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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• MULTIPLE NBA NTENRS REPORTEDLY TERTED RUDY GAY
• INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS: 7 SPAC MA FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• 13 INDY MEN ARE HEAD TO GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI. ONE SAYS 'THIS TEAM SAVED MY LIFE'
• MATT GAY

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY 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. 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. Jacksonville Jaguars' Kev Maxen has ma the public statement "to be vol support of people livg how they want to live, but I also want to jt live and not feel fear about how people will react"; Maxen is the first male ach a major Amerin sports league to e out as gay.

Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major Amerin sports league to e out as gay.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St Louis Rams selected him 2021, Carl Nassib, then wh the Las Vegas Rairs, beme the first active NFL player to e out publicly. The Varsy Gay League is startg a flag football league Los Angel, and has the backg of the Super Bowl champs.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

[The McDonald’s] spot foc on buildg safe plac for the LGBTQ+ muny and featur team members om the Varsy Gay League, the origal Queer+ recreatnal sports league that reprents over 40, 000 LGBTQ+ athlet across the U. As part of our celebratn of Pri Month, the Rams will be spotlightg four LA non-profs/small bs supportg the LGBTQ+ muny, aimg to raise awarens of those anizatns' seri kicks off wh the Varsy Gay League, the natn's origal Queer+ recreatnal sports leagu.

"LGBTQ reprentatn matters, and we see that even when to chicken sandwich, " Andrew Miller, Director of Operatns of Varsy Gay League. Rather, I worked to program the entire night around celebratg LGBTQ+ Pri, om pregame kickball the outfield by the Varsy Gay League, to the ribbon boards and sreboards proudly proclaimg LGBT Pri Night around the stadium. For example, the Varsy Gay League offers bowlg, beach volleyball, and even trivia ci like At and Sacramento.

Cy Councilmember Pl Koretz and the Los Angel Dodgers raised $16, 000 on Gay Pri weekend to be ed to improve secury at Posettia money, which exceed VGL’s ial goal of $10, 000 was donated to the Los Angel Parks Foundatn c/o Posettia Parks Friends.

MULTIPLE NBA NTENRS REPORTEDLY TERTED RUDY GAY

For our annual celebratn of sports, the Los Angel Bla reached out to LA’s very own Varsy Gay League and asked players and team lears to nomate their choic for the most outstandg athlet among their ranks. One of the easit ways I ma iends was by jog Varsy Gay League, an LGBTQ-clive weekend kickball league… I wouldn't have believed you if you told me that four months would be enough time to fd iends I adore, a roommate I'm obssed wh, someone to fall love wh, someone to break my heart, and oodl of cliché Cali drama to get swept up — but I'd have been wrong. Hackner found Varsy Gay League 2007 and has sce grown to an anizatn reachg the LGBT muny 13 ci across eight stat wh over 15, 000 members.

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“It’s monstratg that a trans person, gay person of lor and a cis whe man, we n all participate together on the same team or play petively agast one another.

INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS: 7 SPAC MA FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY

She is ee to talk about how church lears at her llege would say that was okay to be gay but not to act on . Most of all, he lov meetg people the LGBTQ+ muny, pecially those who are different om him as a whe cisgenr gay grew up a small town Geia where he had to nceal who he was. ”Bee he kept his inty a secret for most of his life, he did not know much about gay culture until after he me out to his nt 2017 at the Indy Pri Para.

Crawford was already volved the Gay and Lbian Tennis Alliance, an LGBTQ+ sports group that aniz ternatnal tennis tournaments, when one of the other members asked if Crawford would jo the Stonewall Sports kickball league. The Los Angel Lakers are one of five teams said to be actively explorg the optn of signg Rudy Gay this, 36, is obvly no longer the 20 PPG srer that he was for most of his reer. “Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, ” he Lakers have been lked to a different potential pick-up recent days, but an obstacle uld rail the team’s plans.

A., the Mavericks and Pelins are two teams that uld really e the sort of veteran learship Gay would brg to the Warrrs and Bulls, meanwhile, would likely provi the most seamls of possible transns for Gay terms of how he lik to play and the way the talent around him would work. Which mak this cisn of where he will play next all the more Gay wants to w a champnship, he has to select the right landg spot for the 2023-24 NBA season. Gay bars offer LGBTQ+ muny members a place to go which they n be fortable and treated as humans, they ’s important that the spac rema open, as a bs and to the public, so people and outsi of the LGBTQ+ muny n enjoy the bars and experience queer culture, said Alexanr, stage name Duchs Morngstar.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

The bs has sce remaed a part of the gay bar Our Place routely hosts drag performance nights, featurg artists such as Sage Summers, Heather Bea and Brooklyn Burroughs, and drag pageants. English Ivy's -owner Sam Stt said about 80% of the bar's clientele are regulars, llg the bar a "gay Cheers, " referencg the bar the 90s s "where everybody knows your name.

The eatery loted the Sat Joseph neighborhood is not a dance club, but rather a “gay-therg” place for members of the LGBTQ+ muny and alli, acrdg to s webse. By night is Almost Famo, an “everyone bar, ” which do not market self as a gay bar but ters to queer people, said assistant general manager Jam Alexanr, stage name Duchs Morngstar. “You n e to this environment and be queer and feel like you’re safe but ’s not your typil what you would thk gay bar feel, ” said show director Myke Dobbs, whose stage name is Lady Dumpster.

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

For many years, Zonie’s has been one of the ma plac to see profsnal performers and one of the few gay bars to host open stage nights for amatr artists. McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.

He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport.

McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay. ”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry.

13 INDY MEN ARE HEAD TO GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI. ONE SAYS 'THIS TEAM SAVED MY LIFE'

’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one.

“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy. Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned.

In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done.

MATT GAY

The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L. “Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth.

McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely.

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. Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017.