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- A MIRACLE CONNECTICUT SUN EBACK WOULD HELP GAY ACH CURT MILLER MAKE HISTORY
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- GAY WNBA ACH CURT MILLER OPENS UP ABOUT BUBBLE LIFE: ‘IT FEELS LIKE GROUNDHOG DAY’
- CURT MILLER EMBRAC BEG WNBA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE HEAD ACH
- CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
- THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
A MIRACLE CONNECTICUT SUN EBACK WOULD HELP GAY ACH CURT MILLER MAKE HISTORY
Down two gam to none, Miller still has an opportuny to bee the first out gay male ach to w a pro sports champnship. * wnba gay coach *
Currently down two gam to none, if the Sun were to pull off a miracle eback to feat the Las Vegas Ac, Miller would pull off an equally legendary feat: the first champnship for a publicly out gay male head ach any major sport anywhere the world. Miller already broke through one barrier when he was named Sun Head Coach, beg the first publicly out gay man to ach a profsnal team North Ameri.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * wnba gay coach *
Wh a tle hand, Miller would prove to the entire sports world that a gay head ach is every b as pable of ung and leadg a champnship roster as his straight unterparts. And he would make a ltle b easier for other gay prospective ach to follow his footsteps and fd jobs themselv.
In fact, a good argument n be ma that Miller has already monstrated that a gay ach has what tak by takg the Sun to the Fals twice four years.
Miller himself knows the importance of visibily for other gay men lookg to ach profsnal sports. “One of the thgs that ma sry for me to be out was I didn’t see that gay male succsful ach, ” he explaed to Outsports’ Alex Reimer on The Sports Kiki podst. And when anyone asks, “Yeah but n a gay head ach really lead a pro sports team, ” all you’ll have to do is show them his picture.
GAY WNBA ACH CURT MILLER OPENS UP ABOUT BUBBLE LIFE: ‘IT FEELS LIKE GROUNDHOG DAY’
Los Angel Sparks ach Curt Miller shar his story as the only openly gay male head ach women's profsnal basketball. * wnba gay coach *
One of the thgs that ma sry for me to be out was I didn’t see that gay male succsful ach.
“Sometim ’s tratg when articl are wrten out there about how’s there’s no (openly gay) ach the NBA right now, there’s no major ach Divisn 1 men’s basketball.
CURT MILLER EMBRAC BEG WNBA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE HEAD ACH
The Connecticut Sun have the most out LGBTQ players the WNBA, and an out gay head ach. * wnba gay coach *
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.
CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
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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. Last time we ught up wh Curt Miller, the openly gay head ach and general manager of the Connecticut Sun was feelg reflective. Maxen origally ntacted gay NFL player Carl Nassib Febary 2022, who then nnected Maxen wh Outsports.
THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY
Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer. * wnba gay coach *
Curt Miller embrac beg WNBA's only openly gay male head ach. Los Angel Sparks ach Curt Miller shar his story as the only openly gay male head ach women's profsnal basketball. Miller is the only out gay male head ach profsnal sports.
For Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird, who me out as gay publicly 2017, the WNBA's embrace of Pri was a part of her journey and also ccial to the league's future.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
"The WNBA began play June 1997, one year after the Defense of Marriage Act -- which ferally fed marriage as the unn of one man and one woman, and allowed stat to refe regnn for same-sex marriag that were legal other stat -- was signed to league tipped off about seven weeks after the famo "The Puppy Episo" of Ellen DeGener' s which her character out as gay, while DeGener herself was g out real life.
The episo was a ratgs succs, but the show was nceled a season later amid cricism that was "too gay, " and DeGener has said she had to rebuild her reer.
"I remember thkg, 'The same people that we're worried about bypassg bee of homophobia are gog to fd any reason to do that bee they're not supportive of women general. After the 2005 season, four-time WNBA champn Sheryl Swoop me out as gay. 1 draft pick 2006 who won four tl wh the Lynx before retirg ahead of the 2021 season, was another proment WNBA player who 2012 me out publicly as gay.