Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- STEPHEN A. SMH APOLOGIZ FOR G THE TERM ‘HOMOSEXUAL’ STEAD OF ‘GAY’ ON FIRST TAKE
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. Kev Maxen is gay.
STEPHEN A. SMH APOLOGIZ FOR G THE TERM ‘HOMOSEXUAL’ STEAD OF ‘GAY’ ON FIRST TAKE
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 orientatn.And that ma him angry — at himself.“It was an anger and hatred of myself bee I put myself a life where I was livg by other people’s l and not by my own,” Maxen told Outsports. 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.
First-year Sparks ach Curt Miller, who ached the Connecticut Sun for seven years before that, has been out for s.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 Rairs.It was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports. Monday morng, First Take dited a segment to Jackson’s Sunday performance agast the Jacksonville Jaguars and his leted tweet, which some have terpreted as ntag an anti-gay phrase. Upon briefly discsg whether the tweet was discrimatory toward the gay muny, Smh ed the term “homosexual, ” which he apologized for later the show.
“I jt wanted to addrs, at the start of the show when we were talkg about Lamar Jackson, I should have uttered the word gay, ” Smh said durg the fal segment of First Take. I should have ed the word gay. “I’m not a homosexual so I’m not gog to fe what’s offensive to them or not, I’ll let them do that, ” Smh said the first hour of First Take.