Gay former llege football player talks about beg closeted at Navy and Vanrbilt - Outsports

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• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• GAY FORMER LLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER TALKS ABOUT BEG CLOSETED AT NAVY AND VANRBILT
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U. While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U.

When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.

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

Kev Maxen is 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 that ma him angry — at himself. Men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017. 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 was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports.

Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay. Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U. Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

“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. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

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.

The NFL has played for more than 100 years and there have been 16 gay or bi players to e out publicly. 16 and the first one to e out as gay while on an active roster. Over the years, Outsports has known of a few other players who are gay but have never e out, even when retired.

The NFL Network produced a documentary on Smh beg gay.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

Jenks is gay and this was the the first time he wily discsed his sexual orientatn.

In June, Carl Nassib of the Rairs me out as gay.

Snoeyenbos had a pretty good ia he was gay sce he was at Ravenwood High School Brentwood, Tenn., 20 mut south of Nashville, where he won a state champnship. The standout offensive leman felt a distct attractn to other boys and had ltle tert girls, but he simply uldn't accept that he was "gay. " He nvced himself that an attractn to the same sex didn't make him gay, that was jt a passg phase, or that his creasgly mon thoughts didn't fe him.

GAY FORMER LLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER TALKS ABOUT BEG CLOSETED AT NAVY AND VANRBILT

In his md, he uld be gay or be a football player: He uldn't be both. While he grew up a relig home, first Mnota then Tennsee after a fay move, his perceptn of gay people me largely om sports.

Preachgs om the pulp about the ss of homosexualy went largely unabsorbed - Language om his ach and teammat, on the other hand, h him the gut.

If I wanted to be good at football, there's no way I uld be gay. It wasn't necsarily outright homophobia that got to him, but rather persistent, overt heterosexualy that domated locker room banter.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Sce he knew he would never act on his gay thoughts, Don't Ask Don't Tell - still the law of the land at the time - didn't apply. "At the time, as far as my md was ncerned, I wasn't gay.

I knew I was only attracted to men but I nvced myself that that didn't make me gay. Naval Amy spokperson John Schofield said any mistreatment of gay athlet or outsi the locker room is not tolerated. Snoeyenbos said wh "100% certaty" that if he were llege football today and had wnsed the g out of the lik of Michael Sam and Jason Colls, he would have felt more fortable wh beg gay.

"There was no one that I knew of who fied that perceptn, no succsful male athlete who was also gay.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

While other football players - like David Kopay, Roy Simmons and Esera Tuaolo - had e out prevly, he hadn't been able to watch them pete as openly gay men. While was one thg to see the overt heterosexualy, proactive statements of acceptance and nversatns about gay people uld have built a fort level for Snoeyenbos on the team that may have opened the door to a five-year reer at Vanrbilt.

Though he never me out to a teammate or a ach, and while he never que felt like he f on a football team, he wants gay athlet to know what he wish someone explaed to him seven years ago: You n be gay and succsful sports. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U.

Kev Maxen me out as gay an terview wh Outsports.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

That’s certaly the se wh the San Francis 49ers, where Katie Sowers beme the first woman and openly gay ach Super Bowl history last season. There are fear-mongerg stori about closeted Premier League players Brish tabloids, and loud opns about how homophob sports are even more proud now.

A study of g-out stori on Outsports shows that male athlet are overwhelmgly acceptg of gay teammat.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

' "In his ttimony, Banks said teammat had long bullied him bee he was smaller, and lled him gay bee he had a girliend and didn't rack up a "body unt" of women he slept wh at llege.

The subject was the impact of Carl Nassib g out as gay the NFL for the Las Vegas Rairs. Matea offensive leman Jake Strer, who is gay, is one of five current or former LGBTQ athlet profiled. “When I returned to football my sophomore year after g out was bee I knew that if I qu football was jt the begng of thgs I would qu or hold myself back om bee I was gay, ” Strer told Outsports.

“To fast forward to my last football game my senr year and have end wh ‘NFL 360’ there to clu me a story celebratg the first openly gay football player NFL history is still really unbelievable to me. EST, we see scen of Strer’s last game as a Matea Mtang, terspersed wh him speakg about beg gay football and what Nassib’s g out meant to him. Their experienc are universal, ways good and bad, for many LGBTQ people — Pick talkg about the pa om the ial rejectn by her mom; O’Callaghan discsg suicidal thoughts before beg rcued by a therapist; Rapoport’s touchg rellectn of g out to NFL Commissner Roger Gooll by approachg him at a Super Bowl event holdg her girliend’s hand and Gooll’s se upon seeg ; Saffold discsg growg up Black and gay on the South Si of Chigo “where there are rampant levels of homophobia” and Strer on how he ed to worry “about how bad my life might be after I me out.