Jags' Maxen is first male Amerin pro sports ach to e out as gay - ESPN

Contents:

• ESPN'S ISRAEL GUTIERREZ REVEALS HE IS GAY—AND ENGAGED!— EMOTNAL BLOG POST
• 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
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

ESPN'S ISRAEL GUTIERREZ REVEALS HE IS GAY—AND ENGAGED!— EMOTNAL BLOG POST

Today he publicly revealed that he is gay and engaged to be married. "I'm gay, which plenty of people, I'm sure, have eher duced or jt gused as much over the years. I mean, I probably knew ep down that was bee I was gay, and for some reason that ma me feel I wasn't on the same playg field, almost lerally, as straight men.

Gutierrez relled that his early teens, until somewhere his late 20s, he would blow out his birthday ndl and make the same wish: "'Please don't let me be 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.

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

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world.

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

Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay.

For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn. Sce publicly g out 2015, Gutierrez, who works as an NBA reporter and mentator for ESPN, has emerged as one of the most proment openly gay figur sports media. One day, then-Marls closer Anton Alfonse teased Gutierrez for wearg an earrg his upper ear rtilage, suatg was a gay fashn statement.

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

“It was not worth to me to have to fend myself when somebody who liked me, prumably, is tellg me to my face that that’s not ol, and that’s gay, ” Gutierrez said.

Each day, whether ’s on the ESPN airwav or his social media feed, Gutierrez normaliz beg gay sports, and simply the world. Gutierrez is unapologetilly gay, and proud. “Hearg a man say ‘boyiend’ or ‘partner’ or ‘hband’ or terjectg a gay joke where they weren’t expectg , or a gay sex joke.

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

That dtry notor for employg no gays whatsoever: TV and broadstg? So I talked to Jon Kliment, the voice of mor league hockey’s Elmira Enforcers, about his experienc tryg to work his way up as an out gay voice an dtry that’s sorely need of reprentatn. On Tuday night, Philalphia Flyers' Ivan Provorov refed to wear a gay pri warm-up jersey on the team's Pri Night, cg relig beliefs.

Kev Maxen is gay. No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual that ma him angry — at himself. Men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017.