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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. * blue boy gay icon *

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.

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.

WHY THE BLUE BOY PATG IS A GAY IN

Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. * blue boy gay icon *

Has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls.

The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay. But how many visors this time around will know about the patg's private life as a symbol of gay pri?

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Valerie Hedquist, a profsor of art history at the Universy of Montana, has wrten extensively about the patg and s role as a gay in. In one photograph taken by Napoleon Sarony 1882, Wil, swanky buckled sho and knickerbockers, stck the exact pose of Blue of Wil, misappropriated medil books, embedd a savagely tolerant view of same-sex attractn, based closely around the stereotyped visual "tells" of Blue BoyWhen Wil was imprisoned for his homosexualy on charg of gross cency 1895, he beme the most famo publicly gay man the world – and the photographs of him by Sarony were misappropriated. Acrdg to Hequist, "they eventually end up the first medil books that were teachg people how to regnise homosexualy".

Acrdg to Hedquist, a formative episo was the so-lled "lavenr sre" the 1950s which gay men and women were perceived to be threats to natnal secury and were hound om ernment office.

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Common stereotyp of gay portment – now lghable their ignorance – such as lacy cuffs and fancy sho, were ced as signifiers of the "enemi wh". It led to sister edic parodi of perceived gay behavur popular culture, wh outlets cludg rtoon strips. The rtoon's vert msage and sentiment is homophobic; Hedquist se as Blue Boy's first "outg".

"The emergg ias about how people see gay men is so important to how the Blue Boy be an inic image, " says Hedquist, "first of all as a source of ridicule and then as a reappropriatn.

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The reappropriatn me the form of a gay magaze first published 1974, lled "Blue Boy". It remend gay-iendly hotels and bars and fostered a sense of muny. "The first gay travel agency was lled 'Blue Boy', " Hedquist explas.

"They had cis and hotels where men uld be openly gay, wearg 'Blue Boy' T-shirts and rryg 'Blue Boy' travel bags. It was a full reappropriatn and a celebratn that the Blue Boy was gay. " In the perd after the Stonewall rts, this was a galvanisg symbol, and has left a legacy of multiple "Blue Boy" gay bars around the world.

Blue Boy was appropriated equently by the US ceramicist Howard Kottler, a choice that exprsed “explic homosexual referenc”, acrdg to art historian Vicki Halper. But the most explic referenc to the Blue Boy me the work of another US ceramicist, Léopold Foulem: acrdg to Hedquist, he "transformed the tentative allns to gay ntent found the work of Lambert and Kottler to a full-blown rt of queer signifince" wh his highly provotive scen of the Blue Boy trysts wh characters like Father Christmas and Colonel Sanrs.

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Other artists who have intified as gay, such as Robert Rschenberg and Keh Wiley, have ced Blue Boy as a major fluence on their later output, wh Wiley havg recently created a direct homage that is currently on display at the Huntgton Art Mm California ( 1921, Henry and Arabella Huntgton bought The Blue Boy om the art aler Joseph Duveen, who had acquired om the De of Wtmster). Wiley's patg, showg a 21st-Century Blue Boy wh dyed blond dreadlocks, Apple watch and baseball p, marks the culmatn of a two-centuri-long journey of Gasborough's origal om a pillar of tradnal cultural valu to gay in.

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Acrdg to Hedquist, Blue Boy is a game-changg symbol the history of gay rights. Apart om s appeal to gay artists, s e as a brandg emblem Blue Boy magaze the 1970s seemed to have a roundg historil signifince. "It provid a means of leadg a full public existence as a gay man – and all me through Blue Boy.

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