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• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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

Moonlight an enticg film showg three parts of a gay Ain Amerin male’s life. His life livg a rough neighborhood and beg surround by homophob. This film monstrat two typ of homophobia.

Is there a way for children who have yet to go through the procs of sexual awarens to be able to notice that Chiron is gay when he don’t yet know? Could be fluenced by the awarens of surroundg homophobia?

Eher way is evint throughout this whole movie that Kev is not homophobic, at least the most leral way but that will be vered later.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

(115) Asi om the over evint display of homophobia, Kev’s acunt on his sexual prowls is another monstratn of the old man masculy the characters this film posss. So n be said that Kev is homophobic? Even though he is probably homosexual?

Homophobia is fed as “culturally produced fear of or prejudice agast homosexuals” is evint that Kev was homophobic his youth, but now seems to be more exceptg even wh his evint heterosexual liftyle. “Homophobia”. Photo cred: Gay Global Time.

-- 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.

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

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. I am no way homophobic, but jt saw somethg else the movie. Also, I am not poor, black, or gay, so I have stggled wh what to say about a film that clus the elements, and have stggled if I am even allowed to.

[2]It would have been easy for the film to have foced more on the livg ndns of Chiron, and the problems herent wh, that livg as a gay mory the projects might lend self to.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

After Chiron asks him and Juan’s partner, Thera (Janelle Monae), what the word “faggot” means, and how would he know whether he is gay or not.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Others might ll him nam — faggot, for example — or thk he’s somethg that he’s not — Kev challengg him about his chosen life of “Trapp’ — but, when down to , though Chiron needs other people his life, the way that we all do, he will have to disver who he is for is black, he is gay, he is a man. It do not pe me that I am a whe, privileged, heterosexual male wrg about a movie that is about a protagonist that is black, margalized, and gay.

How many young actors, let alone young black actors, would choose a gay movie as their first real troductn to the world? Regardls of one's orientatn, Hollywood, for all s left-leang bloviatn, is still homophobic -- and pretty racist. Once upon a time, not so long ago, playg gay was a shortcut to eher obscury or an Osr, pendg on how well you died at the end of the film.

But Moonlight is not jt any gay movie. Not jt the black muny, or the gay muny, or the black gay muny, but, fuck, the world.

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

Portra of Jason was the first time a film nsired the black homosexual Ameri.

"In McCraney's world, dg alers are father figur, kids play soccer wh balled-up newspapers, and homosexualy is bt left unsaid, unacknowledged, and unexplored. "I felt that there was a lot of rponsibily the fact that we don't see movi that are centered on the g-of-age of a young gay black man, " says Jenks. And on top of that, he wasn't gay.

This story, this g-of-age tale of a young black gay man, belonged there -- film, Hollywood, Ameri. In 2016, the fal year of his princy, the year that gave Tmp as a rebuttal to that boldns, we saw Beyonce exalt Black Pri at the Super Bowl, the biggt stage on the pla; we saw her sister Solange crystallize the anguish of police btaly and systemic racism wh her acclaimed album A Seat at the Table; we saw Pl Beatty w the Man Booker Prize (the first Amerin, black or otherwise, to nab the prtig Br lerary award -- jt a year after gay black wrer Marlon Jam did); we saw #BlackGirlMagic full, medal-snatchg force at the R Olympics; we saw Donald Glover's Atlanta and Issa Rae's Insecure and Ava DuVernay's 13th and Queen Sugar add further glimmer to televisn's goln age; and we saw Moonlight hailed as a masterpiece, ld the bt film of the year by a chos of ghg we wnsed was a thrillg renaissance of black culture and black inty. The assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars has bee the first male ach ever the NFL -- or Amerin men's pro sports altogether -- to publicly e out as gay.