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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS ANNOUNC HE IS GAY, PLEDG $100,000 TO TREVOR PROJECT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• GAY AND BI FORMER NFL PLAYERS EXCED TO SEE CARL NASSIB TAKE THE FIELD FOR RAIRS
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY, THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO DO SO
• RAIRS PLAYER CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY, FIRST ACTIVE PLAYER NFL HISTORY
• WHY CARL NASSIB IS THE RIGHT PERSON TO BE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER
• RAIRS DE CARL NASSIB BE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER
• CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS IS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY

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

Kev Maxen is gay. No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual orientatn.And that ma him angry — at himself.“It was an anger and hatred of myself bee I put myself a life where I was livg by other people’s l and not by my own,” Maxen told Outsports. Men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017. First-year Sparks ach Curt Miller, who ached the Connecticut Sun for seven years before that, has been out for s.Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas Rairs.It was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS ANNOUNC HE IS GAY, PLEDG $100,000 TO TREVOR PROJECT

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. 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.

I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay.

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

He me to natnal attentn as a star of the Browns' "Hard Knocks" appearance 2018, givg fancial advice to teammat and offerg his take on the existence of Missouri lebacker Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted NFL history 2014, when the Rams took him 249th overall.

Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay.

Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U. Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player. “I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio.

CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS

The Las Vegas Rairs are releasg Carl Nassib, the fensive end who ma history last year as the first openly gay active player NFL history.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

“The Rairs, the NFL, have monstrated that they support this man as a gay man, ” Zeigler said, addg that Nassib’s succsful rerd will help him quickly fd a new team. ” Former NFL player Ryan O’Callaghan, who me out as gay June 2017, after his time the league, said Nassib’s reer monstrat that players do not need to promise their LGBTQ inti sports.

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar suatns.It's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn."I don't want to feel like I have to thk about anymore," Maxen said the piece published Thursday afternoon. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game 2021.The Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Nassib’s nversatn wh Waller was illumatg and marks the first time he spoke at length about his life as the only out gay active NFL player.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

While we’ve wrten about the lack of a media circ that surrounds Nassib, he said ’s still been a challenge — and this was before Jon Gn’s homophobic emails leaked.

“Beg the only out gay guy the NFL is a ltle strsful.

GAY AND BI FORMER NFL PLAYERS EXCED TO SEE CARL NASSIB TAKE THE FIELD FOR RAIRS

As he said, “What other f— gay du has to e out to his entire f— bs? It took one week for Nasib to abolish the ridiculo “distractn myth, ” showg teams n w wh out gay players (the Rairs are 5-3 and tied for first the AFC Wt). As turns out, the straight head ach was a much bigger distractn than the gay player.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

Oct 10, 2021; Kansas Cy, Missouri, USA; Kansas Cy Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay Jr.

Nick Bolton, Willie Gay Jr. After Gay served his four-game spensn to start the season, he played well for 13 gam as well as all three playoff gam. Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat.

NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY

“People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. “One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man. The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak.

Com Out As Gay.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY, THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO DO SO

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RAIRS PLAYER CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY, FIRST ACTIVE PLAYER NFL HISTORY

“It will be emotnal, hugely emotnal, ” Kopay, 79, said of what he’s expectg Monday night as he ss at his home Los Angel watchg Nassib take the field for the Las Vegas Rairs as the first openly gay player NFL history on an active roster.

Kopay has waed a long time to see an openly gay player actn, havg end his ne-year NFL reer 1972 and then g out as gay 1975.

In all, there have been 16 gay or bi players NFL history, and 10 have played a regular season game.

WHY CARL NASSIB IS THE RIGHT PERSON TO BE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER

At some pot Monday night, Nassib will bee the first to do wh the entire world knowg he’s gay. Jeff Rohrer, a former Dallas Cowboys lebacker who me out as gay 2018, also reflected on the impact of this moment. “Carl’s first game the NFL as an openly gay man is a landmark for the league, ” Rohrer said.

“Although this story is historil and important to all of the LBGTQ muny … I agree wh Carl that the bt days are still to e when a human beg beg gay no matter what they do... What spir Rohrer is that those opposed to someone gay playg openly the NFL are part of a shrkg base that is growg ever smaller at a fast pace. “Me g out changed a lot of mds on gay acceptance.

RAIRS DE CARL NASSIB BE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER

“He’s done so much for gay muny.

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I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay.

CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS IS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY

Player to publicly clare that he is gay. “I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt.

I actually hope that like one day vios like this and the whole g-out procs are jt not necsary, but until then I’m gog to do my bt and my part to cultivate a culture that’s acceptg, that’s passnate, ” before addg that he would donate $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, a nonprof group that foc on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth. L., and mak him the first openly gay active player the league’s 101-year history.

“Sports are, many ways, one of the last bastns of a place where homophobia n thrive, ” said Cathy Renna, a spokwoman for the Natnal L. ”Michael Sam, an all-Amerin fensive leman at Missouri, had been viewed as the most likely to acquire that distctn when he announced he is gay before he beg chosen by the Rams the seventh round of the 2014 N.