Jaguars Strength Coach Kev Maxen Com Out As Gay

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• BENJAM PATRICK BSEY GAY OBUARY
• PATRICK HAGGERTY, TRAILBLAZG GAY UNTRY STAR, DI AT 78
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• BENJAM PATRICK BSEY GAY
• GAY UNTRY MIC IN PATRICK HAGGERTY DIED MONDAY AT AGE 78
• PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78
• LAVENR COUNTRY'S PATRICK HAGGERTY WAS EMBRACED AS GAY UNTRY MIC'S RADIL ELR
• PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK DI AT 85

BENJAM PATRICK BSEY GAY OBUARY

One, Betty Carraro, who is Lata, will be the unn secretary; the other, Lethimyle Cleveland, who is Black and Vietname, will be the first openly gay board member. Benjam Patrick Bsey Gay. We are sad to announce that on April 5, 2023 we had to say goodbye to Benjam Patrick Bsey Gay (Berea, Kentucky), born Lexgton, Kentucky.

You n send your sympathy the gutbook provid and share wh the is survived by: his parents, Benjam Patrick Gay and Kim Bsey; his children, McKenna Grace Gay and Gage Isiah Gay; his brother Braen H. Gay; his son Greyson Gay; his grandparents, Bennie Gay (late Esther), Rodney and Helen Bsey; and his nts, Kelly Evans (Howard), Lha McIntosh (Bill), Misty Brown (John) and Buffie Blair.

He uld be the dtry-iendly untry star and rema the closet, or he uld e mic to make a statement about what was like beg a gay man a eply discrimatory world. He chose the latter, and 1973’s “Lavenr Country, ” Haggerty’s first album rerd unr the same name, is now wily nsired the first untry album rerd by an out gay mician.

PATRICK HAGGERTY, TRAILBLAZG GAY UNTRY STAR, DI AT 78

“Lavenr Country” was a fiantly queer rerd, wh songs like “Cry’ The C**ksuck’ Tears, ” durg a time when few micians any genre were fortable g out as gay. He was kicked out of the Peace Corps the ’60s for beg gay, he told CNN earlier this year. He told Pchfork 2014 that his gay iends Seattle were “who we ma for, and that’s who we played to.

That ll wh Greav was the first step to retroducg Haggerty and Lavenr Country to new listeners, many of whom had been hungry for an out gay untry star. He performed the songs he’d wrten more than 40 years earlier wh new gay untry stars like Orville Peck and Trixie Mattel, who’ve both found nsirable succs for tegratg their inti to their acts. Com Out As Gay.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen jt me out as gay... Gay untry mic in Patrick Haggerty died Monday at age 78 Country mic artist and activist Patrick Haggerty died Monday at age 78. Gay untry mic in Patrick Haggerty died Monday at age 78.

Haggerty broke ground as the first openly gay untry mic artist wh the group Lavenr Country. He first began to unrstand he was gay while growg up on a dairy farm Washgton State the 1950s. And if you n around spendg your whole life thkg that you're dog the wrong thg, then you'll your immortal out of all the thgs a father 1959 uld have told his gay son, my father tells me to be proud of myself and not sneak.

BENJAM PATRICK BSEY GAY

The redisvery of an album he rerd 1973 brought him renown as the first openly gay untry S.

Warren/Associated PrsPatrick Haggerty, who 1973 released an album of untry songs about same-sex romance that sold only 1, 000 pi and seemed sted for eternal obscury until, four s later, s redisvery brought him renown as the first openly gay untry sger, died on Oct. Haggerty’s youth hardly acknowledged the existence of homosexualy, and when did, the referenc were oblique and mockg. Haggerty the unual — he equently lled “absurd” — clatn to make gay untry had been spired to e out of the closet after learng about the 1969 Stonewall uprisg New York, creded wh igng the gay-rights movement.

GAY UNTRY MIC IN PATRICK HAGGERTY DIED MONDAY AT AGE 78

He soon joed a lol Seattle chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front, which helped form a gay muny center and held 1972, he lnched himself on what would bee his most endurg form of activism: creatg a band lled Lavenr Country, sentially a solo project which he got help om a few iends Seattle.

PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78

He wrote most of the songs, played atic guar and sang lead on the group’s but album, also lled “Lavenr Country, ” which was sponsored by a lol gay social servic group.

The mic sometim ma for a ntrast wh the lyrics, which uld be mpy — “Back the Closet Aga” imaged a revolutn which “a battaln of gay men brought up the rear/Packg two grenas each brassiere” — but there were also songs of prott and lament. ”Lavenr Country attracted lol attentn, performg at gay pri paras Seattle and San Francis and eventually sellg out a n of 1, 000 pi of s album.

Haggerty “the lost pneer of out gay untry mic.

LAVENR COUNTRY'S PATRICK HAGGERTY WAS EMBRACED AS GAY UNTRY MIC'S RADIL ELR

Haggerty’s ballad of gay cisg, “I Can’t Shake the Stranger Out of You. ” Lavenr Country’s first new album 49 world had changed: Now a major untry star like Brandi Carlile n be a gay marriage, and an openly gay man like Lil Nas X n have a untry h wh “Old Town Road.

Wherever he went he found young micians, many of them gay or transgenr, to acpany him. In recent years he had been performg his s-old mic on tour wh young micians, many of them gay or Bent, via Getty ImagPatrick Ambrose Haggerty was born on Sept.

Haggerty died soon thereafter, when Patrick was he earned a bachelor’s gree soclogy om Wtern Washgton Universy 1966, he joed the Peace Corps; he was kicked out the same year for beg gay. The Haggerty fay doctor sent him to a mental hospal, but he checked himself out when he realized that he was not gog to be cured of homosexualy. Haggerty me to embrace radil polics, nng unsuccsfully 1991 for the Washgton State Senate as a socialist on what he lled “a Black-Gay uny slate, ” joed by members of the Natn of addn to Mr.

PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT ROBERT PATRICK DI AT 85

’”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 28 of the New York edn wh the headle: Patrick Haggerty, ‘Lost Pneer’ of Gay Country Mic, Di at 78. Lavenr Country, led by sger and songwrer Patrick Haggerty, released what wily nsired the first openly gay untry album 1973.

But was jt the last half-dozen years or so that Lavenr Country's but — the self-tled, 10-song set he and his origal bandmat ma back 1973 — enjoyed wi regnn as the first openly gay untry album. " as though ought to be self-evint that a boy who grew up a Hank Williams-lovg, dairy-farmg hoehold Washgton state and went on to bee an openly gay and polilly radilized man would reach for untry songwrg as a tool of agatn.

He was acutely aware that songwrg advotg for a Marxist and tersectnal visn of gay liberatn would be unmarketable almost any genre the late '70s. What enabled him and his mil -nspirators Michael Carr, Eve Morris and Robert Hammerstrom to make that first Lavenr Country album, and prs 1, 000 pi of , was the grassroots fundg they received om Gay Communy Social Servic of Seattle, where they lived.