Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. His announcement is a first for a male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league.
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JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
RELATED: Whether You’re Gay Or Straight, The Naked Barber Will Shave You Anywhere You Want. The Birth of Qcc The Center for Lbian Gay Bi Transgenr Art & Culture. The agency barely managed to survive for another year signalg a utly hopeful sign for stgglg arts 1993 iends the arts and polics of the lbian and gay movement based San Francis joed forc to create the San Francis Lbian and Gay Center for Art and Culture.
Regnizg that there was no reposory for actual works of art nor any place to cubate ias relatg to gay culture, anizers began to map a plan for the achievement of this visnary goal. At issue was the pattern of major arts stutns such as the lol opera, symphony and mms enjoyg the ln’s share of available municipal dollars while the smaller to mid-sized non-profs, often n by women, muni of lor and lbians or gay men, were left to survive on disproportnately paltry the majors argued that they served more and stated that, percentage wise, they received no more or ls than their due, no one uld serly dispute the fact that the moni were hand out wh virtually no mechanism for public scty, a policy which outraged the smaller arts groups. Polil activist and photographer, Carol Stuart and artist and activist Rudy Lemcke enlisted wrer and arts nsultant, Jeff Jon and set signer and assistant artistic director for the gay performance group Theater Rhoceros, Pam Peniston to anize around the ia of creatg an LGBT Mm.
They were later joed by photographer Greg Day; pater Lenore Chn; curator Adrienne Fuzee; filmmaker Osa Hidalgo- la Riva; photographer Freddie Niem and performance artist Blackberri to form the first board of directors of the San Francis Center for Lbian Gay Bi and Transgenr Art and Culture. Seeg that historic attempts to tablish a cultural center for the gay muny often succumbed to poorly planned strategi or simply the wds of polil change, anizers took the longer but perhaps more tablished route of long range planng. Jackson advoted for gay rights and people wh AIDS when was nsired a gay man’s disease.