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

Contents:

• MANLY SEA EAGL ACH APOLOGIS FOR HANDLG OF GAY PRI JERSEYS AS SEVEN REFE TO PLAY
• 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
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAYT PLAC IN NEW JERSEY FOR 2020

MANLY SEA EAGL ACH APOLOGIS FOR HANDLG OF GAY PRI JERSEYS AS SEVEN REFE TO PLAY

”Ian Roberts, the former Manly player who 1995 as a Sea Eagle beme the first NRL player to publicly e out as gay, said he was “heartbroken” at the suatn but later weled the club’s apology. He wasn’t the first gay man to play gby league – I’ll give the tip – he was the first to have urage to e out and pave the way for others to do so.

Manly Sea Eagl ach D Hasler has apologised over the club's handlg of the cln of rabow lours on the club jersey, sayg was a "signifint mistake" pots:Seven players will boytt Thursday's game over the gay pri shirtHasler says the club's executn of the iative was "poor"Manly will face the Roosters on Thursday wh a greatly dispted siSeven players are boyttg their NRL match on Thursday over their team's cisn to wear a gay pri jersey.

(AAP: Dan Himbrechts and Jam Gourley)Ian Roberts, a Manly legend and the first NRL player to e out openly as gay  1995, praised the "thenticy and scery" of Hasler and Cherry-Evans's said was "wonrful" the club would still wear the pri jersey this week and that he had been nsulted about the plan several weeks ago. " Ian Roberts was the first openly gay player the NRL. In 1995, Ian Roberts beme the first gby league player to e out as gay.

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

As an olr gay man, this isn’t unfaiar. "It has been reported the players ncerned won't be attendg the match for fear of vlent NRL's cln policy, perhaps more than any other sport, lists the many aspects and labels that n divi muni:"The NRL is mted to beg an clive anisatn that is open to all members of the Atralian muny regardls of age, race, relign, lour, scent, natnaly, ethnic orig, genr, sexualy, maral stat, stat as a parent, disabily or HIV/AIDS stat or other attribut that n lead to people feelg exclud or isolated" league is the sport, and Manly is the club, where Atralia's first profsnal male footballer me out as a gay man back 1995. Ian Roberts was the first openly gay player the NRL when he me out 1995.

MELBOURNE, July 28 (Rters) - Manly Sea Eagl players who boytted Thursday's match agast Sydney Roosters rather than play a pri jersey have agreed to wear the shirt om next season as long as they are nsulted the procs, owner and chairman Stt Penn told Atralian players - Josh Aloiai, Jason Saab, Christian Tuipulotu, Josh Schter, Hmole Olak'atu, Tolut Koula and Toafofoa Sipley - stood down om the Natnal Rugby League match rather than wear the jersey, which has rabow bands replacg the team's whe strip, symbolisg cisn to boytt, which Manly ach D Hasler said was taken on "relig and cultural" grounds, drew cricism om LGBTQ groups and the club's first openly gay player Ian said the players' ma issue was not the jersey self but the lack of nsultatn regardg their stance. "They add that police had received no formal reports of threats ma toward players, most of whom are Polynian Christians, have been brand bigots and homophobic on social media. Not a peep of prott about welg gay people to gby league – that go too far.

No man is beg pelled to n around wh the words “I like gay sex” on his is simply a msage that everyone is wele gby rejectg , the players are treatg those youngsters wh srn.

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

They should not face sanctn or refal to wear a jersey sign imposed on them by their club, while disappotg, is distct om what Fol did, gog out of his way to post putrid, nontatnal msag to gay people. “WARNING homosexuals, HELL AWAITS YOU, ” for example. 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. 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.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

LGBTQIA+ reprentatn men's sportAlthough roughly one 25 Atralians intify as part of the LGBTQIA+ muny, there are currently no openly gay male players the NRL, a group that totals more than 500 people across 17 is not unique to gby league: Atralia's top five domtic men's petns – the AFL, NRL, Big Bash, A-League Men and NBL – jt one active player, Josh Cavallo of Alai Uned, is openly trend extends to men's sports leagu elsewhere the world, wh only a handful of current athlet such as Carl Nassib of the Las Vegas Rairs and Le Prokop of the Nashville Predators open about their sexuali. They stem om cultur of hyper-masculy sport, the normalisatn of genr rol, the equent e of homophobic and sexist language as part of locker-room banter and abe, and the relatnship between sport, power, and vlence; thgs that affect all levels of the pyramid and rult a signifint drop-out rate of LGBTQIA+ men and boys om arth of reprentatn explas why former Manly player Ian Roberts – the first and currently only male NRL player to e out durg their reer – has been the loust LGBTQIA+ voice this past week, spe the fact he retired more than two s NRL have bee more active the LGBTQIA+ space recent years, cludg enterg a float to Mardi Gras, beg a participant the Pri In Sport Inx, updatg their Incln Framework to reflect var sexuali and genr inti, and offerg tn ssns for ele and muny players around batg homophobia.

Incln starts om whAt the heart of the problem is the disnnect between public statements of cln and the work that is done behd the scen to make cln part of an anisatn's everyday Erik Denison, the head rearcher of the Sport Incln Project at Monash Universy and lead thor of Out On The Fields, the first and largt ternatnal study on homophobia sports, the first warng-sign that Manly was foced more on optics than on genue cultural change was that the club had not nsulted s own players the lead-up to the release.

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

"That's how we undo problems around homophobia, sexism, racism, and all kds of difference.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

"Pri gam were vented 20 years ago to raise awarens of homophobic discrimatn sport that is harmful or exclnary, " Dr Denison said. Denison's own work has found clubs that hold Pri gam see a noticeable rctn homophobic language – so long as the game is acpanied by genue, player-led dialogue amongst participants – bee they dispt eper cultur that normalise discrimatory attus and behavurs wh sport.

"There's such strong evince that boys and men who e homophobic and sexist language and badgerg and are immersed sexist cultur are six tim [more likely] to rape a woman three years later, " Denison said. So when you ll someone a 'fag' or a 'poof', that has nothg to do wh the person beg gay: has to do wh them beg a failed man and not livg up to the standards of masculy. "Two separate studi found that clubs that hold pri gam e about 50 per cent ls homophobic language and around 30 per cent ls sexist language than those that don't.

"But the biggt lson that sport n take om the Manly saga is that celebratg cln n only occur after the difficult, time-nsumg, and rource-heavy work behd the scen that engag wh the very same people who mata cultur, stctur, and norms that are exclnary and unsafe for margalised don't jt volve one-off iativ, but ongog nversatns amongst all people (pecially men)  sport that unpacks and criqu the var tersectg cultural forc like masculy, genr rol, homophobia, and vlence that n manift discrimatn towards mory groups everyday while the club's tentns were admirable, the way Manly went about cln – g as an exercise optics and marketg stead of a genue sire to change the sport's culture – ultimately did more harm than nnot simply slap a rabow on a jersey and expect cln to follow.

GAYT PLAC IN NEW JERSEY FOR 2020

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. -- 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 '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. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U. While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U. When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.