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- GAY BUFFALO FAN GO VIRAL WEARG HIS BILLS PRI SHIRT
- BCE SMH SAYS HE HAD A GAY BILLS TEAMMATE, MAYBE 2, AND ACCEPTED THEM
- BCE SMH: ‘90S BILLS HAD A GAY PLAYER, THE RT OF THE TEAM DIDN’T RE
GAY BUFFALO FAN GO VIRAL WEARG HIS BILLS PRI SHIRT
In this story:Jacksonville JaguarsJaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen beme the first publicly-known male ach Amerin men’s profsnal sports to e out as gay Thursday.Maxen spoke wh Outsports to share his journey and why he’s choosg to e out publicly.“I don’t want to feel like I have to thk about anymore,” Maxen said.
I want 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, who has been wh his partner Nick for over two years, exprsed that the ntued support om the people around him helped him feel fortable to share his news.“It wasn’t until recently—and wh the immense love and support of my fay, my iends, lleagu and peers, and the urage and sacrifice om my partner—that I realized I have the right and rponsibily to love and be loved, and that maybe sharg this will hopefully give someone else the strength to accept their own life and take ntrol of their own story,” Maxen said.Maxen also noted that he reached out to Carl Nassib, who is the only known gay NFL player the league right now, back Feb.
“playoff saturday, but make gay #gobills, ” Dryfhout, who is gay, tweeted prr to the Bills’ 27-24 w over the Colts, wearg the Pri shirt wh the distctive Buffalo logo sent to him by one of his 32, 000 Twter followers.
BCE SMH SAYS HE HAD A GAY BILLS TEAMMATE, MAYBE 2, AND ACCEPTED THEM
Bce Smh, one of the bt players NFL history, isn’t shy about his support for Carl Nassib and gay athlet. Smh also shared that he knew he had a gay teammate on the Bills, and he didn’t re:. We had a gay player our locker room the mid to late 90s.
That attu reflects what Hall of Famer Warren Moon said last week about his experience wh gay teammat on the Hoton Oilers:. While this was a revelatn for some people, Moon had talked a ago about his gay teammat, and his equal treatment of them. Also a ago, I asked Michael Irv what would have happened wh the Dallas Cowboys if they had had a gay player on the team the 1990s.
BCE SMH: ‘90S BILLS HAD A GAY PLAYER, THE RT OF THE TEAM DIDN’T RE
“I believe, if a teammate had said he was gay, we would have tegrated him and kept movg bee of the closens, ” Irv told me at the time.