Jaguars assistant is first male NFL ach to e out as gay - Los Angel Tim

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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
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• CAIRO GAY GUI - CAIRO FOM
• NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
• EGYPT'S AL-AZHAR LASH OUT AT DISNEY FOR GAY CHARACTERS
• GAY TRAVEL EGYPT
• EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• GAY CAIRO
• MALTE FALN, THE (1941): GAY TEXT/SUBTEXT–LORRE’S CHARACTER (LGBTQ, GAY)
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT

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. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

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

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. 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.

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.

CAIRO GAY GUI - CAIRO FOM

The per pa gross natnal e Egypt is a actn of Ameri’s, and the suatn there for gay men, particular, is pretty bad.

Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others. Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. Do not openly exhib the fact that you are gay, do not show any affectnate behavur public and do not seek out or vis any plac or events which have been offered to you as beg specifilly for gays.

NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY

The gay scene is very much unrground and you n land trouble if ught a raid on such plac.

Havg said that, I know of many gay upl who have vised the untry whout problems and know of many who return year after year. I agree Egypt is not "gay iendly", you n feel ee to vis any place, hotels or clubs there is no worry but try to avoid showg your sexual behavr public as you will look wired for most of the lols.

EGYPT'S AL-AZHAR LASH OUT AT DISNEY FOR GAY CHARACTERS

I'm a gay Egyptian man, feel ee to ask me anythg, as long as there's no bigotry or tense homophobia what you are askg.

Twenty-six men acced of mtg bchery a Cairo bathhoe have been found nocent, an unexpected move that follows a year-long crackdown on gay people men were seized om the baths and dragged half-naked to wag police tcks early December, an event that achieved worldwi notoriety after beg filmed and broadst by a televisn Mona Iraqi said she had ordated the arrts wh police officers as part of an unsympathetic seri about gay activy Egypt.

GAY TRAVEL EGYPT

Fai of the men nied their relativ were homosexual, but rights activists feared they had been targeted as part of a seri of arrts of allegedly gay men om hom, bathho and a rult, a guilty verdict was expected on Monday, and there was joyo panmonium urt when the judge stead acquted the fendants. Neher was homosexualy, which is not explicly a crime Egypt; stead, allegedly gay people are often prosecuted on charg related to immoraly or Long, an amic and rights activist who has documented rights ab (pdf) agast gay people Egypt for more than a , said: “I was pletely surprised by what happened.

Lawyers succsfully claimed that police officers fabrited their evince, and poted out that the three men who ernment forensics specialists claimed may have been passive sexual partners were acced the police’s acunt of beg active rights mpaigners, the acqutals were a small victory a wir battle agast state reprsn of gay people.

EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s hight relig thory, has warned agast promotg homosexualy through entertament ntent tailored for children.

GAY CAIRO

The warng me amid growg cricism of Walt Disney Company over plans to troduce more gay characters s productns.

In a June 9 statement, the Al-Azhar Fatwa Global Center nmned homosexualy as “obscene” and “reprehensible.

” It ced a “systematic diabolil plan to normalize the immoral crime of homosexualy Mlim societi” through entertament media ntent. “There are attempts to impose a culture of homosexualy on the Islamic world unr the pretext of acceptg the other. Al-Azhar’s nunciatn of homosexualy agast the backdrop of growg lls on social media Egypt for boyttg Walt Disney movi for promotg gay rights.

MALTE FALN, THE (1941): GAY TEXT/SUBTEXT–LORRE’S CHARACTER (LGBTQ, GAY)

The Walt Disney official said she supports featurg “many, many” characters who are LGBTQIA, which stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex and asexual.

A number of Egyptian actors also me out to speak out agast Walt Disney’s plans to troduce gay characters. Mohamed Sayed Abl Rahim, a film cric, believ that any move by entertament giants like Disney to troduce gay characters their productn will be very harmful to children. Disney ially remaed ntral about the legislatn that crics rid as a “Don’t Say Gay” bill, but changed s posn after an employee revolt.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EGYPT

Abl Rahim said that settg an age ratg for onle entertament platforms is necsary for protectg children agast any sexual or gay ntent.

Homosexualy isn’t technilly illegal Egypt, but ’s still a nservative Mlim untry, and gays are discrimated agast and routely round up by the police. Who’d have thought that a young man wavg a rabow flag at a ncert Cairo 2017 would spark a major crackdown on gays?

“Homosexualy isn’t an official crime Egypt, but laws battg prostutn and “bchery” are ed to imprison gays. Bee homosexualy isn’t an official crime, laws battg prostutn and “habual bchery” are ed to jtify the imprisonment of gay men and lbians for six months to six years.