Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you.
Contents:
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
- ELEANOR CREW UNTS ‘THE TIM I KNEW I WAS GAY’
- THE TIM I KNEW I WAS GAY
- AM I GAY?
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach, is the first male ach a major U.S. men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * times i knew i was gay *
Kev Maxen is gay.
LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
The Tim I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crew - A charmg, highly relatable graphic memoir about one woman’s g out and g of age that “brims wh ho... * times i knew i was 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. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angel Tim) To the edor: I wonr if the LGBTQ+ muny realiz that the Supreme Court lg favor of a webse signer who didn’t want to create weddg s for gay upl n work our favor as well. (“How the ripple effect of the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative cisn uld swamp civil rights, ” Opn, July 12)As a gay man, I am always ncerned if the bs where I spend my money are supportive of my muny.
ELEANOR CREW UNTS ‘THE TIM I KNEW I WAS GAY’
”The tle of Crew' book giv away the secret: The Tim I Knew I Was Gay. ”Crew trac Ellie’s years sendary school and then llege, watchg as a boy she knows is bullied for beg gay, tryg to learn flirtg techniqu, beg teased for beg a virg.
THE TIM I KNEW I WAS GAY
The first time she announc she’s gay, at a New Year’s Eve party, her iends are supportive: “You’re fally Willow! The bt-known graphic memoir about growg up gay is Alison Bechl’s 2006 book Fun Home: A Fay Tragiic, which beme a Broadway mil.
The Tim I Knew I Was Gay is much gentler spir, s humor more sweet than satiril.
Figurg out their sexualy might always be a challenge for kids, but perhaps we’re movg toward a world which no one needs to hi bee of Tim I Knew I Was GayBy Eleanor CrewScribner, 320 pag, $25Tim Ftival of ReadgEleanor Crew will be a featured thor at the Tampa Bay Tim Virtual Ftival of Readg, Nov.
AM I GAY?
As a gay woman I’m nstantly lookg for ntent that feels te to my own experienc, that helps me unrstand myself more -- this book, I found that. ” —Nila Streeten, thor of Billy, Me & You “In this charmg, funny ic, Crew trac the moments she realised she might be gay, om her holy munn to her first date wh a woman.
Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.