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Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

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HOW PELOTON STAR CODY RIGSBY FNS TO SPREAD POSIVY AND GAY CHEER

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Unbeknownst to him, his si htle would propel him to fns and gay superstardom. “Even though I had a super progrsive and acceptg mom, growg up a space where I heard the f-word all the time, or when guys were talkg about somethg they didn’t like, they were llg ‘gay. It was his gay awakeng.

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Tayler Wil spoke wh Cyclgnews om the Trek-Segaedo mp January shortly after 'cross racer Jt Laevens me out as growg up Utah surround by nservative Mormon culture to livg the Bay Area as an openly gay profsnal cyclist, Amerin Tayler Wil has fed her own unique path through life and sport.

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

Cyclgnews spoke wh the Trek-Segaedo rir about her hop for gay rirs the men's peloton, cyclg the time of panmic and the shiftg Olympic Wil and her partner Olivia Dillon have been the subject of numero articl, they've been lled one of cyclg's olt upl. While Wil' reer the pro peloton tak her around the world, Dillon's role wh the clothg pany Veloc allows her to work remotely and jo Wil Europe for long stretch – much like many married upl the 's not que the same for the men's peloton: there are no openly gay WorldTour rirs and when an U23 cyclo-cross racer Jt Laevens me out, ma headl.

"There are a lot of gay women the sport and I've always had teammat that were gay.

TAYLER WIL: I HOPE THE MEN'S PELOTON BE MORE ACCEPTG OF GAY RIRS

"It may be that gay men perceive that sports aren't part of their culture or that pro sport's macho culture exclus them, but Wil says she hop the culture will change. “There are not a lot of those on a very gay island. Rigsby is the Fun One, effortlsly playg the role of “everybody’s gay bt iend, ” as lleague Emma Lovewell puts other stctors foc on form or motivatnal pep talks, Rigsby, who has Mickey Moe ears tattooed on his arm, peppers his class wh kschy tchphras, stray pop culture observatns and rants about his personal pet peev.

“Even though people ma fun of me for beg gay, I still loved beg onstage.

He remembers vg his iends — “twentysomethg gay New Yorkers who will read you for filth if somethg’s bad” — to an early trial class.

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”The former profsnal dancer has worked at Peloton for seven years, startg jt a year after the pany’s early days on Kickstarter and before beme a cultural phenomenon, but says he only locked to his persona as Ameri’s Gay Bt Friend three years ago: “I thk for the longt time throughout my tenure at Peloton, I was really tryg to f to a box, a perfect fns traer box, ” he says. Rigsby is a h wh anyone who wants a gay bt iend to light them and dispense some lightly chaotic Rigsby now do “XOXO Cody” ris, which he answers a curated set of rir qutns mid-pedal. In New York, he says, “If you go to the gay parti that I’m gog to, ’s an all-you-n-eat is a sense of eedom.

Earlier this year Davi, 29, who rac for the Spir-Bontrager-BSS-Rotor ele, ma a historic cisn earlier this summer, as he publicly me out as gay an terview wh cyclg webse The Brish Contental. As Cyclg Weekly tailed a feature May there are currently no male WorldTour pro rirs who are out, spe the chance of their beg no gay men the peloton so vanishgly small as to be close to zero, and only a very select handful of amatrs.

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”>>> Subscriptns als for Cyclg Weekly magazeDpe the fairly monumental moniker as Bra’s first openly gay ele male racer, ’s his nfince that stck me durg our hour-long nversatn.

Davi says his phone did not stop rgg for days after, all wh overwhelmg support - apart om one says the manager of a Brish cyclg team sent him a msage veiled homophobia, sayg: “I don’t get this fashn for everyone havg to ph their sexualy onto each other. ”Changg tis(Image cred: Daniel Gould)While improvg diversy has been an important topic over the last few years, there are a number of iativ pavg the way for a more clive Out is a new and clive cyclg group set up for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and asexual people (LGBTQIA+) and alli across the UK, welg everyone regardls of their genr inty, sexualy, ethnicy, age, or abily. In rponse to him and other reports of homophobia and transphobia the sport Brian Facer, chief executive of Brish Cyclg, said: “It has been eply worryg to read recent weeks reports about the homophobia and transphobia to which some of our fellow cyclists have been subjected.

“We mt do more to unrstand why that is not happeng but I wanted to take an opportuny to say this: homophobia and transphobia are not acceptable our sport. ”Brish Cyclg has enuraged anyone who has experienced transphobia or homophobia cyclg to report , by emailg explas the need to hi their sexualy uld be holdg back gay rirs om reachg the top of the sport: “I’m of the view, bee I’m a rults driven guy, if the bt rir is a straight man, that’s who you sign.

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