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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
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• 'ANYONE WHO DO WATER POLO IS AT LEAST A LTLE GAY'
• GAY BEAR DON'T CARE TANK TOP
• 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
• THIS GAY HORSEMAN STARTED PLAYG POLO AT 50, AND HAS THRIVED EVER SCE

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

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. 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.

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

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.

-- 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.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Mcham didn’t extend that urty, I’d have been enamored of him for beg one of the only Olympians to live proudly and openly as a gay man.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

The Gay Olympian: Matthew Mcham. This is Matthew Mcham, an openly-gay Olympic diver om Atralia (talk about a triple crown).

He’s probably the most proment and well-known of the gay men at the gam (at least, he’s the only one I’ve heard about, and the thgs ually manage to trickle down even to the mt obliv of ). Let’s face , the Olympics are practilly gay porn and to pretend otherwise do all a disservice. On May 8 I cid to e out as gay to the world the bt way I knew how -- by postg on Facebook.

I am Gay.

'ANYONE WHO DO WATER POLO IS AT LEAST A LTLE GAY'

Among my favor was om Jake, a teammate, who wrote: "Anyone who do water polo is at least a ltle gay. I've been my high school team's MVP and team pta for water polo sce my sophomore year. I've known that I was gay sce middle school, but I tly didn't accept myself for until the middle of high school.

So I cid to tell a few teammat at a time and see how assistant ach Ey was the first person on my team that I had ever told I was gay. The thg I need to tell you is that I'm gay.

Beg gay will not change who I am....

GAY BEAR DON'T CARE TANK TOP

Beg gay shouldn't be the fg part of me, 's a small part of me the fact that shouldn't change our iendship. If there is one thg that I uld ask of you is that you don't tell anyone about me beg gay. I was so relieved to know that Ey supported me and didn't re that I was gay.

I didn't tell any other teammat that I was gay until I me out publicly on Facebook.

The Gay Polo League me out full force last weekend Palm Sprgs. Especially sce 's what ma Starz's Spartac anchise a h wh (gay) male and female dienc and has also been a draw HBO's h Game of Thron adaptatn. Gay Bear Don't Care Tank Top.

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

Se If You're Gay Tank Top. 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.

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

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. Chip McKenney remembers the moment he realized openly gay men belonged team sports: the day he found the Gay Polo League. When that changed, he began searchg for ways to nnect wh new people — gay lawyers’ associatns, gay bsmen’s clubs.

THIS GAY HORSEMAN STARTED PLAYG POLO AT 50, AND HAS THRIVED EVER SCE

“I didn’t go to gay pri events, and I was a horseman. McKenney started the Gay Polo League 2006, the only LGBTQ polo anizatn the world. Seven years later, the Gay Polo League has only grown, wh membership 14 untri.

Four teams will pete, featurg 16 players, six of whom are openly gay — cludg three pros. They don’t hear the word ‘gay’ so much as they hear that you play Polo and they’re like, ‘Oh, you play Polo, e and play wh .