Kev Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach major U.S. profsnal men's sports to publicly e out as gay.
Contents:
- WHAT ABOUT THE GUYS WHO DO F THE 'GAY STEREOTYPE'?
- TOP 10 ARAB MEN ONLYFANS & SPICY ARAB GAY ONLYFANS 2023
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
WHAT ABOUT THE GUYS WHO DO F THE 'GAY STEREOTYPE'?
The male athlet who've e out recently rerce the obv: Gay men n be mascule. But people should also be acceptg of men, gay or straight, who don't nform to tradnal genr norms. * fit gay guy *
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The male athlet who've e out recently rerce the obv: Gay men n be mascule. But people should also be acceptg of men, gay or straight, who don't nform to tradnal genr Los Angel Galaxy midfielr Robbie Rogers took the pch on Sunday, he beme the first openly gay man to play on a major profsnal team the U.
(Danny Moloshok/Rters)A uple weeks ago, Mark Carson, a 32-year-old gay man drsed a tank top, cut-off shorts, and boots, was walkg wh his iend the Wt Village when they were approached by Ellt Moral. "You look like gay wrtlers. " Moral followed the men down the street shoutg anti-gay slurs before fatally shootg Carson at pot-blank range jt blocks om the Stonewall Inn.
TOP 10 ARAB MEN ONLYFANS & SPICY ARAB GAY ONLYFANS 2023
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * fit gay guy *
Carson's murr at a time when anti-gay crim New York Cy are on the rise, acrdg to the NYPD. There have been 29 reported this year, up om 14 the same perd last year, even as hate crim overall have cled durg that time by almost 30 recent uptick anti-gay vlence also durg the same month that three more stat passed laws legalizg same-sex marriage and jt weeks after NBA veteran Jason Colls revealed that he is gay—and was largely greeted wh open arms by the sports world.
When he took the pch a Los Angel Galaxy match on Sunday night, he beat Colls to the punch to bee the first openly gay athlete to play a major U. Men's profsnal moment of staggerg ntradictns seems like a good time to take stock of how far we have—and haven't—e dismantlg homophobia. But Ayanbajo got to the heart of why the importance of a figure like Jason Colls extends beyond the celebry factor: "People thk gayns has somethg to do wh femy when really we jt need to erase that stereotype om our mds, " he said.
And sce for women, we thk gayns "has somethg to do wh" masculy, we hold the opposg set of assumptns about female athlet: "In sports right now, there are two different stereotyp—that there are no gay male athlet, and every female athlete is a lbian, " Patrick Burke of the gay sports advocy group You Can Play explaed to the New York Tim. The news that Grer, who wore a whe tux on her 6-foot-8 ame at the WNBA draft, is gay didn't fundamentally challenge our notn that sexualy has somethg to do wh genr—and jt nfirmed the stereotyp we had about women who excel sports.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
"Wh this ntext, the hope is that a high-profile gay male athlete—or, more realistilly, a few of them—uld fally smash the stereotype that "gay" equals "unmascule" once and for all. (In fact, acrdg to the Onn, soccer beme the "world's first openly gay sport" 2010.
"Their acceptance of a gay man to that world uld go a long way toward unpackg some of the most sid stereotyp about gay people. Soclogists have long noted that homophobia is a fundamental gredient of masculy morn Amerin culture.
In his semal 1994 article "Masculy as Homophobia, " soclogist Michael Kimmel, thor of Guyland: The Perilo World Where Boys Bee Men, argued that "homophobia is a central anizg prciple of our cultural fn of manhood. " Sce homosexualy is associated wh femy, femizg and anti-gay ments are the primary mechanism for enforcg the boundari of masculy. The prsure to prove and re-prove hetereosexualy is part of what means to "be a man"—and ph men to embrace both homophobia and hypermasculy.
NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
"Homophobia, the fear of beg perceived as gay, as not a real man, keeps men exaggeratg all the tradnal l of masculy, cludg sexual predatn wh women, " Kimmel wrote.
"Homophobia and sexism go hand--hand. "Homophobia, then, is not simply social disapproval and discrimatn agast gay people, but an entire cultural stcture that disqualifyg all but the "most vilent repudiators of femy" om "real manhood"— the procs upholdg genr equaly and matag a hierarchy of men based on sexualy, race, class, abily, and so 's entirely unrstandable, then, why Colls took pas to highlight his masculy his Sports Illtrated article announcg the news. "I go agast the gay stereotype, which is why I thk a lot of players will be shocked: That guy is gay?