Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength ach, out as gay

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Brandon Black talks playg the first gay character a Tyler Perry Maa movie.

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

As Tyler Perry brgs the first Maa movie to Netflix, Brandon Black plays the anchise's first gay character. * ed brandon gay *

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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. ”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis.

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Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time.

Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs.

Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. Wh your role as Tim, you have played the first openly gay character Maa history. Y, I keep talkg about how I want to see more gay stori, and not all of them are gonna be the tragic, dark, shameful stori.

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I want to book some straight parts, and I want you to see an out gay Black man playg straight rol the way you see straight men playg gay rol. And then the other thg is, I really want to see more gay rol [different] genr.

You don’t really see a leadg gay character a psychologil thriller—you see some foreign gay films, but terms of mass-produced, stud-backed big films or televisn shows… Like image if you saw like Archive 81, which is a really ol show, but what if he was gay though? Same thg, same stori, same everythg, but he was gay. That’s the kd of stuff I’m hopg exists more the future, and there’s a lot of gay Black actors that are on the rise right now, and I’m so exced to be part of that swell, and I hope that this movie helps that even further.

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Benign bee this time the Simmons matriarch was biddg hellur to a gay character — notably, the first openly gay character to ever appear a Maa movie. It's nice, one uld even say important, to see a Black fay beg so supportive of an LGBTQ+ relative, pecially sce Black folks are often falsely picted as beg somehow more homophobic than the rt of society.

For Brandon Black, who's openly gay, that g-out scene is what sold him on the project. " EW talked to the San Diego native about jog the Maaverse, beg Black and gay Hollywood, the bety of endls mimosas, and sharg scen wh a 6'5" great-grandmother who also happened to be his boss.

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So you play the first openly gay character a Maa movie. And when I found out I was the first gay character a Maa movie, I thought, "Well, I thk I'm qualified for the job. It's really excg that this movie wh this many ey on is gog to have a gay, Black character who is sure of himself.

I told myself when I move to Los Angel, I will be a gay person who has moved to Los Angel. I got my mom dnk on some endls mimosas — a very gay task [lghs] — and then I told her. This might be a ltle heavy of a qutn, but what's been your experience as a Black, openly gay actor Hollywood?

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