Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen out publicly as gay

Contents:

• DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• ‘DUCK DYNASTY’S’ PHIL ROBERTSON ON INFE HIAT FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY REMARKS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI

The TV show Dynasty featured a gay in (and her son). But for years, spe the show’s anythg-go nature, there was one thg that Dynasty uldn’t get away wh: showg a happy homosexual.

Puttg a gay man on one of the most inic and popular shows of the was a long, multi-year fight — both on-screen and behd-the-scen — but was nothg pared to the battle took to keep him there.

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

The story of Dynasty’s ntroversial gay son starts back 1979 wh, of all thgs, the oil crisis.

And the son, Steven, who’s hidg his homosexualy om his nservative dad.

” There had seldom been any recurrg gay characters on primetime TV — there was Jody on Soap, a fotten barfly on The Corner Bar, and gut-player Lori Shannon as Beverly LaSalle on All the Fay. Dynasty’s pilot posns Steven ont and center, wh a climactic scene which Blake nonts his son about beg gay. He mands that Steven “straighten yourself out, ” hurls slurs at him, and sists that Steven never brg homosexualy to the hoe.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

There was so much stigma around homosexualy then that for many queer people, was simply easier to acquice and pretend they’d gone straight — pecially around fay.

Over the 1970s, there had been a steady rise gay characters, acpanyg the growg queer liberatn movement.

) But the rise gay visibily on televisn ran to a brick wall late 1980s wh the electn of Ronald Reagan. There were over a dozen gay characters on TV 1979, but by 1981 there were almost none.

‘DUCK DYNASTY’S’ PHIL ROBERTSON ON INFE HIAT FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY REMARKS

He’d appeared on a gay-ish episo of The Love Boat a year earlier, and had lots of ias for where he uld take one of TV’s only gay characters. And then there was Newt Dieter, a gay muny lear who was often sought out by TV producers to vet their scripts.

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

His job was to make sure Dynasty didn’t ploy any offensive trop; for example, he advoted for a rctn the number of f-slurs, as well as removal of the somewhat ls egreg phrase “gay schmay. So when this pilot fally aired, was wh a lot of liberate work on the part of creators, the producer, the actor, and even a gay muny lear to make sure they got the Steven character right.

And bee of the sudn reluctance to put gay characters on TV the wake of Reagan’s electn, Dynasty wound up beg one of the only shows of s time to even attempt a storyle like this. Dynasty eely showed Steven gettg gay bashed, he jt uldn’t have have a gay kiss.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Season 1 ends wh Blake on trial for murr, which provis ample opportuny for him to reerate his homophobia.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

The show’s settg up a real-life legal tactic known as a “gay panic fense, ” whereby a person argu that they were so upset by the prence of a homosexual that they beme, for legal purpos, temporarily sane, and therefore no longer legally rponsible for their actns. A study 2020 found that gay and trans panic fens rulted urts rcg charg 33% of s where was ed. Blake was origally gog to be found not guilty until Newt Dieter tervened, aghast that the show would pict the killg of a gay man as havg zero nsequenc.