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• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?

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.

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

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

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. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

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

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

Back 1977, when Ana Bryant mpaigned succsfully to repeal a Da County (FL) ordance prohibg anti-gay discrimatn, she named her anizatn "Save Our Children, " and.

THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

Mark Foley's rignatn om the US Hoe of Reprentativ 2006, antigay activists and their supporters seized on the sndal to revive this nard. Ined, the Vatin's early rponse to the 2002 revelatns of wispread Church ver-ups of sexual abe by prits was to clare that gay men should not be ordaed. "Homosexuals are dangero as teachers or youth lears bee they try to get sexually volved wh children" or that "Homosexuals try to play sexually wh children if they nnot get an adult partner.

By ntrast, a 1999 natnal poll, the belief that most gay men are likely to molt or abe children was endorsed by only 19% of heterosexual men and 10% of heterosexual women. The adjective "homosexual" (or "heterosexual" when a man ab a female child) refers to the victim's genr relatn to that of the perpetrator. "The distctn between homosexual and heterosexual child molters reli on the premise that male molters of male victims are homosexual orientatn.

For the prent discsn, the important pot is that many child molters nnot be meangfully scribed as homosexuals, heterosexuals, or bisexuals ( the ual sense of those terms) bee they are not really pable of a relatnship wh an adult man or woman. Other rearchers have taken different approach, but have siarly failed to fd a nnectn between homosexualy and child moltatn.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

some Canadian rearchers observed how homosexual and heterosexual adult men rpond to slis of mal and femal of var ag (child, pubcent, and mature adult). In summary, each of the studi failed to support the hypothis that homosexual mal are more likely than heterosexual men to molt children or to be sexually attracted to children or adolcents.

Are homosexual adults general sexually attracted to children and are preadolcent children at greater risk of moltatn om homosexual adults than om heterosexual adults? There appears to be practilly no reportage of sexual moltatn of girls by lbian adults, and the adult male who sexually molts young boys is not likely to be homosexual.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

This well known lack of a lkage between homosexualy and child moltatn acunts for why relatively ltle rearch has directly addrsed the issue. Pediatrics noted that bat about gay people as molters "have ltle to do wh everyday child abe" and lamented that they distract lawmakers and the public om alg wh the real problem of children's sexual mistreatment (Kgman, 1994). the qutn of whether gay people shouldn't be tsted posns of thory where there is any opportuny for sexually harassg or abg others.

Scientific rearch provis no evince that homosexual people are ls likely than heterosexuals to exercise good judgment and appropriate discretn their employment settgs.

There are no data, for example, showg that gay men and lbians are more likely than heterosexual men and women to sexually harass their subordat the workplace.

HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

Data om studi g a variety of psychologil measur do not dite that gay people are more likely than heterosexuals to posss any psychologil characteristics that would make them ls pable of ntrollg their sexual urg, reag om the abe of power, obeyg l and laws, teractg effectively wh others, or exercisg good judgment handlg thory. The rearch lerature don't reveal any differenc between heterosexuals, bisexuals, and homosexuals job performance or abily to properly exercise thory supervisory rol.

As dited by workplace polici around the Uned Stat, a large and growg number of private and public employers do not perceive a problem wh hirg gay and bisexual people as employe or managers. Ined, one wily ced reason for offerg such benefs is that they enable a pany to rema petive by attractg high qualy employe who happen to be gay, lbian, or bisexual.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?

Th, there is no factual basis for anizatns to avoid hirg homosexual or bisexual people, simply on the basis of their sexual orientatn, for posns that volve rponsibily for or supervisn of others, whether children, adolcents, or adults.

Some nservative groups have argued that scientific rearch strongly supports their claims that homosexualy and pedophilia are lked. On further examatn, however, s central argument – that "the evince dit that homosexual men molt boys at rat grossly disproportnate to the rat at which heterosexual men molt girls" – don't hold up. The abstract summariz the thors' ncln: "Fdgs dite that homosexual mal who preferred mature partners rpond no more to male children than heterosexual mal who preferred mature partners rpond to female children.