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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
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• GAY MEN’S MDFULNS AND SELF CARE
• NE ATTUS FOR MDFULNS PRACTICE GAY MEN CAN IMPLEMENT TODAY
• THE MEDIATG ROLE OF BODY ACCEPTANCE EXPLAG THE RELATN OF MDFULNS, SELF-COMPASSN AND MDFUL EATG TO BODY IMAGE GAY MEN AND BISEXUAL MEN
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• MDFULNS FOR GAY MEN: HOW TO GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD AND BE MORE ENGAGED IN LIFE
• THE WELL TRAED MDA 6-WEEK TRODUCTN TO MDFULNS WH GNY GAYIN THIS LIVE, VIRTUAL URSE, YOU’LL GROW SIGHT AND CLARY AS YOU LEARN TO APPLY THE FOUNDATNS OF MDFULNS, CULTIVATG YOUR OWN LM, CENTERED, EMBODIED PRENCE.WHENENROLLMENT OPENS OCTOBER 2, 2023.COURSE DAT: OCT 15–NOV 19, 2023.6 LIVE CLASS, SUNDAY AFTERNOONS OM 12–2PM EST.WHERELIVE, VIA ZOOMJO THE WALISTWE CAN CHOOSE PRENCE SO WE DON’T MISS THE MOMENTS OF OUR LIV.WE CAN CHOOSE KDNS AND TO ACT WISELY SO THAT WE - AND THOSE AROUND - SUFFER LS.WE CAN CULTIVATE AN UNWAVERG GROUND OF WELL-BEG THAT IS OUR FOUNDATN AND OUR HOME - NO MATTER THE STORMS THAT LIFE BRGS.WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?MDFULNS AND MEDATN ENABLE TO BRG THE POWER OF AWARENS TO OUR THOUGHTS, FEELGS, AND ACTNS. YOU N CHOOSE HOW YOU RPOND TO OUR NER AND OUTER LIFE. I'LL SHOW YOU HOW.WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?WHAT YOU'LL LEARN"MDFULNS BRGS AWARENS TO WHAT YOU ARE DOG, AND WH THAT CLARY THE POSSIBILY OF CHOICE. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE ALL HAVE THE NATE ABILY TO BE AWARE. IT IS THE NATURE OF OUR MD. HOWEVER MOST PEOPLE’S MDS ARE UNTRAED, SO THE WAY MANY OF E OUR ATTENTN IS LS THAN OPTIMAL. WH MDFULNS MEDATN, YOU N LEARN TO TERCEPT UNHELPFUL, UNWANTED HABS AND CULTIVATE POSIVE ON. AS YOU LEARN TO DO THAT THE LABORATORY OF MEDATN, YOU N TRANSLATE THAT SKILL TO THE RT OF YOUR LIFE."MARK COLEMANGNY GAY, CERTIFIED MDFULNS TEACHER
• SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS
• AN AFFIRMATIVE MDFULNS APPROACH FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH

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.

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.

The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. Surrogacy is illegal Italy, and gay marriage has not been legalized.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

“There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent. 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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

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.

GAY MEN’S MDFULNS AND SELF CARE

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. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. 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.

NE ATTUS FOR MDFULNS PRACTICE GAY MEN CAN IMPLEMENT TODAY

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

THE MEDIATG ROLE OF BODY ACCEPTANCE EXPLAG THE RELATN OF MDFULNS, SELF-COMPASSN AND MDFUL EATG TO BODY IMAGE GAY MEN AND BISEXUAL MEN

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. Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay.

Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U. Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player. “I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Wele to the gay and bi men’s group. This n be pecially te for gay men.

Growg up, many of felt we weren’t good enough bee we were gay.

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

As adults, many gay men ntue to try and make up for a feelg of beg “ls than” by always strivg for perfectn. So how n you start to replace the societal attus as a gay man?

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Exploratn of mdfulns and related ncepts have not been vtigated extensively gay and bisexual men, a populatn where eatg and body related ncerns have been found to be wispread.

ConclnsFdgs highlight the importance of body acceptance when nsirg the velopment of a mdfulns or passn-based terventn to attenuate body related issu among gay and bisexual men. Exploratn of mdfulns and related ncepts have not been vtigated extensively gay and bisexual men although evince shows that this is a populatn who are also at higher risk of velopg eatg and body image related issu (e.

The velopment of terventns which nsir the specific experienc of different populatns creas the efficy of such terventns, hence the need for creased knowledge of experienc of body issu gay and bisexual Wtern culture, prentatn of “th” or “slim” female body typ have ntributed to poor body image perceptn among younger female populatns (Bombak et al., 2019). Rearch that explor body image men do not often pict the sexualy of participants and therefore do not nsir the specific experienc of gay and bisexual men (Fsner & Smh, 2015).

MDFULNS FOR GAY MEN: HOW TO GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD AND BE MORE ENGAGED IN LIFE

This omissn is important, as recent lerature has highlighted gay and bisexual men as experiencg a higher prevalence of eatg and body related issu when pared wh heterosexual men (Blashill, 2010). (2017) suggt that the prsure upon gay men to nform to the high standards of bodily appearance the gay muny uld rult disorred eatg and body dissatisfactn.

Yelland and Tiggemann (2003) pared measur asssg disorred eatg and sire for mculary gay men, g heterosexual men and women as ntrol groups. Gay men sred higher the disorred eatg and sire for mculary measur than both the ntrol groups (Yelland & Tiggemann, 2003). This suggts that the aspiratnal male gay body type is both lean and mcular.

A perceived failure to achieve such body ials may also negatively affect wellbeg gay men (Brewster et al., 2017; Regan et al., 2021; Yelland & Tiggemann, 2003). (2021) highlighted the appearance-based judgement experienced by gay men who vised “gay spac”, and how this related to a lack of body acceptance wh gay men. Exploratn of the ncepts wh gay and bisexual men would highlight elements that may be important when nsirg a mdful or passn-based terventn to attenuate body and eatg related issu gay and bisexual men.

THE WELL TRAED MDA 6-WEEK TRODUCTN TO MDFULNS WH GNY GAYIN THIS LIVE, VIRTUAL URSE, YOU’LL GROW SIGHT AND CLARY AS YOU LEARN TO APPLY THE FOUNDATNS OF MDFULNS, CULTIVATG YOUR OWN LM, CENTERED, EMBODIED PRENCE.WHENENROLLMENT OPENS OCTOBER 2, 2023.COURSE DAT: OCT 15–NOV 19, 2023.6 LIVE CLASS, SUNDAY AFTERNOONS OM 12–2PM EST.WHERELIVE, VIA ZOOMJO THE WALISTWE CAN CHOOSE PRENCE SO WE DON’T MISS THE MOMENTS OF OUR LIV.WE CAN CHOOSE KDNS AND TO ACT WISELY SO THAT WE - AND THOSE AROUND - SUFFER LS.WE CAN CULTIVATE AN UNWAVERG GROUND OF WELL-BEG THAT IS OUR FOUNDATN AND OUR HOME - NO MATTER THE STORMS THAT LIFE BRGS.WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?MDFULNS AND MEDATN ENABLE TO BRG THE POWER OF AWARENS TO OUR THOUGHTS, FEELGS, AND ACTNS. YOU N CHOOSE HOW YOU RPOND TO OUR NER AND OUTER LIFE. I'LL SHOW YOU HOW.WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?WHAT YOU'LL LEARN"MDFULNS BRGS AWARENS TO WHAT YOU ARE DOG, AND WH THAT CLARY THE POSSIBILY OF CHOICE. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE ALL HAVE THE NATE ABILY TO BE AWARE. IT IS THE NATURE OF OUR MD. HOWEVER MOST PEOPLE’S MDS ARE UNTRAED, SO THE WAY MANY OF E OUR ATTENTN IS LS THAN OPTIMAL. WH MDFULNS MEDATN, YOU N LEARN TO TERCEPT UNHELPFUL, UNWANTED HABS AND CULTIVATE POSIVE ON. AS YOU LEARN TO DO THAT THE LABORATORY OF MEDATN, YOU N TRANSLATE THAT SKILL TO THE RT OF YOUR LIFE."MARK COLEMANGNY GAY, CERTIFIED MDFULNS TEACHER

The aim of this study is to explore body image and the potential relatnships to mdfulns, self-passn, and mdful eatg gay and bisexual men to rm future mdful and/or passn-based terventn to attenuate body related issu. 94) were English-speakg, om the UK and self-intified as eher gay (89%, n = 145), bi-sexual (7. Further note: BI-AAQ-5 – Body image Acceptance and Actn sle (higher sr reprent higher body non-acceptance)Full size imageDiscsnThe aim of this rearch was to explore body image, body acceptance and their relatnship to mdfulns, self-passn, and mdful eatg among gay and bisexual men.

The fdgs prented wh a gay populatn reflect the out of rearch wh general and more specific populatns (Albertson et al., 2015). First, the cross-sectnal nature of this study do provi limed sight, and qualative exploratns should gather more -pth data om gay men.

This uld be specifilly proment wh this muny; whereby the social fluence of perceived body ials is pound by perceptns of other gay men, particularly when ‘gay spac’ which negatively impacts on body self-acceptance (Regan et al., 2021). Future rearch should explore the ncepts wh gay and bisexual men more standard social parameters to ga a more a prehensive sl and rrpondg ems clud this study were pleted at one time by participants, the anticipated pletn time was around 15-20 mut.

SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS

67) disproportnate number of gay men who took part this study when pared to bisexual men, highlights a lack of balance when nsirg the nclns drawn om this rearch. The office for Natnal Statistics stated that 2019, the percentage of gay and bisexual men wh the UK was 1.

AN AFFIRMATIVE MDFULNS APPROACH FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH

9% (gay men) and 0. Future rearch should enavour to clu a more diverse sample, to produce a balanced approach to drawg nclns around the body image and related ncepts of gay and bisexual men. The thors also nsir the plexy of fg “gay men” or “bisexual men”.

The necsy for a suable terventn to attenuate eatg and body related issu experienced by gay and bisexual men is clear. Mdful and passn-based terventns have been effective rcg body related issu wh other populatns (Balciuniene et al., 2021; Zamzami et al., 2015), therefore, evaluatg the efficy of such terventns wh the gay populatn may provi novel rearch.

This provis sight to the potential addn of body acceptance and mdfulns-based ncepts when nsirg potential avenu overg body-related issu experienced by gay and bisexual men. Elements of male body image: Predictn of prsn, eatg pathology and social sensivy among gay men. It’s not me, ’s you: Perceptns of partner body image preferenc associated wh eatg disorr symptoms gay and heterosexual men.