Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
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- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- IN A LLEGE FOOTBALL FIRST, HBCU PLAYER OUT AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- 8 OPENLY GAY AND BI LLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYERS PLAYED SEASON ON THEIR TERMS
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
* first gay college football *
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. A Hampton Universy football player me out publicly as gay, a first for a football player at a historilly Black llege or universy, acrdg to, an LGBTQ sports news se.
Byron Perks, a Divisn I fensive back for the Hampton Universy Pirat, me out as gay an Instagram story shared Wednday.
IN A LLEGE FOOTBALL FIRST, HBCU PLAYER OUT AS GAY
A Hampton Universy football player me out publicly as gay, a first for a football player at a historilly Black llege or universy, acrdg to Outspor * first gay college football *
I’m gay, let be known that this is not a ‘cisn’ or a ‘choice.
’ Y, this is who I am, this is who I’ve been, and this is who I’m gog to be, ” Perks wrote the story, acrdg to (Instagram stori are only available for 24 hours, so Perks’ origal story is no longer viewable) several Divisn I football players have e out as gay durg their llege reers — cludg the College of Idaho’s Cy Hicks, Amherst College’s Avery Saffold and Kansas State’s Stt Frantz — Perks is the first to do so at one of the untry’s 101 HBCUs, acrdg to both Outsports and Perks. Perks told Outsports that he’d like to help other gay Black men who are stgglg wh their sexualy.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * first gay college football *
“There hasn’t been an out gay football athlete at an HBCU. “I’m sure the young man has heard his fair share of slurs om teammat unaware that he is gay. Cyd Zeigler, the -founr of Outsports, noted that “so many ‘first’ gay athlet — John Amaechi, Jason Colls, Michael Sam — have been Black men.
Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. For six of the eight openly gay or bi llege football players, 2019 has marked the end of their llegiate reers, wh five graduatg and one cidg to stop playg football. Of the eight teams that had an openly gay or bi player, four played on teams wh wng rerd and four on teams wh losg rerds.
By beg openly gay while playg our most popular sport, the athlet upend what long had been a stereotype of the impossibily of out players thrivg football.
8 OPENLY GAY AND BI LLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYERS PLAYED SEASON ON THEIR TERMS
Here is how the eight gay or bi players and their teams fared this season:. Frantz, openly gay, is the team’s startg left tackle and will play his fal llegiate game the Wildts’ bowl game, which will be termed this weekend.
Capal went 0-10, but Pertet end his reer wh a distctn 2018 of the beg the first openly gay player to sre a llege football touchdown. Cy Hicks, College of Idaho (NAIA) offensive leman, sophomore. Hicks, openly gay, redshirted after season-endg surgery for a torn labm.