Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer.
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- THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.
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He was rponsible for preparg discharge and reassignment paperwork, and sometim he would have to dishonorably discharge men for beg gay. “At that time I realized that I was gay, and was jt difficult to know that people were beg discharged for the same thg that I was my life. ”“What bothered me the most was havg to talk to the guys that were beg discharged, and they were not a good state of wellns anyway, bee at that time, was illegal or nsired mental problems to be gay, ” he Cunngham, 82, and Richard Prtt, 78, have llectively spent 115 years the closet.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Godss Magora Kennedy, who participated the Stonewall uprisg, and Pl Barby, who ran for Congrs as an openly gay man 1996 and 1998.
”Livg a 'double life'Cunngham said he realized he was gay as a teenager, but he didn’t know the word “gay” at the time — he jt knew he was different. Begng the late 1960s, many stat crimalized homosexualy through sodomy laws.
The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn also classified homosexualy as a mental disorr the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs until 1973, when that classifitn was replaced wh “sexual orientatn disturbance. ” Homosexualy was pletely removed om the manual 1987, but many stat still had sodomy laws on their books until 2003, when the Supreme Court led such laws unnstutnal. You'd have a lbian iend wh you, or they would have a gay man on their arm or somethg, and was a way of hidg.