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Contents:

• FOR GAY TRIATHLETE, FISHG THE IRONMAN FULFILLS A DREAM
• WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY
• IS THE BODYBUILDG INDTRY GAY FOR PAY? BODYBUILDG TROLL VCE GOODM TAK SHOTS AT NICK TRIGILI
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• FEATURED FANFICTN
• A GAY SUPERHERO? Y PLEASE! JT NOT CAPTA AMERI
• CRISIS OF EPIC PROPORTN: I WANT A GAY IRON MAN
• GAY TRIATHLETE EMBRAC HIS PLACE THE MUNY

FOR GAY TRIATHLETE, FISHG THE IRONMAN FULFILLS A DREAM

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. 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. As the volunteer at the fish le placed a fisher’s medal and Hawaiian lei around my neck, I uldn’t help but thk about the long and wdg road that led me to that extraordary moment, a pivotal part of which was cidg to start livg life as my thentic self: a gay man. It also a hyper-mascule environment where differenc were not tolerated and the perfect place for me to further supprs any homosexual thoughts I was havg.

IS THE BODYBUILDG INDTRY GAY FOR PAY? BODYBUILDG TROLL VCE GOODM TAK SHOTS AT NICK TRIGILI

Work was the only place where I was still closeted, though my close iends there knew I was gay and accepted me wh open arms. However, after a strg of homophobic ments ma by both -workers and suppliers’ reprentativ, I found myself both g out to my boss and HR and mand that thgs change.

Up to this pot both my profsnal reer and amatr sport reer, I had found a lack of gay or otherwise LIGBTQ+ role mols so I cid that if I uldn’t fd that for myself, I was at least gog to make sure that I beme that for someone else.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

Beg gay and beg an athlete are both such important parts of who I am, and I yearn for more reprentatn the sports that I love. Judas Prit ontman Rob Halford has always lived a loud and proud heavy metal life, but only 1998 durg an MTV terview did he bee the first metal in to announce he is gay. “I thk that every gay person has a bigger story to tell than jt, 'Hello, I'm out, 's me, '” Halford, who turned 69 last month, told me a phone terview ahead of the book’s publitn on Tuday.

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

He wanted to sce Iron Main sger Pl Di’Anno, and he sported bandanas onstage that were a lor-d ve to gay amid the lorful stori are darker moments, both terms of dtry algs and pecially keepg himself closeted for so long. Halford was born 1951, and homosexualy was illegal the U.

FEATURED FANFICTN

While a few mastream metal ontwomen like Otep and Lzzy Hale have been open recent years about beg gay or bisexual, Halford remas the only major gay male metal fans are often attracted to the aggrsive and theraptic nature of the genre — ’s a great way to let out pent-up tratn and feel empowered — and many skew more to the right than some of their ins. Self-proclaimed bodybuildg troll Vce Goodm posted a vio slammg Generatn Iron for hirg “Gay 4 Pay” bodybuildg nsult Nick Trigili.

A GAY SUPERHERO? Y PLEASE! JT NOT CAPTA AMERI

Vce Goodm, a YouTuber whose b simply reads “The First Ever Bodybuildg & Fns Inter Troll Of The Indtry, ” lled out Generatn Iron on his YouTube channel for mors that ntributor Nick Trigili was volved gay for pay schem spe not actually beg gay. “From where stands, Nick Trigili has done gay for pay. ” That’s a very tertg opn to exprs a vio that is lerally tled NICK TRIGILI: GAY 4 PAY BODYBUILDER HIRED BY GENERATION IRON…!!!

CRISIS OF EPIC PROPORTN: I WANT A GAY IRON MAN

There are also claims of many rich gay men sponsorg bodybuildg events and athlet. It’s not a secret that homosexual men have paid for sex wh bodybuilrs. Mcle worshipg is prevalent amongst gay men, but ’s also wispread amongst the bodybuildg dtry and those who fd mcle and gettg domated by an dividual arog.

While rearchg for this piece, we spoke wh many people unr anonymy who were surprised to see how many knew of bodybuilrs havg gay for pay sex pag onle wh other men but sistg they were straight. Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).

GAY TRIATHLETE EMBRAC HIS PLACE THE MUNY

Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch. The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic. Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.

‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.

“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.