The number doubl the 40 openly gay, lbian and bisexual women who peted of the women are om North and South Ameri, Europe, Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports reported.
FIRST GAY OLYMPIAN HISTORY PETED 1928
In the days followg his g out, former Missouri fensive end Michael Sam has enjoyed an outpourg of support om current NFL players and fans alike. Wh this announcement, he will bee the first active openly gay male athlete Amerin… * first openly gay female athlete *
Meanwhile, the 2022 Men’s World Cup was set to be hosted Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison.
The associatn’s cisn prompted some fans and athlet — cludg the first openly gay major league soccer player — to speak out.
Not only don’t they have our backs, our liv don’t matter, ” Robbie Rogers, one of the first openly gay major league soccer players, said a 2015 opn article for USA Today after FIFA announced the untri that would host the upg tournaments. But openly gay and lbian athlet are another matter, pecially the Wter Olympics, which mak a uple of recent ton all the more noteworthy.
DON'T FET THE 8 LBIAN ATHLET WHO STOOD UP FOR GAY RIGHTS
Thanks to the proment athlet who are gay, the sports world is beg more and more acceptg of homosexual players. Whether the famo Olympians, ... * first openly gay female athlete *
First, Team USA’s Adam Rippon ma history by beg the first out gay man om the US to medal a Wter Olympics by takg home the bronze for his ee skate performance. Then, Canadian Eric Radford beme the first openly gay Wter Olympics champn after wng the gold wh partner Meagan Duhamel the pairs ee skate performance.
Rippon is one of two openly gay Amerin athlet to reprent team USA for the first time the Wter Olympics, along wh etyle skig’s G Kenworthy. The number of openly gay athlet is still relatively small, and those who e out tend to do so after their first major petns – for a variety of reasons. Brian Boano, the 1988 Olympic figure skatg gold medalist, announced he was gay 2013, after Print Obama named him to the official US legatn to the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
ATHLET WHO ARE GAY
* first openly gay female athlete *
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."Hi, everyone," the 21-year-old left back and central midfielr for the Alai Uned soccer team said the vio. 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!A member of the Salem-Keizer Volno team as well as an acplished untry mic sger-songwrer, Ruby told USA Today, "I kept thkg about the ltle 14-year-old me, who was sred bee I'm a baseball player who loved untry mic.
Selected the third round of the 2020 NHL Draft by the Nashville Predators, the big fenr has a good shot of makg the regular-season roster."I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay," he wrote a heartfelt msage on social media. 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."What's up people," Nassib said his Instagram post.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay."He ntued: "I've been meang to do this for a while now but fally feel fortable gettg off my cht.
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."Hi, I'm Nikki and I'm transgenr," Hiltz wrote the post.
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.S.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPENLY GAY OLYMPIANS
In 1976, Wadll and his partner Charl Deaton are the first gay men to be featured the "Coupl" sectn of People magaze. Gallagher says that before his suici attempt, he had bee unable to rencile his image of himself as an athlete wh gay urg. Bce Hay, an Olympic swimmer who won a gold medal 1984 as a member of the 800-meter etyle relay, out publicly at the Gay Gam and ws seven gold medals petn.
Roy Simmons, an offensive guard for the New York Giants and the Washgton Redsks om 1979-83, reveals he is gay durg an appearance on The Phil Donahue Show. Durg the same terview which he adms his homosexualy, Burke says he believ he was trad om the Dodgers bee management spected his was gay.
Rudy Galdo, the natnal men's skatg champn, discs beg a gay man the book Insi Edge: A Revealg Journey Into the Secret World of Figure Skatg. Greg Louganis, a special Goodwill Gam edn of New York 1 News' nightly sports program, says that several athlet profsnal team sports have asked him for advice about gog public wh their homosexualy. Brian Orser, former world figure skatg champn and two-time Canadian Olympic silver medalist, is revealed November as gay an palimony su filed by an ex-boyiend.