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

Contents:

• COLLEGE BASKETBALL ACH OUT AS GAY, BEE ‘I DON’T WANT TO DIE WH THE LIE’
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

COLLEGE BASKETBALL ACH OUT AS GAY, BEE ‘I DON’T WANT TO DIE WH THE LIE’

I’m gay.

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

I didn’t thk about beg gay or that part of me as much.

I worked so hard to shut off that si of my life, that I built up a sort of self-homophobia.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

I don’t know why I assumed beg gay was wrong, but I tried to jt be “normal” (that is, straight).

Beg gay weighed on my md, day and night, more and more.

The note explaed that I was gay. I didn’t want to be known as the “Gay Basketball Coach. We had some small talk for a while and then I got to the pot and jt me out wh : “I’m gay.

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

It’s important that I try and share my story and do my part to help normalize beg gay. I don’t know if I will be able to get another llege basketball job as an openly gay ach, but I refe to take any job where I am not my thentic self. The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U.

While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U. When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.

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