Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer.
Contents:
- 21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT
- EUPHORIA EXPLOR CAL JABS’ SEXUALY WH TRAGIC GAY ROMANTIC BACKSTORY
- MD THE MEDIA: EUPHORIA'S DEPICTN OF A HIDN GAY INTY, AND S CONSEQUENC
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- ‘EUPHORIA’ REVEALS THE TRAGIC BACKSTORY OF ITS BIGGT PSYCHORECAPTHE THIRD EPISO OF THE HBO H’S SEND SEASON FOC ON CAL JABS, THE RINT DAD OM HELL, AND SE RUE MAKE A CISN THAT ULD E BACK TO HNT HER. KYNDALL CUNNGHAMENTERTAMENT REPORTERPUBLISHED JAN. 23, 2022 10:00PM EST HBOLAST WEEK’S EPISO WAS A REHG DIVERSN OM EUPHORIA’S TYPIL STCTURE, BEGNG THE PRENT AS OPPOSED TO A LD OPEN PICTG SOMEONE’S TERRIBLE UPBRGG. BUT LEVSON IS AS MTED TO THE DUB “TRMA PLOT” AS HE IS TO FILMG MALE CROTCH. AND THERE’S HARDLY A PERSON WH THIS ENSEMBLE OF THOROUGHLY FUCKED-UP CHARACTERS MORE SUED FOR THIS VICE THAN ERIC DANE’S CAL JABS.CAL’S EPLY CLICHED BACKSTORY PRETTY MUCH WR SELF THANKS TO YEARS OF TEEN PROGRAMMG FEATURG “THE CLOSETED JOCK” AND THE WRONGHEAD SOCIETAL NOTN THAT THE WORST MEN ARE SECRETLY GAY. ACRDGLY, WE’RE TRODUCED TO A TEENAGE CAL PETG A HIGH SCHOOL WRTLG MATCH. WE ALSO MEET HIS TEAMMATE AND BT IEND DERRICK, WHOSE ROLE CAL’S SEXUAL AWAKENG BE OBV PRETTY QUICKLY WHEN HE STAR DIRECTLY AT HIS PENIS A LOCKER ROOM. DPE THE ROMANTIC UNRCURRENTS THEIR IENDSHIP, THEY EACH PURSUE RELATNSHIPS WH GIRLS. CAL STARTS DATG A CLASSMATE NAMED MARSHA, WHO TURNS OUT TO BE NATE’S MOM, AND NVC HIMSELF THAT HE ENJOYS HAVG SEX WH HER. AT THIS POT THE SEQUENCE, THE AMOUNT OF BARE BOOBS, BUTTS AND GENALS WE’VE SEEN IS PRETTY JARRG, EVEN BY HBO STANDARDS. IF VIEWERS WERE TAKEN ABACK BY LAST WEEK’S SEX SCEN, THIS EPISO IS SURE TO SPARK MORE DISCSNS ABOUT LEVSON’S TREATMENT OF FEMALE NUDY AND WHAT SEEMS LIKE A TACTIC TO FEND HIMSELF OM CRICISM BY UNDATG WH CLOSPS OF PENIS. BUT BACK TO CAL AND DERRICK. THEIR FEELGS FOR ONE ANOTHER FALLY E TO A HEAD WHEN THEY GO TO A BAR AFTER THEIR GRADUATN, START LIP-SYNCG TO INXS’ “NEVER TEAR US APART” THE MOST STEREOTYPIL FASHN, AND SHARE A KISS. THE NEXT MORNG, CAL RECEIV NEWS OM MARSHA THAT SHE’S PREGNANT A VERY “TIMOTHEE CHALAMET AT THE END OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME” MOMENT THAT MAK CAL’S NTEMPT FOR NATE A LOT LS PLITED. THIS BACKSTORY IS TECHNILLY SAD BUT NOT NECSARILY SYMPATHY-EVOKG, NSIRG WHAT WE KNOW TAK PLACE THE FUTURE. SPEAKG OF WHICH, WE JUMP FORWARD TO THE PRENT WHERE RUE IS SGG AND DANCG AROUND TO FRANK SATRA'S “CALL ME IRRPONSIBLE,” AS IF THE LIST OF PRE-LENNIUM SONGS THIS KID KNOWS BY HEART ULDN’T GET ANYMORE ABSURD. GIA TCH HER AND ASKS IF SHE’S HIGH, WHICH LEADS RUE TO A FOURTH-WALL PRENTATN ON “HOW TO GET AWAY WH BEG A DG ADDICT.” BASILLY, RUE TRICKS GIA TO THKG THAT SHE’S SUICIDAL AND, THEREFORE, NEEDS TO SMOKE WEED, WHICH SHE AS A “VER DG” FOR THE HARR STUFF. THIS ZANY SEGMENT SERV AS A REMR THAT NO MATTER HOW “ADULT” THIS PROGRAM IS, MUCH OF THE ACTG REQUIRED OF ZENDAYA IS STILL VERY DISNEY CHANNEL.AFTER TERROGATG ELLTT ABOUT HIS SEXUAL PROCLIVI, JUL IS FALLY NVCED THAT HE’S NOT JT TRYG TO SLEEP WH RUE, AND THE THREE OF THEM BEE THEIR OWN LTLE ODDBALL CLIQUE. THEY PLAY TTH OR DARE AND, LATER ON, ELLT GETS JUL TO ADM THAT RUE ISN’T A SEXUAL PERSON. IN A NOT-SO-SHOCKG TURN OF EVENTS, SEEMS LIKE RUE SHOULD BE NCERNED ABOUT ELLT WANTG TO GET WH JUL. IN A MORE WHOLOME PART OF THE EPISO, LEXI GETS A SELF-THORED PLAY GREENL AT SCHOOL, REPLACG THE UAL PRODUCTN OF OKLAHOMA. RUE STAT VIA VOICEOVER THAT LEXI HAS ALWAYS LIVED HER LIFE AS AN “OBSERVER,” PARED TO CASSIE AND HER BOLR PEERS. SO FAR, WE DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHY LEXI SUFFERS OM SUPPORTG CHARACTER SYNDROME—OTHER THAN THAT’S HOW SHE’S BEEN WRTEN—OR HER POT OF VIEW ON WHAT SHE OBSERV, ASI OM BEWILRMENT. BUT SEEMS AN APPROPRIATE TACTIC FOR AN TROVERT TO GA NTROL OF THEIR LIFE BY NARRATIVIZG AND FORCG OTHER PEOPLE TO WATCH. ANYONE WH A SOCIAL MEDIA ACUNT N SORT OF RELATE.LIKEWISE, LEXI HAS ALWAYS “IMAGED HER LIFE AS A MOVIE,” SO, OF URSE, WE TRANSN TO A SEGMENT OF HER LERALLY PRODUCG A FILM OF HER OWN LIFE, MAKG CASSIE PUT ON HIO STUM AND GIVG A BEHD-THE-SCEN TOUR. SHE TELLS OM A DIRECTOR’S CHAIR THAT “SIKICKS ARE UALLY THE SMARTER, MORE SENSIVE, MORE PELLG CHARACTERS, BUT FOR SOME REASON, THEY JT GET OVERLOOKED.” SUCH AN OVERT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MAK ME WONR WHETHER LEVSON WILL ACTUALLY EXPLORE WHY THIS NOTN IS TE WH LEXI’S CHARACTER OR JT PAYG LIP SERVICE. “BUT SEEMS AN APPROPRIATE TACTIC FOR AN TROVERT TO GA NTROL OF THEIR LIFE BY NARRATIVIZG AND FORCG OTHER PEOPLE TO WATCH. ANYONE WH A SOCIAL MEDIA ACUNT N SORT OF RELATE.” MEANWHILE, WE FD CASSIE WHAT WE N ONLY HOPE IS THE HEIGHT OF HER NROSIS. HER OBSSN WH NATE HAS NOW MANIFTED A THREE-HOUR-LONG BETY ROUTE BEFORE SCHOOL AND FASHN NOVA ENSEMBL TO PROVE HER VOTN TO HIM. ONE OF THE MOST AMG ASPECTS OF THIS SHOW IS S PRENTATN OF GEN Z FASHN AND MAKP TRENDS THAT SEEMS BORRLE PARODIC. LIKEWISE, ’S HILAR TO WATCH CASSIE TRANSFORM HERSELF TO THE CURRENT HYPER-FEME IAL TO THE POT WHERE SHE, A BLON, WHE WOMAN, IS LAYG HER NON-EXISTENT BABY HAIRS AND UNKNOWGLY LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE MADDY.CASSIE’S BT MOMENT THIS EPISO, HOWEVER, IS WHEN SHE SHOWS UP TO SCHOOL WH BOUFFANT HAIR AND A PUFFED-SLEEVED PLAID TOP THAT MAK THE OTHER GIRLS THK SHE’S DNG FOR OKLAHOMA. LIKEWISE, CASSIE, EPLY SULTED, LNCH TO HER MUCH-ANTICIPATED “AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER!” MONOLOGUE, REVEALG HER AFFAIR WH NATE TO MADDY. BUT THANKFULLY, THIS RANT IS ONLY IMAGED.THE CRIME-RELATED PORTNS OF THIS EPISO PROVE THAT THE SHOW REALLY THRIV WHEN FOCED ON RELATNSHIPS AND LOWER-STAK DRAMA. I WOULD’VE MUCH RATHER WATCHED FEZ AND LEXI GO ON AN AWKWARD ICE CREAM DATE. INSTEAD, WE WATCH FEZ AND ASHTRAY TERROGATE CAL AFTER TCHG HIM LURKG OUTSI OF THEIR HOE. CAL ACCINTALLY MENTNS RERDG HIMSELF HAVG SEX WH JUL, ASSUMG FEZ KNEW ABOUT . REALIZG HE’S DUG HIMSELF TO AN EVEN BIGGER HOLE, HE PROMIS TO LEAVE THEM ALONE. BUT I DOUBT THIS WILL BE THE LAST WE SEE OF CAL’S SERIAL KILLER-LIKE TENNCI. SYDNEY SWEENEY EUPHORIA HBO FALLY, RUE CIS TO GET TO DG ALG SO SHE N “DO DGS FOR EE.” SHE UP WH A PLAN THAT VOLV BLACKMAILG STUNT SELLERS WH DATA OM THEIR PHON SO THEY WON’T SNCH. IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT EVEN THE DUMBT TEENAGERS WOULD SIGN UP FOR THIS AS OPPOSED TO WORKG AT THE MALL, BUT THE STOIC DG LORD OM THE SEASON PREMIERE, LRA, THKS ’S BRILLIANT AND GIV HER $10K WORTH OF DGS TO SELL. IT’S UNCLEAR WHETHER RUE WILL FOLLOW THROUGH WH THIS PLAN, BUT IF SHE DON’T LRA TELLS HER SHE’LL BE “KIDNAPPED AND SOLD TO SOME REALLY SICK PEOPLE.”RUE BOLDLY GO STRAIGHT OM LRA’S HOE TO AN AA MEETG, DGS TOW. ALI QUTNS HER AFTERWARDS WH HIS UAL WISECRACKG, BUT RUE ISN’T AMED. SHE GETS HIM UPSET BY CURSG AT HIM AND WALKS OFF WH HER SUSE.“RUMATNS: BIG AND LTLE BULLYS” NCLUS WH CASSIE GETTG STOOD UP BY NATE, WHO SHOWS UP TO MADDY’S WORK WH FLOWERS STEAD. SO FAR, SEEMS LIKE LEVSON DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WH KAT, WHOSE STORYLE THIS EPISO NSISTS OF GOG TO DNER WH ETHAN’S FAY AND STUTTERG OVER A QUTN A BRIEF SCENE. HOWEVER, ISN’T SHOCKG THAT THE WRER OF THIS SHOW IS DISTERTED THE ONLY CHARACTER WH A HEALTHY RELATNSHIP. KYNDALL CUNNGHAM
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT
All I want now is to dance wh Fez to INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart" some roadsi gay dive bar. * gay storyline euphoria *
Euphoria's sophomore season was a roller aster of emotn. In season two episo three ‘Rumatns: Big and Ltle Bullys‘, which dropped on NOWTV the UK this week, the show’s rint villa Cal (Eric Dane) was given a gay orig story worthy of s own movie.
Gay. While Euphoria's first season tablished Cal as an outwardly succsful man wh a secret life, the send season spent two episos lvg to Cal's backstory and then the breakdown he experienc, which clud a spectacular tellg off of his fay, when he n no longer nceal his inty as a gay man any longer.
As an adult, he's married, had two sons, and done well bs, yet he's hnted by the possibily that someone uld disver that he's 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.
EUPHORIA EXPLOR CAL JABS’ SEXUALY WH TRAGIC GAY ROMANTIC BACKSTORY
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And there’s hardly a person wh this ensemble of thoroughly fucked-up characters more sued for this vice than Eric Dane’s Cal ’s eply cliched backstory pretty much wr self thanks to years of teen programmg featurg “the closeted jock” and the wronghead societal notn that the worst men are secretly gay.
He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.
MD THE MEDIA: EUPHORIA'S DEPICTN OF A HIDN GAY INTY, AND S CONSEQUENC
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In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.
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