Jaguars strength ach is first male ach a major US-based pro league to e out as gay - The Boston Globe

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• A RSIAN POLICIAN THKS U2'S ALBUM COVER IS 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• WATCH U2 TURN AN OLD H INTO A GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM  CHIGO

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

Why do gay people tend to flock to U2, specifilly to Boy? People say when the album me out, attracted lots of gay men, and was played a lot gay bars.

Apparently people read the lyrics and assumed there were some homoerotic msag ?... Some people assume this is a homoerotic le? I'm absolutely not hatg on gay people here, I'm jt cur to get some more ntext, bee there's not a lot of rmatn about onle that I've seen.

A RSIAN POLICIAN THKS U2'S ALBUM COVER IS 'GAY PROPAGANDA'

A Rsian legislator has acced Apple and the band U2 of vlatg the Rsian law "agast gay propaganda among mors" by uploadg U2's latt album, Songs of Innocence, to iTun ctomers…. A Rsian legislator has acced Apple and the band U2 of vlatg the Rsian law “agast gay propaganda among mors” by uploadg U2’s latt album, Songs of Innocence, to iTun ctomers worldwi, cludg Rsia, September 2014.

Alexanr Starovoov, a member of the Rsian State Duma, the lower chamber of Parliament, asked the Prosecutor’s Office to vtigate the cint and le whether me as a breach of the ntroversial legislatn adopted two years ago and wily viewed as a crackdown on the Rsian gay muny general. However, Rsia, where homophobic attus have been mon over the last uple of years, Starovoov’s terpretatn of the ver image don’t e as a surprise. In late 2013, a promoter of Lady Gaga‘s Rsian show was fed unr the “gay propaganda” law.

Last year, several Rsia hard-le officials, cludg legislator Valy Milonov, the ma proponent of the law “agast gay propaganda, ” ridiculed cross-drser Concha Wurst‘s Eurovisn Song Contt victory and lled for banng the sger om tourg Rsia and boyttg Eurovisn. Later the same year, followg Apple CEO Tim Cook‘s announcement that he is gay, a monument to Steve Jobs and Apple was removed om a St.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

Acrdg to The Guardian, the member of Rsia’s nservative LDPR party has asked his untry’s attorney general to vtigate Apple, which gave away the band’s latt album to more than 500 ln iTun ctomers, for distributg “gay propaganda” to the youths of Rsia. ” But bee neher father nor son are wearg shirts the image—and, okay, bee fathers and sons don’t ually embrace like that—Starovoov thks the ver promot gay sex stead. Are U2 homophobic?

None of the band members are gay nor are any of their management.

Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy. The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch.

WATCH U2 TURN AN OLD H INTO A GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM  CHIGO

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Bono, lead sger wh U2, talks to Gay Byrne about makg the vio for 'New Year's Day', playg the Danln market and why he thks dgs are borg. Prenter Gay Byrne terviews Bono of U2.