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• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• ACE LOS ANGELPO BOX 672, LOS ANGELACE LOS ANGEL, INC. IS A 501(C)3 NON-PROF SOCIAL MEETUP AND TNAL AND OUTREACH GROUP FOR ASEXUALS (ACE FOR SHORT) AND AROMANTICS THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA. WE HOST SOCIAL MEETUPS TWICE A MONTH. ADDNALLY, WE RAISE AWARENS THROUGH OUTREACH AND TNAL PRENTATNS AND EVENTSAPAIT HEALTH CENTER3055 WILSHIRE BLVD. SUE #300, LOS ANGELOUR MISSN IS TO POSIVELY IMPACT THE QUALY OF LIFE FOR MEDILLY UNRSERVED MUNI LIVG WH OR AT RISK FOR HIV/AIDS AND OTHER HEALTH DISPARI THROUGH CULTURALLY PETENT AND LGUISTILLY APPROPRIATE PROGRAMS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.APLA HEALTH611 S. KGSLEY DRIVE, LOS ANGELAIDS PROJECT LOS ANGEL (APLA) IS A NON-PROF ANIZATN REGNIZED AT BOTH THE NATNAL AND LOL LEVEL FOR PROVIDG EE BASIC NEEDS SERVIC TO PEOPLE IMPACTED BY THE VASTATG EFFECTS OF HIV/AIDS LOS ANGEL COUNTY. FOUND BY FOUR IENDS 1983, APLA IS A MUNY-BASED, VOLUNTEER-SUPPORTED ANIZATN WH THE MISSN OF: IMPROVG THE LIV OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY HIV DISEASE; RCG THE CINCE OF HIV FECTN; AND ADVOTG FOR FAIR AND EFFECTIVE HIV-RELATED PUBLIC POLICY.BETTER BROTHERS LOS ANGELPO BOX 292260, LOS ANGELBETTER BROTHERS LOS ANGEL CREAT SAFE SPAC TO TE, SPIRE, AND NNECT THE BLACK LGBTQ+ COMMUNY TO OVERE THE CHALLENG OF STIGMA AND HOMOPHOBIA. BETTER BROTHERS LA PROMOT POSIVE IMAG TO SHOW THE FULL SPECTM OF OUR BETY AND HUMANY.BIENTAR HUMAN SERVIC INC5326 E BEVERLY BLVD, LOS ANGELBIENTAR IS MTED TO ENHANCG THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEG OF THE LATO MUNY AND OTHER UNRSERVED MUNI. BIENTAR ACPLISH THIS THROUGH MUNY TN, PREVENTN, MOBILIZATN, ADVOCY, AND THE PROVISN OF DIRECT SOCIAL SUPPORT SERVIC.BLACK AIDS INSTUTE1833 WT EIGHT STREET #200, LOS ANGELFOUND MAY OF 1999, THE BLACK AIDS INSTUTE IS THE ONLY NATNAL HIV/AIDS THK TANK FOCED EXCLIVELY ON BLACK PEOPLE. THE INSTUTE'S MISSN IS TO STOP THE AIDS PANMIC BLACK MUNI BY ENGAGG AND MOBILIZG BLACK STUTNS AND DIVIDUALS EFFORTS TO NONT HIV. THE INSTIBLA FOUNDATN @ WASHGTON BLA1712 14TH ST NW, SEND FLOOR, WASHGTONTHE BLA FOUNDATN WAS FOUND 2010 IALLY TO FUND THE DIGIZATN OF THE FULL 47-YEAR PRT AND PHOTO ARCHIVE OF THE PAPER. WH THAT WORK WELL UNRWAY, THE FOUNDATN IS SHIFTG S FOC TO RAISG MONEY TO FUND ENTERPRISE JOURNALISM PROJECTS AREAS OF NEED OF LGBTQ ADVOCY.BLIND LGBT PRIDE INTERNATIONAL5010 ECHO ST APT A, LOS ANGELTHE PURPOSE OF BLD LGBT PRI INTERNATNAL (“BLD PRI” OR “BPI”), A 501C(3) ANIZATN, IS TO PROVI FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE LIV OF THOSE WHO ARE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND WHO ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR.CELEBRATION THEATRE7985 SANTA MONI BLVD, TO PRENT THEATRIL PRODUCTNS SHOWSG GAY, LBIAN, TRANSGENR EXPERIENCCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GROUPSPO BOX 48750, LOS ANGELTO PROVIDE A TEEN TO TEEN HELP LINE WITH ASSOCIATED COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES SEE WWW TEEN LI NEON LINE ORG FOR MORE INFORMATIONCHRISTOPHER STREET WEST ASSOCIATION INC8235 SANTA MONI BLVD STE 302, WT HOLLYWOODTHE PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO PROMOTE THE GOALS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. EDUCATION, OUTREACH AND A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GAY, LESBIAN AND TRANSGENDER COMMUNITYCOURAGE CALIFORNIA777 S FIGUEROA ST STE 4050, LOS ANGELTHE COURAGE CAMPAIGN INSTUTE PROVIS AMERINS WH THE TN AND TOOLS NECSARY TO FEND AND EXTEND HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS SECURED BY LAW, TO END PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMATN, AND TO HELP PEOPLE WORK MORE EFFECTIVELY TO ADDRS ISSU THAT AFFECT THEIR MUNI TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.DAVID BOHNETT FOUNDATION245 SOUTH BEVERLY DRIVE, BEVERLY HILLSWE PURSUE OUR MISSN BY PROVIDG FUNDG, STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIL SUPPORT TO NOVATIVE ANIZATNS AND STUTNS THAT, ADDN TO MEETG OUR FUNDG GUIL, SHARE OUR VISN.DIGNITY USAPO BOX 3886, S PASANAOUTREACH TO GAY/LESBIAN CATHOLICSDYKE DAY LA
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

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

Kev Maxen is 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. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY 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 a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

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. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

“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.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

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. “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.”.

ACE LOS ANGELPO BOX 672, LOS ANGELACE LOS ANGEL, INC. IS A 501(C)3 NON-PROF SOCIAL MEETUP AND TNAL AND OUTREACH GROUP FOR ASEXUALS (ACE FOR SHORT) AND AROMANTICS THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA. WE HOST SOCIAL MEETUPS TWICE A MONTH. ADDNALLY, WE RAISE AWARENS THROUGH OUTREACH AND TNAL PRENTATNS AND EVENTSAPAIT HEALTH CENTER3055 WILSHIRE BLVD. SUE #300, LOS ANGELOUR MISSN IS TO POSIVELY IMPACT THE QUALY OF LIFE FOR MEDILLY UNRSERVED MUNI LIVG WH OR AT RISK FOR HIV/AIDS AND OTHER HEALTH DISPARI THROUGH CULTURALLY PETENT AND LGUISTILLY APPROPRIATE PROGRAMS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.APLA HEALTH611 S. KGSLEY DRIVE, LOS ANGELAIDS PROJECT LOS ANGEL (APLA) IS A NON-PROF ANIZATN REGNIZED AT BOTH THE NATNAL AND LOL LEVEL FOR PROVIDG EE BASIC NEEDS SERVIC TO PEOPLE IMPACTED BY THE VASTATG EFFECTS OF HIV/AIDS LOS ANGEL COUNTY. FOUND BY FOUR IENDS 1983, APLA IS A MUNY-BASED, VOLUNTEER-SUPPORTED ANIZATN WH THE MISSN OF: IMPROVG THE LIV OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY HIV DISEASE; RCG THE CINCE OF HIV FECTN; AND ADVOTG FOR FAIR AND EFFECTIVE HIV-RELATED PUBLIC POLICY.BETTER BROTHERS LOS ANGELPO BOX 292260, LOS ANGELBETTER BROTHERS LOS ANGEL CREAT SAFE SPAC TO TE, SPIRE, AND NNECT THE BLACK LGBTQ+ COMMUNY TO OVERE THE CHALLENG OF STIGMA AND HOMOPHOBIA. BETTER BROTHERS LA PROMOT POSIVE IMAG TO SHOW THE FULL SPECTM OF OUR BETY AND HUMANY.BIENTAR HUMAN SERVIC INC5326 E BEVERLY BLVD, LOS ANGELBIENTAR IS MTED TO ENHANCG THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEG OF THE LATO MUNY AND OTHER UNRSERVED MUNI. BIENTAR ACPLISH THIS THROUGH MUNY TN, PREVENTN, MOBILIZATN, ADVOCY, AND THE PROVISN OF DIRECT SOCIAL SUPPORT SERVIC.BLACK AIDS INSTUTE1833 WT EIGHT STREET #200, LOS ANGELFOUND MAY OF 1999, THE BLACK AIDS INSTUTE IS THE ONLY NATNAL HIV/AIDS THK TANK FOCED EXCLIVELY ON BLACK PEOPLE. THE INSTUTE'S MISSN IS TO STOP THE AIDS PANMIC BLACK MUNI BY ENGAGG AND MOBILIZG BLACK STUTNS AND DIVIDUALS EFFORTS TO NONT HIV. THE INSTIBLA FOUNDATN @ WASHGTON BLA1712 14TH ST NW, SEND FLOOR, WASHGTONTHE BLA FOUNDATN WAS FOUND 2010 IALLY TO FUND THE DIGIZATN OF THE FULL 47-YEAR PRT AND PHOTO ARCHIVE OF THE PAPER. WH THAT WORK WELL UNRWAY, THE FOUNDATN IS SHIFTG S FOC TO RAISG MONEY TO FUND ENTERPRISE JOURNALISM PROJECTS AREAS OF NEED OF LGBTQ ADVOCY.BLIND LGBT PRIDE INTERNATIONAL5010 ECHO ST APT A, LOS ANGELTHE PURPOSE OF BLD LGBT PRI INTERNATNAL (“BLD PRI” OR “BPI”), A 501C(3) ANIZATN, IS TO PROVI FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE LIV OF THOSE WHO ARE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND WHO ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR.CELEBRATION THEATRE7985 SANTA MONI BLVD, TO PRENT THEATRIL PRODUCTNS SHOWSG GAY, LBIAN, TRANSGENR EXPERIENCCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GROUPSPO BOX 48750, LOS ANGELTO PROVIDE A TEEN TO TEEN HELP LINE WITH ASSOCIATED COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES SEE WWW TEEN LI NEON LINE ORG FOR MORE INFORMATIONCHRISTOPHER STREET WEST ASSOCIATION INC8235 SANTA MONI BLVD STE 302, WT HOLLYWOODTHE PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO PROMOTE THE GOALS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. EDUCATION, OUTREACH AND A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GAY, LESBIAN AND TRANSGENDER COMMUNITYCOURAGE CALIFORNIA777 S FIGUEROA ST STE 4050, LOS ANGELTHE COURAGE CAMPAIGN INSTUTE PROVIS AMERINS WH THE TN AND TOOLS NECSARY TO FEND AND EXTEND HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS SECURED BY LAW, TO END PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMATN, AND TO HELP PEOPLE WORK MORE EFFECTIVELY TO ADDRS ISSU THAT AFFECT THEIR MUNI TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.DAVID BOHNETT FOUNDATION245 SOUTH BEVERLY DRIVE, BEVERLY HILLSWE PURSUE OUR MISSN BY PROVIDG FUNDG, STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIL SUPPORT TO NOVATIVE ANIZATNS AND STUTNS THAT, ADDN TO MEETG OUR FUNDG GUIL, SHARE OUR VISN.DIGNITY USAPO BOX 3886, S PASANAOUTREACH TO GAY/LESBIAN CATHOLICSDYKE DAY LA

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.

RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

“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. 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.

Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016. Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street.

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

The venue is the only Latx gay bar LA that explicly ters to a gay and Mexin dience every night, not jt as a theme once a week. But ’s the perfect space to grab a workday bnch wh a lleague or for -workg ssns -hosted on Tudays wh Gay Asstrology. The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny.

QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA

Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach. One of Long Beach’s few, if not only, three-level gay bars, Executive Sue boasts a karaoke bar, vio gam, pool tabl for rent, and regular drag shows.

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

Dubbed by KCET as Montebello’s bt Lato gay bar, Chi is the sister to Club Cobra, servg as a groundg se for the queer Latx muny the suburbs of East LA.

It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi. Try changg or rettg your filtersShowg PlacePlac The Boulevard Pasana LGBTQ+ $ The Boulevard pris self on beg Pasana’s only gay bar. It’s a gay bar, ’s a straight bar, ’s a trans bar, ’s a drag bar, ’s a karaoke bar, ’s a bar you n go to no matter who you are and feel fortable.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

The gay-owned, gay-managed bistro nverted s loadg area to an attractive pat space and stalled 10, 000 Christmas lights that hang above ctomers as they de. “As a fay-owned, gay-owned bs, we always want to keep that neighborhood inty, ” Shaw said.

The bar origally opened as a gay bar 1979 but is now open to everyone. Utterly breathtakg, this inic tablishment was crowned LOGO's "Bt Gay Bar the World, " makg a mt-see LA’s gay nightlife scene. When opened 1973, Jewel’s Catch One was the natn’s first black gay and lbian dis.