Kev Maxen be first male ach a US men’s pro sports league to publicly e out as gay | CNN

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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

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

Jam Harris looks at the recent Pakillers ma me gay story that featured the UK prs and looks at the potential damagg effect this n have on people who are tryg to e to terms wh their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

You may have already heard the recent story that featured the tabloid prs about the young man who turned gay after takg pakillers…or so he claims. Acrdg to his own terpretatn of events, Stt Purdy was a ‘hot-blood’ heterosexual who enjoyed datg women, but when the 23-year-old was prcribed the pakiller Pregabal for a long-term ankle jury, he sists he lost his sexual attractn to women and beme gay.

Perhaps Purdy had experienced signifint homophobia his life and harboured levels of ternalised shame so lible and profound, he end up supprsg his te sexualy so much he was even able to nvce himself that his pill story was real.

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

" Perhaps this openns enuraged him to stop supprsg his homosexualy. The possibily that you are gay - or somewhere on the LGBT+ spectm - shouldn’t be a ‘troublg notn’ at all. There is nothg whatsoever ‘fundamentally at flt’ about beg gay/bi/transgenr/etc.

Fally, even if we nsir that environmental factors uld so drastilly change someone’s sexualy, do actually matter how or why people are gay, whether the are ternal or external, whether fabulons the form of a pill or a pickled onn? Who knows, perhaps the pill did turn him gay; acrdg to Attu magaze, “si effects do clu a loss of libido”, so perhaps there’s a nnectn here. Believe or not, s of sudn, extreme shifts sexual orientatn supposedly triggered by external ndns is not unprecented; 2011, Chris Birch om Caerphilly, Wal suffered a stroke triggered by a eak accint, and claimed afterwards that this had turned him om straight to gay.

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. -- 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.