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Contents:

• THREAD: MY GAY FOR PAY EXPERIENCE, AMA
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

THREAD: MY GAY FOR PAY EXPERIENCE, AMA

My Gay For Pay experience, AMA. All the years of gay chicken and i uld be gettg paid for ?! Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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. ”Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach the NFL and all of major Amerin men's pro sports, acrdg to Outsports.

" San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, a pneer among female ach the NFL, me out as the the league's first openly gay ach 2017, acrdg to Outsports. He add that he reached out last year for advice on g out om former Las Vegas Rairs lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active openly gay player NFL history 2021. Intertgly, works two different directns: most studi show a wage penalty for gay men but a wage premium for lbian women pared wh their heterosexual unterparts.

One analysis of 32 studi om several untri found that on average, gay men earned 11% ls than heterosexual men, while lbian women earned 9% more than heterosexual women. Wh the data on gay people, there are also variatns between untri and pendg on how exactly sexual orientatn is classified, for example whether ’s based on survey evince or habatn – and there are studi such as this one om the US that found gay men actually earng more. One possible explanatn is the work choic that gay people make.

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

Rearch suggts gay men are more likely to avoid occupatns that are more male-domated than other men (which clus the bt paid jobs), while lbian women are more likely to avoid female-domated occupatns than other women (which are typilly worse paid).

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

But why do gay people enter different profsns? A key qutn is whether the differenc wag and choice of employment are driven by prejudice, or whether they are the rult of some nate, work-relevant tras of gay people related to their preferenc or skills. If gay men are paid ls bee of prejudice, then society is not makg the bt e of their skills and productivy.

This would be enomilly efficient and would hold back output, bee would suggt that gay men are not makg the ntributn that they uld.