Tim Nelson of Cub Sport on their new album 'J at the Gay Bar' : NPR

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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• HOW THE IMAGE OF J AT A GAY BAR HELPED ATRALIAN BAND CUB SPORT TELL THEIR STORY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• WHY QUEER BAND CUB SPORT DROPPED 'J AT THE GAY BAR' ON GOOD FRIDAY: 'IT ULD BE READ AS PROVOTIVE/NTROVERSIAL AND I'D BE LYG IF I SAID I DIDN'T LIKE THAT'
• TIM NELSON OF CUB SPORT ON THEIR NEW ALBUM 'J AT THE GAY BAR'
• CUB SPORT ON J AT THE GAY BAR, TRAVERSG BETWEEN GENR, AND THE EPIC LOVE STORY OF THEIR LIV

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

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.

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

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. Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas was Nassib who put Maxen ntact 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.

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

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. How the Image of J at a Gay Bar Helped Atralian Band Cub Sport Tell Their Story. On Friday, the group members — who clu Nelson, Netterfield, dmmer Dan Puaari, and volist/gutarist Zoe Davis — are releasg their fifth album J at the Gay Bar, an electronic- and hoe-driven LP that ptur the ups and downs of romance and relatnships.

HOW THE IMAGE OF J AT A GAY BAR HELPED ATRALIAN BAND CUB SPORT TELL THEIR STORY

The album is named after a powerful poem by Jay Hulme that imag J Christ as a clubgoer wh his “rob hched up to His kne to make easy to sp, ” who reassur a gay man at the bar that “nothg this heart of yours ever needs to be healed. The poem’s msage was a great fort to Nelson and Netterfield, who both grew up as members of a Pentestal church wh “super nservative, very homophobic teachgs.

Speakg om his at-home stud Atralia, Nelson broke down five key songs off J at the Gay Bar and explaed how the album celebrat showg your tt self to the world.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. The rerd, J at the Gay Bar, is named after a work by transgenr performance poet Jay Hulme, and Cub Sport sger-songwrer Tim Nelson — who has procsed much of his childhood relig trma through his mic — tells Yahoo Entertament that readg Hulme’s poem was a lightng-bolt moment for him. “Basilly, tells a story of J partyg at a gay bar, and there's a boy that up to J and wants to touch his robe to be healed.

In a recent Instagram post featurg Hulme’s poetic words juxtaposed wh some trolls’ cel ments (albe not the ments emed particularly “serly sry and vlent”), Nelson clared: “I’m fully aware that the name and release date of our new album J at the Gay Bar uld be read as provotive/ntroversial and I’d be lyg if I said I didn’t like that.

WHY QUEER BAND CUB SPORT DROPPED 'J AT THE GAY BAR' ON GOOD FRIDAY: 'IT ULD BE READ AS PROVOTIVE/NTROVERSIAL AND I'D BE LYG IF I SAID I DIDN'T LIKE THAT'

”Here's quick look back at that path, which ultimately led to the exultant J at the Gay Bar: Soulmat/bandmat Nelson and Netterfield met at their extremely relig Pentestal Christian school 20 years ago, secretly dated durg their senr year, broke up, and then formed Cub Sport. However, was only 2016 that they officially me out to each other, to their fay, to their fans, and to the world — when they fally procsed both the external and ternalized homophobia they’d grappled wh most of their liv, realized that they were eply love, and cid to be together. The two married 2018, shortly after gay marriage was legalized their native album the Cub Sport disgraphy — om This Is Our Vice, whose lead sgle “Come on Ms Me Up” was hdsight the still-closeted Nelson’s sperate msage to Netterfield, through 2020’s Like Nirvana, which was led by the thartic, stream-of-nsc epic “Confsns” — has chronicled the band’s journey of self-disvery.

(Another member, multi-stmentalist Zoe Davis, is also gay and om a relig background, and she too me out relatively recently. ) And J at the Gay Bar is Cub Sport’s most celebratory and revelatory release yet, tly the sound of J partyg at a gay bar — the bt possible is how clearly livg his bt life: Cub Sport are about to play Los Angel’s Outloud Pri ncert wh none other than Grace Jon, for stance. I felt like was God's cisn that beg gay was wrong, basilly, rather than realizg that 's a group of people's terpretatn of somethg that's been mis-translated however many other harmful stuff were you tght — stuff that you had to unlearn?

TIM NELSON OF CUB SPORT ON THEIR NEW ALBUM 'J AT THE GAY BAR'

There was a lot of homophobia, and was que misogynistic too, which was always very sry. A lot of people kd of stayed the bubble, but there were a lot of people who had to reckon wh so much shame — not jt gay people, but women beg told that if they had sex before marriage, no one's gog to want them and they're like an unwrapped prent.

But you both spent so many years nyg and supprsg your te feelgs for each other, prumably due to your doctratn, there was a teacher at the school who told some clearly gay stunts: “Don't do . ”One of the songs on J at the Gay Bar, “Zoom, ” seems to touch on that, when you sg, “I kd of wanna my life…”Y, that was how felt — like, “If I give to this, I'm gog to everythg.

CUB SPORT ON J AT THE GAY BAR, TRAVERSG BETWEEN GENR, AND THE EPIC LOVE STORY OF THEIR LIV

I image you get a lot of msag om your fans, the Cubbi, sayg you’ve done jt 've had untls msag om people, om somethg as simple as “You've ma me feel more fortable wh who I am bee of seeg you two” or “I had the nfince to tell my parents that I'm gay bee of you, ” to people sayg, “Your mic has lerally saved my life.

The school I went to would never acknowledge , but I thk they're still jt so homophobic and backward that they would rather jt turn away om . But other than that, Northsi Christian College gets not a good word om, you were tght daily lsons there about homosexualy supposedly beg a s.