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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.

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HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

Supporters and crics of the "Don't Say Gay" bill differ on whether would prevent the "stctn" or "discsn" of sexual orientatn or genr inty * no gay florida *

But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial. ” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist. For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te.

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

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The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn.

DESANTIS-BACKED 'DONT SAY GAY' BILL SPARKS OUTRAGE

Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * no gay florida *

“The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn.

”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.

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DESANTIS SIGNS FLORIDA BILL THAT OPPONENTS CALL ‘DON’T SAY GAY’

Let’s be clear: the “Don’t Say Gay” bill will do real and lastg harm, wre Am Paley and Joe Snrs. * no gay florida *

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.

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

The advisory lists many of the velopments that have ma Florida ls safe beyond the var anti-LGBTQ+ laws that have been enacted, such as laws rtrictg abortn rights and reproductive tn, and the elimatn of Ain-Amerin studi, as well as an crease of homophobic and racial harassment and vlence. In orr to get hard data on how DeSantis’ culture war is impactg LGBTQ+ fai Florida, rearchers at UCLA’s Whe Instute nducted a survey to measure the rponse of LGBTQ+ fai to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL IS CEL AND DANGERO

The report was released last January, and don’t reflect rponse to the latt round of anti-LGBTQ+ laws to e out of Tallahassee — cludg expandg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill to ver all school gras K-12.

Acrdg to the survey, “9 out of 10 (88%) LGBTQ parents are very or somewhat ncerned about the impact that HB 1557 [the “Don’t Say Gay” bill] will have on them and their children, wh one four reportg they have experienced anti-LGBTQ+ harassment sce the law was passed and one five reportg beg ls out their muni sce the law was passed. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

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