Jags' Maxen is first male Amerin pro sports ach to e out as gay - ESPN

Contents:

• A GAY MICHIGAN COUPLE ARE FLIPPG HOM DETRO ON THEIR VERY OWN HGTV SHOW
• THE GAY DETROERS ARE ROCKG THE BLOCK YET ANOTHER HGTV REALY SHOW COMPETN
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• THE BLOCK’S DARREN PALMER FENDS STG OF ‘EDY GAY UPLE’

A GAY MICHIGAN COUPLE ARE FLIPPG HOM DETRO ON THEIR VERY OWN HGTV SHOW

"Keh actually has a lot of experienc the nstctn dtry and a lot of homophobia and not super great employment opportuni for people like , " Thomas said. But their happs has been a long time didn't e out as gay until his mid-thirti, by which pot he'd married and had three children. He says beg gay "wasn't an optn" for him growg up.

"I thought beg gay was wrong, " Mch, 56, tells TV went on to get married at age 22. '"But my wife knew somethg was wrong and [him beg gay] fally me out.

THE GAY DETROERS ARE ROCKG THE BLOCK YET ANOTHER HGTV REALY SHOW COMPETN

Meanwhile, Mark me out at 21 – he knew he was gay when he was about ne – and faced his own challeng. -- 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.

Jenks owned the Willows, a stic rort terg to gay men along the Rsian River sixty north of San Francis. Every other week, Jenks drove down to the Castro to pass out upons at the gay bars and rtrants, hopg to entice ctomers wh $5 or $10 disunts.

” Jenks told Burke about growg up Mormon ral Idaho, and a groundbreakg manifto he had wrten refutg the church’s ultranservative teachgs on homosexualy. “Both of were amazed at the tremendo difference our backgrounds and yet our strongly shared views of the gay liberatn thg and the very diverse rol each of were playg , ” Jenks relled. Jenks’s untry n sat on five wood acr overlookg the Rsian River near the town of Guerneville, a ral lumber muny that had bee fashnable wh gay vatners seekg an pe om the cy the late 1970s.

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

Burke enjoyed relaxg the hot tub and on the sunck at the Willows and partyg at a gay bar on Guerneville’s Ma Street lled Rabow Cattle Company.

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

The populary of the Willows and other hotels, bs, and bars terg to gay men om San Francis had created tensns the town of ten thoand. Some lol bs owners weled the flux of new ctomers and risg property valu, while other lols vlently risted their prence—roughg up gay men on the street outsi Rabow Cattle Company and settg fire to a stretch of gay bs on the block. After a lol newspaper ran a story about Burke’s prence Guerneville, some of the regulars at Pat’s Bar, an tablishment that tered to the same lols who had asslted gay men the past, exprsed an tert meetg him.

The guys were sports fans, and the ia that a former major leaguer was partyg jt down the block meant more to them than the fact Glenn was gay. Jenks hosted the gay players om San Francis at the Willows for a weekend of partyg, and then me time for the game at the ballfield at Berry’s Saw Mill. “He had an abily to attract both straights and gays.

THE BLOCK’S DARREN PALMER FENDS STG OF ‘EDY GAY UPLE’

The guys at Pat’s Bar were as taken wh him as anyone the gay world. Where prevly the Pat’s Bar crew acted “mean and unrhand” ways toward gay men the muny, the environment began to change after the summer of ’82, Jenks said. It was much more acceptable to be openly gay, even that ltle town.

But all of a sudn, lol gays started to e out of the closet. And straight guys opened up to the ia that maybe gays aren’t that bad after all. 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. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.