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

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• ANDY BRENNAN IS ATRALIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE SOCCER PLAYER
• EACH OF AMERI’S BIG 5 SPORTS CURRENTLY HAS AN OUT GAY MAN THE PROS. THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED
• ATHLET WHO ARE GAY

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

-- 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. 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. 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. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.

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

Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice.

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. 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! Natnal Hockey League prospect Le Prokop me out as gay July, the first active player the league to e out.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

"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.

I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. 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. 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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

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. But not for Murray -- the prospect of beg jt the third male, openly gay, active profsnal footballer the world ma an already dntg suatn that more he stared to the btlg night, he thought about what had happened earlier that day.

Play0:48How a sgle photo nvced Zanr Murray to e outSttish footballer Zanr Murray says a photo taken at his first Pri event changed his like that, he had filled the 28-year void of gay, male reprentatn Sttish football -- ntug the legacy of Jt Fashanu, who me out 1990 and left Hearts of Midlothian 1994. Fashanu died by suici 1998, and wasn't until Jake Daniels and Murray me out 2022 that the UK had another openly gay male took years of self-acceptance for Murray to get to this pot, and he says not beg out st him the chance to better his football reer. "I had opportuni to play higher [ the Sttish divisns], the one reason I didn't was bee I was gay, " he ntued.

'"But then got to a pot where [I thought], 'you know what, I don't re if anyone se me wh my gay pals' -- and that's amazg.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

"Wh a weight off his cht, Murray add that g out was 'the bt thg' he'd ever done, and that sentiment was echoed by Sttish Football Associatn referee Lloyd Wilson, who me out as gay June 2022. I'm lighted to be gay. New rearch released by Stonewall October last year found the proportn of fans who thk homophobic remarks sport are acceptable has almost halved -- droppg om 25% 2017 to 14% makg clear he never took part homophobic abe, Wilson rells engagg 'homophobic banter' his younger years.

He is simply a referee, not 'the gay referee, ' he still works for everythg he earns, and has not changed the way he functns the profsnal environment. Play0:57Swimmer Daniel Jervis spired by Jake Daniels' cisn to e outBrish swimmer Daniel Jervis talks about what motivated him to e out as gay. A swimmer who reprented Great Bra at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Jervis announced he is gay last June -- a month before he was due to pete the 2022 Commonwealth Gam (he was unable to as he'd ntracted COVID-19) the world me to a standstill durg the panmic, Jervis knew he uld not pe acceptg his tth any longer.

One day I'd be like, 'no I'm not [gay], what am I dog' and the next day I'd be like, 'I absolutely am. "Jervis says he, the past, msaged gay athlet like diver Tom Daley and footballer Jake Daniels, sayg thank you.

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

Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game 2021. In June 2021, for example, Carl Nassib me out publicly as the first “out” gay male the NFL.

Then, Clay Davi me out publicly as the first out gay ele male cyclist Bra.

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

As wh other gay male athlet before them recent years, both have been met wh public support.

Formula One and football are hyper-mascule sports, often nsired to have macho and homophobic cultur. While recent data om the US shows that the acceptance of homosexualy society often remas divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment, overall there has been creasg acceptance most untri. Rearch the UK, for example, nsistently shows high levels of acceptance of homosexualy - wh only 16% of those surveyed 2018 believg same-sex relatnships were eher “always” or “mostly” wrong.

The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U. While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U. When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.

WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

Carl Nassib ma history 2021 by beg the first openly gay man to actively play the NFL.

In 2021, Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay. In June 2021, NFL fensive end Carl Nassib me out as gay a vio posted to his Instagram, addg he donated $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, an anizatn that foc on suici preventn LGBTQ youth after he stggled wh his sexualy for 15 years.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

"I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay, " Nassib said the vio. Le Prokop beme the first NHL player to e out as gay. "Acrdg to USA Today, no NHL player — active or retired — had e out as gay.

ANDY BRENNAN IS ATRALIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE SOCCER PLAYER

Michael Sam was the first openly gay man to be drafted to the NFL.

In 2014, Michael Sam me out as gay an terview wh ESPN and ma history that same year.

Louis Rams, beg the first openly gay man to ever be drafted to the NFL.

EACH OF AMERI’S BIG 5 SPORTS CURRENTLY HAS AN OUT GAY MAN THE PROS. THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED

"Sce Febary and my big announcement, this has been a whole [lot of] speculatn of the first openly gay football player, but you know what? Soccer star Megan Rapoe is openly gay. The athlete quickly ma a name for herself a seri of TV terviews, where she voiced her support of women's rights and LGBTQ rights as an openly gay woman.

"I thk female athlet, general, are at the foreont of every prott general bee we're gay, we're women, we're women of lor, we're sort of everythg all at one time, " Rapoe told NBC news 2019. Sue Bird me out as gay 2017 and announced she is datg Megan Rapoe. Ryan O'Callaghan me out as gay after retirg om the NFL.

ATHLET WHO ARE GAY

The thgs you hear as a child—every time you hear someone say 'f----t' or talk bad about a gay guy, or see somethg on TV and make fun of that. John Amaechi me out as gay 2007, four years after retirg om the NBA.

" He scribed hidg his sexualy while playg for the Utah Jazz, but said some teammat who spected he was gay were welg about a 2007 terview on "Outsi the L, " Amaechi, who played five seasons the NBA, said he thought there were other gay players the league, but said 's "terrifyg" for some to e out. Robbie Rogers was the first openly gay soccer player a profsnal league. Robbie Rogers played soccer England until 2013 when he announced he was gay and leavg the sport.

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