How the ‘No Gay Thursday’ hazg rual has divid a town

Sayg he no longer wanted "to feel like I have to lie" about who he is, Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out publicly as gay on Thursday * no gay thursday *

Maxen origally ntacted gay NFL player Carl Nassib Febary 2022, who then nnected Maxen wh Outsports. -- 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.

New York (CNN) — In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. 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 IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

Jacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen, who joed the team last year, me out publicly as gay an terview wh Outsports published on Thursday, beg the first ach a U.S. men’s profsnal league to do so" emprop="scriptn * no gay thursday *

Gay Water, however, is out and proud. 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. “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. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

Three senr football players at a suburban Philalphia high school have been charged wh assltg a hman wh a broom handle on what the team lled "No Gay Thursday," a prosecutor announced Friday. * no gay thursday *

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.

A Pennsylvania prosecutor took an unual step to fend his office’s vtigatn to a hazg tradn known as “No Gay Thursday” at a suburban Philalphia high school — sayg he wants to snuff out the misreprentatn of facts and victim shamg.

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But Thursday’s letter left no qutn as to how prosecutors saw the se, cludg nfirmatn that a regular hazg rual known as “No Gay Thursdays” occurred at the school, as well as a generally unsupervised locker room allowg the practice to ntue.

Acrdg to Hogan, the “No Gay Thursdays” was a tradn started by the football team at least three or four years ago, which behavr the team normally nsired to be “gay” was nsired “not gay” on Thursdays, The hazg sndal has quickly gaed natnal attentn and ntu to appear articl om the New York Tim to the Washgton Post. But another important issue is this so-lled “No Gay Thursday” weekly hazg tradn – and the expectatn om many the muny (cludg myself) that the admistratn n (and should) stute a zero-tolerance hazg policy gog forward.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

* The activi sometim occurred unr the label of “No Gay Thursday.

“No Gay Thursday” is ignorant, tolerant, and has no place any school.

FOOTBALL PLAYERS ACCED OF VLATG TEAMMATE ON "NO GAY THURSDAY"

Even though no gay stunts were specific targets of discrimatn, the practice self is an afont to all. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Jki 061422 Jagstudayrookiemimp 08Image: Bob Self/Florida Tim-Unn / USA TODAY NETWORKSayg he no longer wanted "to feel like I have to lie" about who he is, Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out publicly as gay on ThursdayNajee Harris ments on Saquon Barkley and the value of RBsOffEnglishHe is believed to be the first male ach a major Amerin pro sport to e said an terview published on the Outsports webse, "It wasn't until recently -- and wh the immense love and support of my fay, my iends, lleagu and peers, and the urage and sacrifice om my partner -- that I realized I have the right and rponsibily to love and be loved, and that maybe sharg this will hopefully give someone else the strength to accept their own life and take ntrol of their own story.

'NO-GAY THURSDAY' -- ANOTHER HORRIBLE CHAPTER OF HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS HAZG

Multiple female ach the NFL have e out a gay, acrdg to numero media reports.

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. 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.

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U. Kev Maxen me out as gay an terview wh Outsports.

'NO-GAY THURSDAY:' HORRID ABE ALLEGED AT CONTOGA

Three senr football players at a suburban Philalphia high school have been charged wh assltg a hman wh a broom handle on what the team lled "No Gay Thursday, " a prosecutor announced 17-year-old stunts at Contoga High School held down a 14-year-old boy on Oct. "It jt happened to be a perfect storm of this 'No Gay Thursday' tradn and them not likg this hman and takg out on him a pretty horrible way, " he told the AP.

3 SENRS CHARGED WH HAZG HMAN ON 'NO GAY THURSDAY'

"No Gay Thursdays" was a tradn started by the football team at least three or four years ago, which behavr the team normally nsired to be "gay" was nsired "not gay" on Thursdays, Hogan players would e up behd younger players and put their genals atop the younger players' heads, among other sexually explic or suggtive acts, the prosecutor said the players also had a tradn of what they lled "blsg each other, " which a stunt, wh his hand spread wi, would h another player on the backsi or back wh such force would leave a five-fgered mark. ” Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

Big onle 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. ” For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. ” 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.

The alleged attack happened on a Thursday -- or "No-Gay Thursday, " as players had lled the day for at least three years. The votn of "No-Gay Thursday" -- which, quotg prosecutors, said volved upperclassmen puttg "their genals on younger stunts' head and ground their bodi agast their legs, " among other acts -- certaly helps the argument that the kid of hazg cints are sexual experimentatn wh the goal of reaffirmg masculy and heterosexualy. "Hogan said upperclassmen on the football team had held No-Gay Thursdays for at least the last three years.

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"Will Kle, 16, said he had heard stunts say sually, "Oh, 's No-Gay Thursday, " but did not know about physil abe. Three senr football players at a suburban Philalphia high school have been charged wh assltg a hman wh a broom handle on what the team lled "No Gay Thursday, " a prosecutor announced Friday. "No Gay Thursdays" was a tradn started by the football team at least three or four years ago, which behavr the team normally nsired to be "gay" was nsired "not gay" on Thursdays, Hogan said.

The Gayly - 3/4/2016 @ 12:38 p. Three varsy football players at Contoga High School Berwyn, PA were charged today wh crim related to a hazg rual known as "no gay Thursday.

'No-Gay Thursday' -- Another Horrible Chapter of High School Sports Hazg

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KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH

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

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