ESPN Is Gay-Friendly - Outsports

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS 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
• ESPN IS GAY-FRIENDLY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• ESPN'S ISRAEL GUTIERREZ REVEALS HE IS GAY—AND ENGAGED!— EMOTNAL BLOG POST
• MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY
• ESPN'S SARAH SPA LLS RAYS PLAYERS ‘BIGOTS’ FOR NOT WEARG GAY PRI PATCH
• HOW ALLEGIANCE TO AN ANTI-GAY FAN CHANT AT MEXI SOCCER GAM MIGHT SK EL TRI'S WORLD CUP FORTUN

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

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.

Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. It wasn't until I left Wake Fort [Universy] that I really began to [e to terms] wh my league legend Ian Roberts: I always knew [beg gay] wasn't embraced by the greater society so I kept secret.

I me out at the Gay Gam 1994, welg the athlet and sayg, "It's great to be out and proud. " Another time, the owner of the team told me that my sexualy was agast the team's beliefs, so wouldn't look good to have a gay soccer player the Before I went pro, I said if I have to change how I look, how I drs, then I don't want [beg a pro]. Sce publicly g out 2015, Gutierrez, who works as an NBA reporter and mentator for ESPN, has emerged as one of the most proment openly gay figur sports media.

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

One day, then-Marls closer Anton Alfonse teased Gutierrez for wearg an earrg his upper ear rtilage, suatg was a gay fashn statement.

“It was not worth to me to have to fend myself when somebody who liked me, prumably, is tellg me to my face that that’s not ol, and that’s gay, ” Gutierrez said. Each day, whether ’s on the ESPN airwav or his social media feed, Gutierrez normaliz beg gay sports, and simply the world.

ESPN IS GAY-FRIENDLY

“Hearg a man say ‘boyiend’ or ‘partner’ or ‘hband’ or terjectg a gay joke where they weren’t expectg , or a gay sex joke. 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.

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

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.

ESPN'S ISRAEL GUTIERREZ REVEALS HE IS GAY—AND ENGAGED!— EMOTNAL BLOG POST

So I talked to Jon Kliment, the voice of mor league hockey’s Elmira Enforcers, about his experienc tryg to work his way up as an out gay voice an dtry that’s sorely need of reprentatn. McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.

He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly.

MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY

It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport. McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay.

ESPN'S SARAH SPA LLS RAYS PLAYERS ‘BIGOTS’ FOR NOT WEARG GAY PRI PATCH

”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry. As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok.

HOW ALLEGIANCE TO AN ANTI-GAY FAN CHANT AT MEXI SOCCER GAM MIGHT SK EL TRI'S WORLD CUP FORTUN

’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed.

He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac.