Jags' Maxen is first male Amerin pro sports ach to e out as gay - ESPN

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• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• DESANTIS CAMPAIGN FAC BACKLASH AFTER PROMOTG UNHGED ANTI-LGBTQ ADLOG CAB REPUBLINS LLED THE AD “DIVISIVE AND SPERATE.”BY JACK MCCORDICKJULY 2, 2023FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTISJOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS’S PRINTIAL MPAIGN SHARED A BIZARRE, MEME-FILLED VIO FRIDAY CELEBRATG THE ERNOR’S ANTI-LGBTQ RERD AND ATTACKG DONALD TMP’S 2016 PLEDGE TO “DO EVERYTHG MY POWER TO PROTECT OUR LGBTQ CIZENS.” THE VIO, WHICH WAS POSTED BY THE DESANTIS WAR ROOM ACUNT AND AMPLIFIED BY DESANTIS FLUENCERS, HAS BEEN WILY NMNED AS HOMOPHOBIC, EVEN BY SOME REPUBLINS.THE VIO OPENS WH A STRG OF CLIPS OF TMP MAKG POSIVE MENTS ABOUT THE LGBTQ MUNY, CLUDG ONE THAT ME THE WAKE OF THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE 2016, WHICH TOOK PLACE DESANTIS’S HOME STATE. "TO WRAP UP PRI MONTH, LET'S HEAR OM THE POLICIAN WHO DID MORE THAN ANY OTHER REPUBLIN TO CELEBRATE ,” THE VIO IS PTNED, SEEMGLY REFERRG TO TMP. THEN THE TONE SHIFTS TO THUMPG, DARK MIC AND JUXTAPOS PICTUR OF DESANTIS—CLUDG ONE WH LASERS SHOOTG OUT OF HIS EY—WH IMAG OF BODYBUILRS AND POP CULTURE REFERENC, CLUDG CHRISTIAN BALE’S PATRICK BATEMAN (AMERIN PSYCHO) AND BRAD PT’S ACHILL (300). THE IMAG ARE MIXED WH HEADL AND D CRYG DESANTIS’S LEGISLATIVE ATTACKS ON LGBTQ PEOPLE, CLUDG ONE CLAIMG THE LAWS “LERALLY THREATEN TRANS EXISTENCE.”THE VIO WAS WILY CRICIZED, CLUDG BY SOME REPUBLINS. RICHARD GRENELL, WHO SERVED AS TMP’S ACTG DIRECTOR OF NATNAL INTELLIGENCE AND IS THE UNTRY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SCRIBED THE VIO AS “UNNIABLY HOMOPHOBIC.” LOG CAB REPUBLINS, A LARGE, PRO-LGBTQ GOP GROUP, LLED THE AD “DIVISIVE AND SPERATE” AND SAID “VENTURED TO HOMOPHOBIC TERRORY.” AND SARAH LONGWELL, A MORATE REPUBLIN STRATEGIST, WROTE ON TWTER THAT “THE NSULTANTS WHO THK THIS KD OF ‘NNG TO TMP’S RIGHT’ IS GOG TO BE EFFECTIVE SHOULD BE SACKED.”SEVERAL MENTATORS NOTED SATURDAY THAT THE AD’S TONE AND NTENT REFLECTED DESANTIS’S MPAIGN’S URTG OF THE OBSSNS OF YOUNG, VERY ONLE RIGHT-WGERS, CLUDG THE SO-LLED GROYPERS, LED BY WHE NATNALIST AND HOLOT NIER NICHOLAS FUENT. “IT'S AN AD MA BY GROYPERS FOR GROYPERS WH ALL SORTS OF WEIRD LTLE SHOUTOUTS (PATRICK BATEMAN, 300),” WROTE THE NATN’S JEET HEER.THE VIO WAS SHARED BY NATE HOCHMAN, A FORMER NATNAL REVIEW WRER, AND MEMBER OF DESANTIS’S MUNITNS TEAM, WHO MA HEADL LAST YEAR AFTER HE PARTICIPATED A TWTER SPAC TALK WH FUENT AND PRAISED HIM FOR GETTG “A LOT OF KIDS ‘BASED’.” IT WAS ALSO PROMOTED BY PEDRO GONZALEZ, A PRO-DESANTIS FLUENCER AND MAGAZE EDOR WHOSE WORK HAS BEEN AMPLIFIED BY NUMERO MEMBERS OF THE DESANTIS MPAIGN. GONZALEZ WAS THE SUBJECT LAST TUDAY OF A MAJOR PROFILE (OF ALL PLAC) BREBART, WHICH PUBLISHED A SERI OF RACIST AND ANTISEMIC TEXTS GONZALEZ ALLEGEDLY SENT LEAKED GROUP CHATS. IN ONE, GONZALEZ CLAIMED HE WAS “TAKG UP ARMS WH THE GROYPERS.” FOLLOWG THE EXPOSé, ROLLG STONE REPORTED THAT MANY PRO-DESANTIS FLUENCERS WERE “QUICK TO RALLY” BEHD GONZALEZ.SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER EVER NFIRMED BY THE SENATE (GRENELL DID NOT GO THROUGH SENATE NFIRMATN), RPOND TO THE VIO ON SUNDAY MORNG. “I’M GOG TO LEAVE ASI THE STRANGENS OF TRYG TO PROVE YOUR MANHOOD BY PUTTG UP A VIO THAT SPLIC IMAG OF YOU BETWEEN OILED-UP, SHIRTLS BODYBUILRS,” BUTTIGIEG SAID ON CNN. IN A TWEET, BUTTEGIEG’S HBAND, GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST CHASTEN GLEZMAN BUTTIGIEG, JOKED THAT THE AD WAS “ACTUALLY VERY GAY.”“I JT DON’T UNRSTAND THE MENTALY OF SOMEONE GETTG UP THE MORNG THKG HE’S TRYG TO PROVE HIS WORTH BY PETG OVER WHO N MAKE LIFE HARST FOR A HARD-H MUNY THAT IS ALREADY SO VULNERABLE AMERI,” THE TRANSPORTATN SECRETARY ADD.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYJACK MCCORDICK
• 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

An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak. But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post.

Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light.Spencer Hodson/Instagram. The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.1-ch height.

DESANTIS CAMPAIGN FAC BACKLASH AFTER PROMOTG UNHGED ANTI-LGBTQ ADLOG CAB REPUBLINS LLED THE AD “DIVISIVE AND SPERATE.”BY JACK MCCORDICKJULY 2, 2023FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTISJOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS’S PRINTIAL MPAIGN SHARED A BIZARRE, MEME-FILLED VIO FRIDAY CELEBRATG THE ERNOR’S ANTI-LGBTQ RERD AND ATTACKG DONALD TMP’S 2016 PLEDGE TO “DO EVERYTHG MY POWER TO PROTECT OUR LGBTQ CIZENS.” THE VIO, WHICH WAS POSTED BY THE DESANTIS WAR ROOM ACUNT AND AMPLIFIED BY DESANTIS FLUENCERS, HAS BEEN WILY NMNED AS HOMOPHOBIC, EVEN BY SOME REPUBLINS.THE VIO OPENS WH A STRG OF CLIPS OF TMP MAKG POSIVE MENTS ABOUT THE LGBTQ MUNY, CLUDG ONE THAT ME THE WAKE OF THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE 2016, WHICH TOOK PLACE DESANTIS’S HOME STATE. "TO WRAP UP PRI MONTH, LET'S HEAR OM THE POLICIAN WHO DID MORE THAN ANY OTHER REPUBLIN TO CELEBRATE ,” THE VIO IS PTNED, SEEMGLY REFERRG TO TMP. THEN THE TONE SHIFTS TO THUMPG, DARK MIC AND JUXTAPOS PICTUR OF DESANTIS—CLUDG ONE WH LASERS SHOOTG OUT OF HIS EY—WH IMAG OF BODYBUILRS AND POP CULTURE REFERENC, CLUDG CHRISTIAN BALE’S PATRICK BATEMAN (AMERIN PSYCHO) AND BRAD PT’S ACHILL (300). THE IMAG ARE MIXED WH HEADL AND D CRYG DESANTIS’S LEGISLATIVE ATTACKS ON LGBTQ PEOPLE, CLUDG ONE CLAIMG THE LAWS “LERALLY THREATEN TRANS EXISTENCE.”THE VIO WAS WILY CRICIZED, CLUDG BY SOME REPUBLINS. RICHARD GRENELL, WHO SERVED AS TMP’S ACTG DIRECTOR OF NATNAL INTELLIGENCE AND IS THE UNTRY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SCRIBED THE VIO AS “UNNIABLY HOMOPHOBIC.” LOG CAB REPUBLINS, A LARGE, PRO-LGBTQ GOP GROUP, LLED THE AD “DIVISIVE AND SPERATE” AND SAID “VENTURED TO HOMOPHOBIC TERRORY.” AND SARAH LONGWELL, A MORATE REPUBLIN STRATEGIST, WROTE ON TWTER THAT “THE NSULTANTS WHO THK THIS KD OF ‘NNG TO TMP’S RIGHT’ IS GOG TO BE EFFECTIVE SHOULD BE SACKED.”SEVERAL MENTATORS NOTED SATURDAY THAT THE AD’S TONE AND NTENT REFLECTED DESANTIS’S MPAIGN’S URTG OF THE OBSSNS OF YOUNG, VERY ONLE RIGHT-WGERS, CLUDG THE SO-LLED GROYPERS, LED BY WHE NATNALIST AND HOLOT NIER NICHOLAS FUENT. “IT'S AN AD MA BY GROYPERS FOR GROYPERS WH ALL SORTS OF WEIRD LTLE SHOUTOUTS (PATRICK BATEMAN, 300),” WROTE THE NATN’S JEET HEER.THE VIO WAS SHARED BY NATE HOCHMAN, A FORMER NATNAL REVIEW WRER, AND MEMBER OF DESANTIS’S MUNITNS TEAM, WHO MA HEADL LAST YEAR AFTER HE PARTICIPATED A TWTER SPAC TALK WH FUENT AND PRAISED HIM FOR GETTG “A LOT OF KIDS ‘BASED’.” IT WAS ALSO PROMOTED BY PEDRO GONZALEZ, A PRO-DESANTIS FLUENCER AND MAGAZE EDOR WHOSE WORK HAS BEEN AMPLIFIED BY NUMERO MEMBERS OF THE DESANTIS MPAIGN. GONZALEZ WAS THE SUBJECT LAST TUDAY OF A MAJOR PROFILE (OF ALL PLAC) BREBART, WHICH PUBLISHED A SERI OF RACIST AND ANTISEMIC TEXTS GONZALEZ ALLEGEDLY SENT LEAKED GROUP CHATS. IN ONE, GONZALEZ CLAIMED HE WAS “TAKG UP ARMS WH THE GROYPERS.” FOLLOWG THE EXPOSé, ROLLG STONE REPORTED THAT MANY PRO-DESANTIS FLUENCERS WERE “QUICK TO RALLY” BEHD GONZALEZ.SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER EVER NFIRMED BY THE SENATE (GRENELL DID NOT GO THROUGH SENATE NFIRMATN), RPOND TO THE VIO ON SUNDAY MORNG. “I’M GOG TO LEAVE ASI THE STRANGENS OF TRYG TO PROVE YOUR MANHOOD BY PUTTG UP A VIO THAT SPLIC IMAG OF YOU BETWEEN OILED-UP, SHIRTLS BODYBUILRS,” BUTTIGIEG SAID ON CNN. IN A TWEET, BUTTEGIEG’S HBAND, GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST CHASTEN GLEZMAN BUTTIGIEG, JOKED THAT THE AD WAS “ACTUALLY VERY GAY.”“I JT DON’T UNRSTAND THE MENTALY OF SOMEONE GETTG UP THE MORNG THKG HE’S TRYG TO PROVE HIS WORTH BY PETG OVER WHO N MAKE LIFE HARST FOR A HARD-H MUNY THAT IS ALREADY SO VULNERABLE AMERI,” THE TRANSPORTATN SECRETARY ADD.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYJACK MCCORDICK

“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle,” Hodson told The Post. “When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent,” he add.

Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.

“Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month,” he said. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.