"Stand by Me: The Fotten History of Gay Liberatn" by Jim Downs

Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• TYLER DOWNS IS STILL BATTLG THE RUMORS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY – IS HE GAY?
• DEIDRE DOWNS, FIRST OPENLY GAY MISS AMERI, EXPECTG BABY GIRL WH WIFE
• GAY MEN NEED A SPECIFIC WARNG ABOUT MONKEYPOX
• ‘STAND BY ME: THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN’ BY JIM DOWNS
• FIRST GAY MISS AMERI DEIDRE DOWNS AND WIFE EXPECTG BABY GIRL

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS 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 orientatn.And that ma him angry — at himself.“It was an anger and hatred of myself bee I put myself a life where I was livg by other people’s l and not by my own,” Maxen told Outsports.

First-year Sparks ach Curt Miller, who ached the Connecticut Sun for seven years before that, has been out for s.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 Rairs.It was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports. 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. 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 COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

"The first openly gay wner the famed pageant's history, Downs, an obstetrician-gynelogist, spent her 16 months as reigng monarch travelg to children's hospals around the untry to raise awarens of pediatric ncer, forhadowg her current medil reer.

"That was really the first time I maybe reflected and realized that I was gay, " she said, acrdg to She ced her socially nservative surroundgs as one of the reasons she ially failed to rrectly label her sexual orientatn.

TYLER DOWNS IS STILL BATTLG THE RUMORS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY – IS HE GAY?

Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS (4-12-1)CAMP SITE: Wtfield, IndianaKEY ADDITIONS: Head ach Shane Steichen, offensive ordator Jim Bob Cooter, QB Anthony Richardson, QB Gardner Mshew, K Matt Gay, DE Samson Ebam, DT Taven Bryan, CB JuJu Brents, WR Josh Downs.

Goldsmh / Rsell Regner / CDC / APA disproportnate number of s the recent monkeypox outbreak have shown up among gay and bisexual men. And as public-health thori vtigate possible lks to sexual or other close physil ntact at a Pri event the Canary Islands, a sna Madrid, and other gay venu Europe, ernment officials are tryg hard not to sgle out a group that endured terrible stigma at the height of Ameri’s AIDS crisis. For many years, followg the outbreak of HIV, the fear of beg judged or shamed has dissuad some gay men om beg as a gay man who studi the history of fect disease, I worry that public-health lears are not dog enough to directly alert men who have sex wh men about monkeypox.

Gay men are not the only people at risk, but they do need to know that, right now, the ndn appears to be spreadg most actively wh their muny. Yet many other well-tentned officials appear fearful of sayg somethg homophobic, and news outlets have published articl emphasizg that monkeypox is “not a gay disease. ” Their utn is warranted, but health agenci are puttg gay men at risk unls they prrize them for terventns such as public-awarens mpaigns, vacc, and tts.

DEIDRE DOWNS, FIRST OPENLY GAY MISS AMERI, EXPECTG BABY GIRL WH WIFE

Public-health officials need to work wh gay-muny health centers and other LGBTQ anizatns to liver rmatn about monkeypox symptoms to doctors and their patients. Although gay activist groups and clics may be refully monorg the outbreak, I am ncerned about gay men areas where doctors may be unaware of the pathophyslogy of the vis. Therefore, public-health agenci should also prs gay social-media apps and other onle platforms to tell their ers that men who have sex wh men have been disproportnately fected by the vis.

In the past, HIV preventn and treatment efforts reached whe men but not the large number of men of lor and workg-class and poor men who beme fected wh that The LGBT health movement, 40 years sce homosexualy was a mental illnsFor the moment, both the media and public officials ntue to ame monkeypox as rare. Yet though the number of documented s remas small, the prumptn that the outbreak is an anomaly is precisely what misled medil thori, journalists, and even gay people themselv 40 years ago, when HIV first entered the headl. AIDS was routely amed as an unual disorr among a small clter of gay men San Francis and New York, but the pathogen that ed had already circulated far more wily.

GAY MEN NEED A SPECIFIC WARNG ABOUT MONKEYPOX

Public-health mpaigns tried to ease anxiety by creatg subway ads that showed both gay and straight upl kissg to emphasize that HIV didn’t spread that way or talkg about ndoms to promote safer sex. However, for fear of stirrg up anim agast gay men, officials today may be unrplayg the role of sexual transmissn recent monkeypox s. It do seek opportuni to spread—and some queer spac, particularly where people meet for sex, have created the ndns that allow that to premis where gay people ngregate closely have helped fe the muny.

When public-health thori shut down bathho durg the early days of HIV, many gay people saw the closur as a vlatn of their growg liberatn. ) Although I am not suggtg that ernments impose rtrictns on queer spac, health agenci ought to tell gay men that monkeypox may ed be spreadg sexually. Givg gay men refully tailored warngs about monkeypox risk n be a form of tn, not a form of than treatg bathho, clubs, and dance parti exclively as sprears of fect diseas, they should be regnized as potential promoters of sexual health.

‘STAND BY ME: THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN’ BY JIM DOWNS

If gay men are at risk om the monkeypox outbreak, we need to be told that explicly—stead of beg told that the ndn is rare and mostly happeng other parts of the world. Its proprietor, Craig Rodwell, was an eccentric and prcipled philosopher/activist who eply fluenced the people and events that were sential to the changg social perceptn of homosexualy. His ltle bookshop at the tersectn of Gay Street and Christopher Street fostered ristance and rebelln ways both large and small.

FIRST GAY MISS AMERI DEIDRE DOWNS AND WIFE EXPECTG BABY GIRL

This anecdote about the personal and the polil characteriz the exhstive, but never exhstg, scholarship found Jim Downs’s new book, Stand By Me: The Fotten History of Gay Liberatn. Downs begs first by surveyg archival material donated by noted San Francis activist Tommi Avilli Mec at the William Way Communy Center Philalphia, and om there his quiry leads him to a broar quiry that reveals “how gay people built church, found newspapers, tablished bookstor, and re-thought the meang of gay inty. The first chapter is a tailed acunt of what Downs terms “the largt massacre of gay people Uned Stat history.