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Contents:

• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS HAVE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL COACH
• MASKED SGER ORVILLE PECK ON BEG OPENLY GAY COUNTRY MIC: ‘WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN THERE’
• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
• WHAT MICIANS ARE OPENLY GAY?

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals.

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly.

It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport.

35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay.

”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry. As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok.

’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one.

GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER

That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac. “I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them.

The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done. The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.

“Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely. Schnapp posted a TikTok vio January that read, "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know.

"Page, who is married to dancer Emma Portner, prevly me out as gay durg a 2014 speech at Time to Thrive, a nference to promote the welfare of LGBTQ youth Las Vegas. Parsons publicly me out as gay a 2012 New York Tim feature, which explored his role as a young gay activist onstage "The Normal Heart, " a Broadway show that grappl wh AIDS. If you still have a problem wh gay people, you directly have a problem wh me, '" he recently told Variety.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

"The actor is set to star a Netflix adaptatn of the drama "The Boys the Band" alongsi fellow gay actors Matt Bomer and Zachary Quto. The story follows group of gay men who fd solace each other, amidst their stggl a close-md society.

"He reflected on his evolutn as a gay man theater, his recent succs on Broadway, and FX's "Pose, " and his refal to keep playg stereotyp. The "Rocket Man" sger has habually donated and drawn attentn to LGBTQ , cludg foundg the Elton John AIDS Foundatn 1992, the same year he told Rollg Stone that he felt "que fortable beg gay.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS HAVE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL COACH

" "This is not somethg that I'm ashamed of, and 's not somethg that anyone should have to be ashamed of, " he followed he ndid vio wh a "Part 2" 2015 and now, as a pop star and actor, Sivan has ntued to openly discs his experienc as a gay man. Kristen Stewart, who intifi as bisexual, famoly joked about beg "so gay" on "Saturday Night Live. Eichner has played gay characters shows like "Difficult People" and "Parks and Recreatn.

As Brent Lang wrote a profile of Eichner for Variety, "On social media, he's bee one of the most vol gay voic of the ristance" and equently urg his fans to get volved polilly. Acrdg to Variety, this mak Eichner the first openly gay man to wre and star a major stud movie.

MASKED SGER ORVILLE PECK ON BEG OPENLY GAY COUNTRY MIC: ‘WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN THERE’

"I hear people talkg about diversy and cln, but I often see gay people left out of those nversatns. The edy muny, which has always been such a straight man's game, has not been kd to openly gay men, and I still see so much homophobia when to stg. "After a long ternal journey, you now embrace beg gay, regnizg as a wonrful and tegrally important ponent part of the totaly that is you, " he wrote.

ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT

LGBTQ+ CelebriLists of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and all other kds of celebs workg the entertament dtry and the public addns: Miss BennyBrian Molko is the most divisive on this listThe LGBTQ+ muny has long been celebrated wh the mic dtry, as some of the biggt stars of the late 20th century and beyond have intified themselv as such.

While shouldn't matter whether a sger or band is gay, lbian, transgenr, and so on, there have been plenty throughout mic's history that pletely she. In fact, some of the greatt micians to date were and are openly gay, and their mic stands the tt of time no ls.

WHAT MICIANS ARE OPENLY GAY?

As an openly gay artist sce the early 1970s, he has been a trailblazer for LGBTQ+ reprentatn the mic dtry while g his platform to advote for HIV/AIDS awarens and other philanthropic . Openly gay sce the late 1990s, he beme an advote for LGBTQ+ rights and HIV/AIDS awarens while breakg down barriers the mic dtry. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports.