This gay hockey referee lov the game. Hockey don’t love him back. - Outsports

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• GAY PAC-12 REFEREE HAS BEEN WH HIS PARTNER FOR 29 YEARS. NOW HE'S G OUT TO HELP OTHERS.
• THIS GAY REFEREE JT WORKED AN AMERIN HOCKEY LEAGUE GAME, A FIRST FOR THE LEAGUE
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• THIS GAY HOCKEY REFEREE LOV THE GAME. HOMOPHOBIA TELLS HIM THE GAME DON’T LOVE HIM BACK.
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

GAY PAC-12 REFEREE HAS BEEN WH HIS PARTNER FOR 29 YEARS. NOW HE'S G OUT TO HELP OTHERS.

Steve Strimlg don't need you to know he's gay. Already on ESPN and Fox Sports every tumn Saturday, Strimlg certaly don't seek some form of notoriety as a gay referee football, Ameri's most powerful cultural stutn. The articl I read about other gay people sports each say how much they helped others.

If someone los assignments bee he's gay? Through all, beg gay hasn't held him back om advancg as an official.

"I've never thought beg gay was hard for me at all.

THIS GAY REFEREE JT WORKED AN AMERIN HOCKEY LEAGUE GAME, A FIRST FOR THE LEAGUE

Take me beg gay away and I had the same good and bad thgs my life as anyone else. Strimlg rri himself wh a ep self-nfince that has eed him om the fears drivg so many other gay people sports om sharg their te selv. "Losg those years as an official wasn't bee I was gay - It was bee I was an asshole.

Still, Strimlg unrstands that his experienc - largely ee om homophobia - are partly a byproduct of livg Los Angel at a time when society's perspectiv of gay people are changg rapidly. Last year Outsports ran the story of a closeted gay high school and llege official Louisiana who had seen and heard btal homophobia om fans and his fellow officials.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Other gay officials at some of llege's hight levels have shared wh me a fear of losg assignments if they talk about beg married to their hband. While Strimlg -- never a "Wt Hollywood, go out to the clubs kd of guy" -- has certaly heard homophobic language on the field and the locker room over the years -- "that's how guys talk" -- he personally will not tolerate other gay officials losg opportuni bee of who they are. That's not bee Michael and I are gay.

While plenty of people officiatg know about his fay, he unrstands there are still pockets of football where gay people are not pletely unrstood.

Dre Barone has been out as a gay man the world of hockey officiatg sce at least 2015. Barone is believed to be the first publicly out gay man to officiate an AHL game. Other North Amerin gay male sports officials to fd succs have clud hockey’s Alex Valvo the NCAA, Steve Strimlg Pac-12 football and the NBA’s Bill Kennedy.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Men’s profsnal hockey ntu to be unr-reprented the LGBTQ muny, wh former player Brock McGillis and current player Le Prokop beg the rare gay male athlet to e out and around the sport. Amanda Ser has broken ground as a football official on a number of levels, and she’s the first publicly out gay referee profsnal football. For Ser’s story, which was also wrten by out gay football official Joshua Lewis, head over to Football Zebras.

Igor Benevenuto is doublg down on the fact that more athlet are gay or bi than people thk.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Benevenuto, who is the first FIFA referee to e out as gay, has recently claimed that 30 to 40 percent of people volved the world of football/soccer are gay or bisexual. Between 30 and 40 percent are homosexual or bisexual, or have done somethg at some pot wh another man. You’d be surprised who is homosexual the football dtry.

He shared, “In Brazil homosexualy is seen as an illns siar to alholism, which n be overe. Igor Benevenuto me out as gay July. This mak him the first openly gay referee all of FIFA.

THIS GAY HOCKEY REFEREE LOV THE GAME. HOMOPHOBIA TELLS HIM THE GAME DON’T LOVE HIM BACK.

In the 90th mute, the referee psed the match bee of homophobic chantg. FIFA has prevly fed the Mexin Football Feratn for homophobic chants ma by the untry’s fans. A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments.

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

"We are also actually gay furri, I've seen untls people doubt that aspect of our group.". "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments. 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.