Jaguars' Kev Maxen First Male Coach to Come Out as Gay U.S. Sports

Contents:

• 'GLEE' STAR CHRIS COLFER SAYS HE WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON THE SHOW BEE HE WASN'T OUT YET
• WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?
• CHRIS COLFER WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' PLAYG OPENLY GAY 'GLEE' ROLE KURT AS HE WASN'T YET OUT
• 'GLEE' ALUM KEV MCHALE CONFIRMS HE'S GAY: 'I THK THERE WAS ZERO SURPRISE'
• THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?
• IN ITS FAL SEASON, GLEE WAS THE GAYT SHOW THAT’S EVER BEEN ON TELEVISN
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

'GLEE' STAR CHRIS COLFER SAYS HE WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON THE SHOW BEE HE WASN'T OUT YET

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Kurt is the first gay character to e out season one of Glee, and is badly bullied for . However, Dave later reveals he is gay after tryg to kiss Kurt season two. "Glee" star Chris Colfer opened up about playg the openly gay character, Kurt, on a podst Thursday.

"Glee" actor Chris Colfer, 32, opened up about his fear of playg an openly gay character on the h Fox seri durg Thursday's episo of the "And That's What You Really Missed", who portrayed a character named Kurt on the show om 2009 to 2015, shared that he was "absolutely terrified" bee he hadn't e out yet. And back then, people told their clients, 'Don't play gay characters bee will your reer, '" Colfer said. "Colfer's character had many storyl that centered around his experience as a gay high school stunt.

WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?

"I'm actually kd of grateful for , " Chris Colfer admted of playg his openly gay Glee character Kurt Hummel before he ultimately me out himself 2009.

The Goln Globe wner, 32, reflected on how "sry" was playg the openly gay character of Kurt Hummel when he wasn't yet out himself, as he ught up wh fellow Glee alums Kev McHale and Jenna Ushkowz on Thursday's episo of their And That's What You Really Missed podst. And then when I fally got the script was when I realized was the gay character, and I was terrified, " Colfer add. Colfer revealed on the podst that he even had a fay member (not his parents) tell him that playg a gay character "would your life, sentially.

CHRIS COLFER WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' PLAYG OPENLY GAY 'GLEE' ROLE KURT AS HE WASN'T YET OUT

McHale, 34, who also me out as gay 2018, asked Colfer if bothers him that they wrote a gay character specifilly for him. Jonathan Groff is openly gay. Darren Criss as Blae AnrsonThis actor played a gay man the show, though he is straight and married real life.

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'GLEE' ALUM KEV MCHALE CONFIRMS HE'S GAY: 'I THK THERE WAS ZERO SURPRISE'

After more than a of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen, where he beme the first openly gay host Amerin late night, Bravo's exec turned talent tackl all kds of media (SiriXM show Rad Andy, multiple books), while upliftg and advotg for the LGBTQ muny. I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN "As much reprentatn as there is, there are very few big gay love stori.

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He was a talented black, gay workg actor who was pavg the way for the '80s the streets Hollywood. Sudnly, a clever, funny, kd, hot gay man on TV, that's still rare. Gay all up!

THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?

And when 's jt a movie about a love story and not a gay love story. Puttg his stamp on The Ln Kg — he played Timon to great acclaim the billn-dollar-earng Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Ddge  Amerin Crime Story: Impeachment while his upg Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom- om a major stud. I'VE FOUND COMMUNITY DURING QUARANTINE BY "Watchg gay guys dog home workouts on Instagram.

Creator of the NBC s One Big Happy and her own YouTube talk show This Jt Out, Feldman recently ma her Netflix edy outright queer, as Dead to Me's sophomore season revealed a lead character to be bisexual. I FELT MOST PROUD TO BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY LAST YEAR WHEN "An openly gay man beme a te ntenr as a printial ndidate.

Broadst TV's first openly gay chief exec has ed his new post atop WarnerMedia's direct-to-nsumer bs to she a spotlight. Lee's sophomore film, perd lbian love story Ammone, starrg Kate Wslet and Saoirse Ronan, is due out late 2020 om Neon.

IN ITS FAL SEASON, GLEE WAS THE GAYT SHOW THAT’S EVER BEEN ON TELEVISN

Levy, who -created the show wh dad Eugene, earned legns of admirers fans and crics alike for craftg a same-sex love story a seri that was ee of homophobia.

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KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Sean was the openly gay Ain Amerin hband of stmate Pedro Zamora. The show will leave a legacy of thentic pictns of sexualy — cludg scen volvg gay character Lnel (DeRon Horton), moled after Simien himself. LGBTQ STORY I'D LOVE TO SEE ONSCREEN "A pictn of black gay men that is neher tragic nor ialized.

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

In 2019, the bisexual actor uld be seen as French New Wave in Jean Seberg Venice premiere tle Seberg, as a secret agent Sony's Charlie's Angels reboot and on a particularly gay episo of SNL.

The queer Salvadoran edian translated the handful of breakout Saturday Night Live scen he wrote to multiple als at HBO — where he buted the edy special My Favore Shap  2019 and is readyg season two of Los Espookys, the half-Spanish, half-English, entirely absurd edy which he stars as the gay heir to a cholate fortune. He was a gay boy om Geia jt like me.

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

I FIRST FELT REPRESENTED WHEN I SAW "Ryan Phillippe playg a gay teen on One Life to Live 1992. After 45 seasons, 's hard to believe there are any firsts left for Saturday Night Live — but Yang arrived at 30 Rock 2019 as the st's first Che Amerin stmember and only s third openly gay male.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Ten years ago, two gay men me out of the closet. Both of , bee of this, felt that our bt years were to e, beyond the heteronormative nf of high by Chris Colfer, Kurt was both flawed and funny – whout his gayns beg the butt of every joke. The populary of a show as gay as Glee might not seem revolutnary now, but is worth rememberg that when first aired 2009, jt 36 per cent of Amerins even supported same-sex marriage.

It seamlsly blend gay narrativ to a popular, mastream show and even had the guts to st a gay actor (Colfer) a gay role.

A on, this is still prsgly rare, so much so that Criss – who later starred as gay serial killer Andrew Cunanan Murphy’s The Assassatn of Gianni Versace – has pledged to stop playg LGBT+ characters to give more gay actors a most culture created by queer people, Glee rarely gets the cred serv for fluencg the mastream. For young people – gay, straight and everythg between – might have been the first time they saw a lovg gay romance on screen.