Jaguars' Kev Maxen First Male Coach to Come Out as Gay U.S. Sports

Contents:

• THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY

What we got stead was a psule episo, and a particularly bracg one, given the show’s opprsively bleak mood th far: The hour is dited to the love story of Bill and Frank, a gay uple who—due ially to Bill’s skills as a bunker-stockg, booby-trappg, Don’t Tread on Me survivalist—manage to build a largely happy existence together an abandoned and eventually fortified ral hamlet for almost 20 years.

Wh Bill and Frank, we were given a portra of love—specifilly gay love—that feels surprisg and urgent. In our own 2023, we are not exactly lackg for media imag of whe gay men. For one thg, we see gay sire portrayed all s plexy, but wh a touch as light as a breeze playg through curtas.

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US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

But Bill and Frank create somethg else, a ltle oasis of their own that’s regnizably gay, full of quiet bety and joys the size of new strawberri. Frank wants to fix up the block and some of the “not stupid” shops—the we and furnure stor, the clothg boutique—bee he hop they might one day have unfected guts (which they eventually do, the form of Joel and Ts), but really bee makg thgs nice, pecially when nicens isn’t valued, is one of the great gay llgs.

WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE

As an echo of the gay experience wh AIDS, is, as veteran activist Peter Staley put a Facebook post, a ftg tribute to the “tenr love & bravery gay men summoned when facg ath durg the plague years, cludg those who did so on their own terms. How powerful, then, to see not only a gay uple given an entire hour of a marquee show, but a gay uple who are held up as the keepers of civilizatn, as stewards of bety, as emblems of human digny and possibily.

The long-anticipated third episo of The Last of Us troduced viewers to the gay love story between Bill (played by Nick Offerman) and Frank (played by Murray Bartlett) an terview whInverse, episo three director Peter Hoar explaed how he liberately “tricked” viewers to watchg a gay love story whout necsarily makg that clear straight away.

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WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED

Episo three was review-bombed after highlighted a gay relatnship. If you don't want to watch the show bee has gay storyl, bee has a trans character, that's on you, and you're missg out.

Acrdg to crics who have seen the show, we're gettg a whole lot more of The Last of Us' gay characters than we thought.The Last of Us follows Joel and Ellie as they travel across a post-apolyptic Ameri tryg to avoid fung-fected zombi. “The Last of Us” also will spotlight Bill and Frank, a gay uple played by Nick Offerman (“Parks and Rec”) and out gay actor Murray Bartlett (“Lookg, ” “The Whe Lot, ” “Wele to Chippendal”).

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‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO

The last three stars to go through to the Dancg Wh the Stars grand fale were revealed on Monday night’s episo, but was a tough cisn for the judg wh fabulo performanc across the Pia Miranda, Virgia Gay and Christie Whelan-Browne, rad host and podster Lra Byrne, Human Nature sger Phil Burton and Olympian Sally Pearson gave their all to imprs the judg and hopefully move one step closer to the veted Mirror Ball THE VIDEO ABOVE: Couple sr perfect 10s on Dancg Wh the Dancg wh the Stars on Channel 7 and stream for ee on 7pl >>There were a number of 10s given out across the night - but only one pair managed to sre perfect 10s om all four the very begng, actrs Virgia Gay and her dance partner Ian Wae have been given nsistently high sr, and on Monday night they got the clean sweep after performg a “sassy, sensuo” ’s spe Virgia tellg Ian rehearsals that the words “elegant, smooth and slow” had never been applied to her looked like she was gog to need to work hard to nail the performance on the night - and that she did. Virgia Gay and Ian perform a perfect foxtrot. “Virgia Gay!

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Virgia Gay and Ian Wae wowed the judg on Dancg Wh the Stars.

THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE

”Virgia Gay and Ian Wae hear the verdict of the judg on Dancg Wh the Stars. Cred: SevenTop srg celebri Virgia Gay and Phil Burton went straight through to the fal, while Pia Miranda, Christie Whelan Brown and Lra Byrne had to pete dance-off to secure the last remag home was Olympian athlete Sally Pearson, so who would land that veted fal spot? ”The six falistsThe six grand falists for 2023 are:Pli - PerformerChristie Whelan Brown - Stage and screen actorMary Cotas - Comedian and actorVirgia Gay - ActorPhil Burton - SgerEy Weir - Home and Away actorDancg Wh the Stars ntu Sunday July 23 at 7pm on Channel 7 and 7pl.

In other words, they’re a perfect gay uple, a “normal” gay uple, a world which the mere thought of takg re of someone else is somethg of a ath sentence.

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

Some might fd the pivot tone and narrative to be rehg, and the seri has already been praised by crics for liverg a gay love story, but the tonal shift om bter loss to lovg oasis feels disgenuo. Watchg the episo, feels as though the wrg beme stuck 2003, which is when the fungal panmic hs the show, rultg the kd of gay love story that would have been groundbreakg TV back then, but is now jt wearisome. To settle for a narrative this bland and dated, one termed to wrg tears while both metaphorilly and lerally buryg s gays — bee, y, strippg them of any narrative purpose is a thematic burial before their actual on-screen aths, is flat-out mortifyg, particularly a world where more and more nuanced and plited queer characters e to life every day.

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