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

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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.

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THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

A Colorado 9-year-old end his own life Thursday, shortly after g out as gay and beg bullied at school, acrdg to his mother, Leia Pierce. * bullying story gay *

His mother said he recently me out as gay and was bullied at school.

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He had recently e out as gay to his mother, who believ that bullyg was a factor his ath, she told HLN’s Mike Galanos on Tuday. “The same kids who picked on him last year were even meaner to him once he me out and said he was gay, ” said Leia Pierce, Jamel Myl’ mother. In April 2013, Joe Bell left his home La Gran, a small town the northeast rner of Oregon, to walk across the untry honor of his 15-year-old son, Jad, who had died Febary a few weeks after attemptg and his wife, Lola Lathrop, told lol and natnal news outlets at the time that Jad was bullied for beg gay, both onle and at school.

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

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He was the only out gay stunt at La Gran High School.

In addn to beg the only out gay stunt at his school, he was also the only boy on the cheerleadg squad, and Bell told Salon 2013 that he was bullied for said he uld relate to Jad and his story, bee he was also bullied growg up Texas. 19, 2010, Seth Walsh, a gay 13-year-old livg Southern California, died by suici after beg bullied. Three days later, Tyler Clementi, a gay stunt at Rutgers Universy-New Bnswick, killed himself after beg rerd on a webm kissg another man.

Young lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr kids are at an creased risk of bullyg. I grew up gay and Jewish Massachetts.

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I may have been dismissed as "the gay kid" by some, but I realize, pecially now, jt how fortunate I was to have the high school experience that I did. " This other stunt happened to be the football quarterback, a guy who I'd always thought was super hot, timidatg, and likely perturbed by the fact that I was gay.

They lled John "Gay Boy" and me "Gay Kid.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Even on the last day I attend that youth program, I rell the youth pastor givg a special sermon on "Why gays go to hell. I was g to terms wh my sexualy, and I was terrified of people knowg I was gay. I me out as gay my senr year of high school.

And om that spac stronghold, I plotted how to beat the homophobia on mp. And eventually, we lnched a mpaign lled Gay?

Gay bullyg and gay bashg are actns that hurt all. A rash of gay suicis 2011 prov how adly gay bullyg n be.

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Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength ach, out as gay.

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