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

Contents:

• PASANA’S ONLY GAY BAR LNCH CROWDFUNDG CAMPAIGN TO RAISE $50,000
• NYC’S ONLY BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR IS CROWDFUNDG TO SURVIVE
• NOVEL REJECTED AS 'TOO GAY' RECEIV FLOOD OF CROWDFUNDG SUPPORT
• GAY COUPL TURN TO CROWDFUNDG AS SURROGACY EXPENS AND INSURANCE DENIALS MOUNT
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• HI, GAY! - CANNED VODKA SODA BRAND CREATED BY AND FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AIMS TO DTIGMATIZE THE WORD 'GAY', LNCH WH FOUR INIC FLAVORS

PASANA’S ONLY GAY BAR LNCH CROWDFUNDG CAMPAIGN TO RAISE $50,000

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NYC’S ONLY BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR IS CROWDFUNDG TO SURVIVE

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NOVEL REJECTED AS 'TOO GAY' RECEIV FLOOD OF CROWDFUNDG SUPPORT

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GAY COUPL TURN TO CROWDFUNDG AS SURROGACY EXPENS AND INSURANCE DENIALS MOUNT

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CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

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A novel that was rejected more than 30 tim by publishers for beg “too gay” has been undated wh backg om nam cludg David Walliams, Mark Gatiss and SJ Watson after s thor turned to Ca’s The Madonna of Bolton tells the story of Charlie Matthews, who falls love wh Madonna on his nth birthday. Lnched on the crowdfundg se Unbound this week, has already racked up 60% of what needs to be published, wh backers also cludg One Day thor David Nicholls and the btsellg wrer Lisa, the edor of Attu magaze, said the support for his book – which is on urse to be the fastt-fund novel on Unbound – showed there was a market for a mercial novel about a gay man, even though publishers rejected as “too workg class, too 80s, too immersed pop culture, and too gay” Guardian has seen the rejectn letters, cludg some om major UK publishers.

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

Most of them say the novel ‘isn’t mercial enough’ or ‘too niche’ and then an edor tells my agent off the rerd that gay don’t sell, ” said Ca. “Nobody out on email as sayg ’s too gay, ’s kd of drsed up – the thg about homophobia is ’s often vert. ”Ca was clear that the book was not aimed solely at gay men – “It’s a fay drama more than anythg else”.

But “even if you jt take the gay people, do not erase as a market, ” he said. ”Ca said he was always hant to “play the [homophobia] rd, but the tth is phobia means fear, not hatred, [and] I was jt readg the rejectn letters and thkg ‘there’s a real fear of this not sellg, they’re assumg ’s only the very telligent society who read lerary fictn who unrstand and accept gay people’. “I started Shot Through the Heart as a reactn to all the edors tellg me gay don’t sell.

“For the send book, my edor phed me towards bonkbter style, and I had lots of sex scen wh straight characters but only one mor sex scene wh gay characters and I was told to take out or I wouldn’t get stocked Asda or T. ”Ca said he had spoken wh many gay wrers who had enuntered ristance om publishers when wrg about gay life. “Don’t tell me there’s no one out there who wants to read about gay liv.

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

”Ca’s edor at Unbound, Katy Gut, said that the crowdfundg for The Madonna of Bolton showed that publishers were wrong thkg there was no dience for mercial fictn wh a gay protagonist. “Other publishers rejected this for beg too niche – by which they mean too gay – but the support we’re gettg already beli this. EM Forster said about Mrice that he knew no publisher would let him publish a gay love story wh a happy endg, ” she said.

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As per Bs Insir India, Noah and Tyler Tyner-Dernulc, a gay uple, started a GoFundMe mpaign to raise funds for their surrogacy journey but have only managed to raise $190 out of the $140, 750 they need. Health surance provirs equently ny verage for IVF procr to gay upl, cg a lack of fertily diagnosis.

HI, GAY! - CANNED VODKA SODA BRAND CREATED BY AND FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AIMS TO DTIGMATIZE THE WORD 'GAY', LNCH WH FOUR INIC FLAVORS

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