Jaguars strength ach is first male ach a major US-based pro league to e out as gay - The Boston Globe

Contents:

• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• EX-PATRTS LEMAN RYAN O'CALLAGHAN, WHO ME OUT AS GAY, RELLS ROBERT KRAFT'S SUPPORT

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

Durg the Cold War, homosexualy was associated wh munism and portrayed as a natnal secury threat.

The State Department’s 1950 purge of supposed homosexuals unr Print Harry Tman unleashed “the lavenr sre, ” which st thoands their jobs. In the face of the charg of beg “un-Amerin, ” historian Simon Hall argu, early gay-rights groups profsed patrtism and appealed to “the natn’s foundg ials of liberty and equaly. In the sprg and summer of 1965, for example, there were gay-rights protts at the Whe Hoe, Pentagon, Civil Service Commissn, and Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall.

Activists held up signs readg “First Class Cizenship for Homosexuals;” “Ameri, the Land of the Free. For Homosexuals Too? The activists argued that excludg homosexuals om ernment service, cludg the ary, actually weakened the untry by privg of well-qualified cizens who wanted to serve.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

After the Stonewall rt of 1969, more radil anizatns like the Gay Liberatn Front arose to nont police btaly, legal rtrictns, and homophobia. Yet Hall argu that the “appeals of Amerinism have remaed an important feature of the gay rights movement.

EX-PATRTS LEMAN RYAN O'CALLAGHAN, WHO ME OUT AS GAY, RELLS ROBERT KRAFT'S SUPPORT

” He c the first openly gay man on the ver of a news magaze (Time, 1975): Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich. Likewise, the Gay Activists Alliance, a “leadg force” for gay rights durg the 1970s, fought to repeal New York’s nsensual sodomy law by appealg to the “Spir of ’76” and the “philosophy of eedom on which the republic was found.

Des after the lavenr sre, the appeal to Amerinism was revived durg the era of “don’t ask, don’t tell” the early 1990s, and then aga durg the fight over gay marriage the 2000s. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen told Outsports on Thursday that he is gay, makg him the first publicly out male ach major men’s pro sports the Uned Stat.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. And there will be plenty of LGBTQ+ reprentatn on the sil as well when the New England Patrts play the Buffalo Bills on Saturday will be a historic game for the Patrts as the team will start a rookie quarterback a playoff game for the first time team history, but Mac Jon will not be the only person makg history what has already been a season of firsts for the NFL clared self officially gay this year shortly after Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib me out via an Instagram post durg Pri Month. Nassib ma history as the league's first out, gay active player and he is expected to bee the first out player to take the field an NFL playoff game when his Las Vegas Rairs play the Ccnati Bengals on Saturday.