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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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
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By Jam Denn by KapallGiven all the terrible anti-gay laws passed this month, we built a list of LGBT iendly pani.
Arizona has bee the third state the past three months to pass what the media is llg "gay segregatn laws. Digned to prevent discrimatn agast people who would prefer not to do bs wh homosexuals — a very sympathetic mographic to beg wh — the law would be one of the first ever to addrs a form of discrimatn that never laws will almost certaly be turned over by the Supreme Court (which has some precents on the books about segregatn), and they will probably be remembered as a brief backlash to the wi-spread, rapid progrs gay marriage advot have achieved the last few years.
However they still serve as an excellent remr that while advot have acplished a great al sce the first state ratified gay marriage 2004, the road to full equaly is still long and full of pani cludg Amerin Airl (AAL) have already nmned the new laws, and that got askg, which pani rporate Ameri have the bt rerd when to LGBT issu? As discsed the first article this Pri 2021 seri on LGBTQ+ Marketg, Reprentg Fifty Shas of Gay the LGBTQ+ Marketplace, 's almost enough to make LGBTQ+ people feel that the stggle for equaly may fally be over.
Gay Pri Month 2022 will feature march, paras and a rporate backlash that hurts gay rights and acceptance across the polil spectm. * gay corporate social *
Most LGBTQ nsumers are aware of pani such as Hobby Lobby, Chick-Fil-A (Chick-Fil-A as a pany has vowed to disntue support for anti-gay measur through s foundatn, but s CEO, Dan Cathy, is still a keen anti-LGBTQ+ donor) and Publix that ntue wh ratgs of zero on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equaly Inx (HRC CEI), a natnal benchmarkg tool on rporate polici, practic, and benefs pertent to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer employe. In that era of Corporate Avoidance to avoid backlash om mastream nsumers, LGBTQ+ people stggled to live their often-closeted liv as the foils for GOP's Moral Majory power grab an era of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the Defense of Marriage Act, and what Frank Rich scribed 1999 as "[t]he homophobic epimic of '98, which spiked wh the October murr of Matthew Shepard. ” An ad wh a rabow or some gay uld earn pani enormo loyalty the s before same-sex marriage, legal parentg, and protectns agast discrimatn.
“Challenger Groups, Commercial Organizatns, and Policy Enactment: Lol Lbian/Gay Rights Ordanc the Uned Stat om 1972 to 2008. “Explag tnal fluenc on attus toward homosexual relatns.
Changg Corporate Ameri om Insi Out: Lbian and Gay Workplace Rights (Social Movements, Prott and Contentn). “Public opn and gay rights the workplace. More than 50 years after the famo Stonewall rts, the only Pri Month tradn more predictable than big cy paras June are the perennial plats about the “modifitn” of the gay rights movement.
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The days, the month often featur rporatns and nsumer brands participatg the celebratns, wh bright rabow packagg and gay-themed ems for sale. Claimg that a gay person needs to vote for a certa party or suate themselv on a certa pot of the iologil spectm is — to e some of today’s pop psychology terms — gatekeepg and gaslightg. Crics often sist that rporatns’ mment to gay pri is shallow and self-servg, or that rabow-themed merchandise and advertisg durg June end up tokenizg rather than celebratg the muny.
Buyg a T-shirt wh the phrase “Love Is Not a Crime” om Target won’t, on s own, change the world or end anti-gay discrimatn. Though there are historil nnectns between the gay rights movement and opposg palism, ’s a mistake for the LGBTQ muny today to embrace an anti-rporate attu.