Jacksonville Jaguars Assistant Coach Kev Maxen Com Out as Gay

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Kev Maxen, assistant ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the first openly gay ach of a U.S. men’s profsnal league sport

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ONE OF DAYTIME TV’S MOST POPULAR SOAPS IS ABOUT TO GET SUPER GAY. AGA.

10 Gay, Bisexual & Queer Soap Opera Stars * the gay soap *

Anyone needg a b more gayns their daytime soaps, take heed: Will and Sonny, the beloved Days of Our Liv gay power uple, will return to the long-nng show on Febary 21. Will and Sonny, played by Chandler Massey and Freddie Smh, ma history as the first gay male uple to get married on a daytime soap opera way back 2014.

Some of the actors and actrs playg the inic rol were straight, some were out and gay at the time, and others me out later on. The first Pri March New York Cy was held on June 28, 1970, one year after the Stonewall Uprisg, to honor the thoands of LGBTQ+ people who took to the streets to monstrate agast the discrimatn they faced hog and employment, the anti-homosexual laws agast gatherg bars or dance clubs, to even be out as a homosexual.

10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG

Soap pted gays vs nservativ — and the gays won. * the gay soap *

The ncept behd the ial march me om members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns who had been anizg an annual July 4th monstratn known as the Remr Day Pickets, at Inpennce Hall Philalphia, between 1965 and 1969. And like a juicy soap opera, that ntroversy ma for some extremely surprisg bedfellows — pecially when me to one of the show’s most divisive elements, the gay character.

BILLY CRYSTAL PORTRAYED FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER ON TV — SI THE 'SOAP' STORY

Jo Soaps as we pay tribute to the out-and-proud gay primetime TV stars and daytime actors. * the gay soap *

On one si were anti-gay activists, hellbent on wrtlg ntrol of the airwav away om the works. On the other si were gay activists, terrified that the show would pat a target on the queer muny.

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

Back 1977, actor and edian Billy Crystal stunned dienc when he portrayed the first openly ga ma character a TV seri, "Soap." and opened the way for gay ins like Ellen DeGener * the gay soap *

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The other group opposed to Soap were gay activists, who had heard that the show would clu a gay character. Queer pictns on TV tend to be pretty negative back then, and activists feared that a gay ma character would rerce negative stereotyp and cement queer people as objects of ntempt viewers’ mds. Bryant’s TV mercials picted gays and lewd and menacg, and persuad Miami to overturn a gay rights ordance.

Between troducg one of the first out gay characters to mass dienc and offerg up scen of unfettable mp, the 1980s prime-time soap, whose early episos were filmed at Filoli, achieved inic stat, pecially among LGBTQ+ dienc. * the gay soap *

Over the next few years, he’d explore relatnships wh women, have a child, and then have his fns as a parent qutned by other characters bee he was gay. Many of the barriers that Soap broke are simply facts of life that we easily accept today: A gay son; fluid genr inti and sexual orientatns; queer parentg.

Same-sex love scen once proved too sndalo for much of mastream TV, but the sex-driven plots of soap operas, gay and lbian characters have enjoyed some moments of timacy worthy of a parental warng.

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Wh the ph to crowdfund a fourth season of steamy gay soap Dante's Cove, surely more heat is on the way. Will and Sonny's First Time (Days of Our Liv)When Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis, young gay members of two major fai on the long-nng soap Days of Our Liv, got together, showed that mment to the characters' sexualy than was more than a sishow.

Ne Explos (As the World Turns)Sometim lled Amerin soaps' first gay super-uple, Le Snyr and Noah Mayer were romantilly lked on the sce-nceled As the World Turns, but waed about two years between a first kiss 2007 and fally dog the ed 2009.

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