Jaguars' Kev Maxen First Male Coach to Come Out as Gay U.S. Sports

Contents:

• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?
• IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN PREFER MASCULE-PRENTG GAY MEN FOR A HIGH-STAT ROLE: EVINCE FROM AN ELOGILLY VALID EXPERIMENT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?

Future analys of the muny’s health are warranted.Keywords: Bears, Gay Culture, Gay and Bisexual Men, Self-teem, Masculy, ObyINTRODUCTIONThe gay muny is ultimately a heterogeneo one wh many subgroups and subcultur—one of the monali among them beg the sire to have same-sex enunters. Bee there is a arth of general rearch regardg this muny, and no studi to date that e quantative methods, we cid to explore this muny quantatively—g an Inter-nvenience sample, followed by a purposive sample.As suggted, the Bear culture exhibs and valu a greater sense of domant (but not necsarily domeerg) “thentic masculy” parison to other subcultur wh the gay muny (e.g., twks or drag queens) (Hennen, 2005). Though ostensible siari and overlappg tras exist between Bears and other gay male subcultur (e.g., the Leathermen), rearch dit that their exprsns of masculy, tolerance of behavrs, and valu may be unique (Wright, 1997).

In rponse and ntrast wh Leathermen, Bears mata their mascule inty whout adoptg negative hypermascule tennci to acmodate all partners, spe their size or body hairs.There is some theoretil support for why the Bear inty spltered om the gay male mastream culture.

IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

That is, to ntradict “superordate” gay male subcultur (e.g., twks, partyboys, A-listers) that are anthetil to, and even antagonistic towards Bears, men who are hairier and heavier exist and adopt an inty to afont the stereotypil “alpha” gay male. Th, beg “gged,” “natural,” and “mascule” are revented by this muny through creased weight, hairs, and difference to fashn (Hennen, 2005).Popular culture, the media, and Wtern hetero- and homosexual expectatns have normalized the ial male body as one that is lean, mcular, and v-shaped (wh broad shoulrs, a narrow waist, and a flat but well-fed stomach) (Olivardia, Pope, Borowiecki, & Cohane, 2000). It even has been noted that, as a rult of the extreme importance placed on body image, physlogil (e.g., anorexia/bulimia) and psychologil pathologi (e.g., poor self-image/self-teem) velop both heterosexual and homosexual men exhibg ls sirable physil tras (Beren, Hayn, Wilfley, & Grilo, 1996; Morrison, Morrison, & Sager, 2004; Pepl et al., 2009; Weer, 2009; Yelland & Tiggemann, 2003).

Whereas mastream gay men often do not engage sired or preferred sexual behavrs bee of fears of rejectn or judgment (Kamski, Chapman, Hayn, & Own, 2004), those the more acceptg Bear muny reject the fears due to their beg ultimately “feme” nature (Hennen, 2005). Acrdgly, men intifyg as Bears may be trsilly more terted enactg diverse sexual behavrs, some of which are equated wh masculy, and ph the lims of what may be nsired socially acceptable or normative sexual behavrs (e.g., uratn, fistg, voyrism, exhibnism) (Grov, Parsons, & Bimbi, 2010).Due to the active existence of the Bear muny and regnn of this subculture by the larger gay/bisexual male culture, more rearch is need to explore the gree to which the prevly mentned physil, behavral, and psychologil differenc actually exist. Therefore, the most nservative timate of the Bear prevalence among gay and bisexual men would be the 14% llected at PriFt.ProcreSample 1: Craigslist Study Procr Men wh varyg sexuali who had placed sexual advertisements the “men seekg men” personals sectn of were asked to plete a brief onle survey om January to March 2008.

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

Group Non-Bearn = 41177.4% Bearn =12022.6%Non-Bearn (% of group)Bearn (% of group)Race/ethnicy Asian/Pacific Islanr9 (2.2)0 (0.0) Black17 (4.1)3 (2.5) Hispanic/Lato24 (5.8)7 (5.8) Whe351 (85.5)107 (89.2) Other/Mixed10 (2.4)3 (2.5)Edutn Some high school/fished high school45 (10.9)18 (15.0) Some unrgraduate140 (34.1)37 (30.8) Fished unrgraduate118 (28.7)30 (25.0) Some graduate/fished graduate108 (26.3)35 (29.2)Sexual Orientatn Homosexual243 (59.1)88 (73.3) Bisexual123 (29.9)25 (20.8) Heterosexual/No label45 (10.9)7 (5.8). Leatherman Competn606 (51.1)253 (72.5) PriFtst581 (48.9)96 (27.5)Race/ethnicy Asian/Pacific Islanr23 (1.9)3 (0.9) Black123 (10.4)19 (5.4) Hispanic/Lato77 (6.5)28 (8.0) Whe890 (75.1)274 (78.5) Other/Mixed/No label72 (6.1)27 (7.7)Edutn Some high school/fished high school189 (15.9)33 (9.4) Some Unrgraduate286 (24.1)91 (26.1) Fished Unrgraduate372 (31.4)92 (26.4) Some graduate/fished graduate340 (28.6)133 (38.1)Sexual Orientatn Homosexual1034 (87.4)332 (95.7) Bisexual75 (6.3)11 (3.2) Heterosexual75 (6.3)4 (1.1).

Consirg the likely prevalence of a Bear inty may be held (wh varyg tenaci) by about 14–22% of gay men, the rults provi addnal evince for the manift and latent heterogeney of gay and bisexual men.The rults regardg body tras and partner selectn nfirm, for the first time a systematic manner, fdgs documented prev terview and ethnographic studi. Regardls of the potential explanatn, Bears appear to be more sexually diverse and explorative than mastream gay and bisexual men.The rults documented lower self-teem, which ntradicted both our hypothis and others’ terview rearch (e.g., Manley et al., 2007). In this rpect, Bears may overtimate and overstate re towards partners to self-prent as beg distct om men adherg to the mastream gay culture (which are often stereotyped as treatg partners as disposable) (Isay, 2009).A portra emerg om the Bear rults that supports a theory for why the gay muny ultimately is so heterogeneo (and th produc the high gree of spoff subcultur): Cultur facilate succsful same-sex enunters.

GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN PREFER MASCULE-PRENTG GAY MEN FOR A HIGH-STAT ROLE: EVINCE FROM AN ELOGILLY VALID EXPERIMENT

As Bears are not vastly different towards their sexual partners than mastream gay men, the culture veloped to ensure that even the heavit, hairit, and/or shortt dividual uld partner.LimatnsOur studi were not whout their limatns. Whether the ems are applible to gay men, bisexuals, or men qutng their sexualy remas unknown.Wh rpect to methods, the parabily of sampl may be somewhat uncerta, as one was llected through ter surveyg and the other, through paper survey. A study that answers the rearch qutns would provi further evince to support the heterogeney hypothis: Not only is the mastream gay muny culturally heterogeneo, but so are the sexual health behavrs and problems wh .One last suggtn for future rearch would be to tt some of the theori generated by the current data.

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

Future rearchers should wonr what other ways nformg or not nformg to gay norms, stereotyp, and the larger heterosexual culture impacts dividuals and their self-inti.AcknowledgmentsSpecial thanks to Cheryl “Caz” Szler, M.A., Kev Brown, M. As every gay man knows who has been sulted or asslted for his actual or perceived sexual orientatn, there are steep penalti for vlatg the Boy Co as there are for anyone who is “different” om the prumed (typilly whe, heterosexual, middle-class) standard. Robert Pollack says the most important thg a fay n do to support their gay son is to keep lovg him, “to nvey to him, as soon as he shar his feelgs, that he is still loved through and through, that his sexual orientatn will not any way dimish how much he is admired and rpected.

Fortunately there is a long history of gay men who bucked the accepted fns of masculy and created liv that exprsed their unrstandg of themselv and how they choose to exprs their inty as men who don’t necsarily f tradnal molds. In a 1987 say tled “A Separate People Whose Time Has Come, ” Hay scribed homosexuals as “spir people, ” who, throughout the ag, had served society their rol as “msengers and tercers, shamans of both genrs, prits and prits, imagemakers and prophets, mim and rhapsos, poets and playwrights, healers and nurturers, teachers and preachers, tkers and tkerers, searchers and rearchers. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy. The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch.