Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength ach, out as gay

Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• LIVG SHADOWS: LIFE AS A GAY DAKAR
• GUI GAY DU SéNéGAL
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY SéNéGAL
• LIX POUR L GAY SENEGAL
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• GAY SENEGAL - FROM GAY CAPAL TO COUNTRY OF HOMOPHOBIA
• TERROR SWEEPS SENEGAL’S GAY MUNY AFTER A SERI OF ASSLTS
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• GAY LIFE SENEGAL
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• HIDG HOMOPHOBIA AS A GAY STUNT SENEGAL

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.

He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport.

McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay.

LIVG SHADOWS: LIFE AS A GAY DAKAR

”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry. As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok. ’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed.

He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac.

“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room.

GUI GAY DU SéNéGAL

Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.

Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done. The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY SéNéGAL

“Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.

LIX POUR L GAY SENEGAL

Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. When you are homosexual Senegal, you are not only nsired as a sub-man but also a crimal.

In this fifth episo of Euronews and Ainews’ first podst, Cry Like a Boy, Dakar-based journalist Marta Moreiras explor what means to be gay Senegal, where homosexual men are targeted wh the slur “Góor-jigéen” - a pejorative term which lerally means “men-women” the Wolof language, and is ed to beltle their masculy. A hor of angry stunts elbows their way to the hall of one of the faculti tryg to pture a man acced of beg gay.

In Senegal, gay men are lled "góor-jigéen", a pejorative term ed to beltle their masculy. Danielle Olavar: In Senegal, if you are openly gay, you n not only be sulted, rejected, and ostracised, but also hunted, beaten, and even arrted and imprisoned. His book ‘D Purs Homm’ (‘Pure Men’ English) explor a big taboo Senegale society: beg gay.

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

Junr: “Beg gay is very difficult bee you tend to hi, to change your behavur, bee people are much more radil and they are much meaner to , even mistreat them. Danielle Olavar: Lus Ramón Mendos om the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) explas how more than half of the untri sub-Saharan Ai have legislatn prohibg or reprsg homosexualy.

A few months ago, Senegal’s Print Macky Sall nfirmed that the crimalisatn of homosexualy is not among his short-term plans. Danielle Olavar: But is the nmnatn and rejectn of homosexualy actually part of tradnal Senegale culture? In the next episo, we will look at Senegal’s lonial past to track down the roots of homophobia.

Vo avez raison si vo vo d que le Sénégal n’t pas la statn touristique gay numéro un mon… Même en Aique, le Sénégal ne s’scr pas parmi l statns l pl LGBT-iendly. Cela ne vt toutefois pas dire que l voyagrs homosexuels ne déuvrent pas le Sénégal pour tant.

GAY SENEGAL - FROM GAY CAPAL TO COUNTRY OF HOMOPHOBIA

Pour en savoir un p pl sur le pays, déuvrez le pet gui gay du Sénégal offert en ligne par le Gay Voyagr. A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light’s disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. The mixture of vodka and soda water, long known rmally as “gay water” the LGBTQ muny, is the brachild of 30-year-old gay entreprenr Spencer Hodson.

He noted that the nctn aims “to stigmatize the word ‘gay’ by brgg reprentatn to spac that have not tradnally featured queer products, such as bars, liquor stor, grocery stor, rtrants, hotels and more. Hodson, who is fancg Gay Water wh his own money pl backg om fay and iends, his brightly lored ns are leang to their gayns stead of avoidg .

He told CNN that he worked wh a queer signer to base Gay Water’s red, purple, green and orange lor scheme on pop art and 1990s televisn shows om Nickeloon, a ble work for children. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. A statement on the Gay Water webse not that the word “gay” appears barely any products outsi of Pri Month each June.

TERROR SWEEPS SENEGAL’S GAY MUNY AFTER A SERI OF ASSLTS

In lonial tim, Senegal’s metropolis Dakar was famo for s open and tolerated homosexual prostutn market, and as late as the 1970s, as many as 17 percent of Senegale men admted havg had homosexual experienc.

Sce 1965, same-sex activy has been punishable by up to five years imprisonment, but only durg the last five years, Dakar’s former visible gay muny has had to go unrground, riskg punishment. Ined, homosexualy has been a visible and well-known part of Wolof tradns, and only moralist opns of the lonialists, later adopted by an creasgly domant Mlim clergy, led to the supprsn of this culture. (photo right, gay uple Baba and Baidy had to flee Senegal after a lol newspaper prted their photo).

” Dr Corre referred to the Wolofs’ appete for “morbid eroticism” his cril report; the olst known wrten rerds of homosexualy Senegal. Mr Gorer tertgly not that the openly gay men “do not suffer any way socially, though the Mohammedans refe them relig burial.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

“The elrs and fahful Mlims nmn men for this, ” Mr Crowr noted, th documentg a slowly growg tolerance towards homosexualy om the lol clergy. ” When he returned ne years later, “Dakar was gayer than ever” and nobody did have to shy about his homosexualy the cy.

And by 1958, he rells, homosexualy was not nfed to the French domated centre of Dakar, but to the nightlife the “native quarters” and shantytowns surroundg the pal. While many still ed the Wolof term gor-digen, several men now referred to themselv as “homosexuèl” French. A nnectn between the Wolof gor-digen tradn and the ternatnal notn of “homosexualy” – a much wir fn often excludg the optn of marryg someone of the oppose genr – was slowly beg tablished.

GAY LIFE SENEGAL

But still the mid-2000s, gay meetg pots were well known to Dakar habants and gay men relatively openly uld pick up equally oriented men terrass of the famo beach promena Corniche Out the centre at pla daylight. Anti-gay rhetoric the media and by policians agast dividuals believed to be gay or lbian sharply creased. In Febary 2008, publitn of photographs om a same-sex mment ceremony set off a wave of arrts and an anti-gay media enzy and sent dozens of gay men to exile.

In December 2008, police raid an HIV trag hosted by a lol AIDS anisatn spected of aidg gay men. In November 2009, Safatoul Amal, an anisatn charged wh the spirual protectn of the town of Touba, raid a man’s home and arrted him for formg a “work of homosexuals. The arrts were acpanied by sensatnal media verage, strong homophobic statements om relig and polil lears, and vlence — cludg physil attacks and the exhumatn and secratn of the bodi of ceased people spected of beg gay.

Together wh neighborg The Gambia, Senegal has turned to the centre of homophobia Wt Ai. Remend further readg about the history of homosexualy Ai: “Boy-wiv and Female Hbands” eded by Stephen O Murray & Will Rose, New York 1998. Every time Abdou's mother hears of a homophobic attack the streets of Senegal's pal Dakar, she locks him her bedroom.

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

The reports prompted an outpourg of support for Gueye back home wh social media luged wh homophobic mem. Days later, a mob hurlg homophobic slurs beat up an Amerin artist who was Dakar for an ternatnal ftival. "I tried several tim to say, 'Tomorrow, I'm not gog to be gay anymore, tomorrow I'm gog to try to fd a girliend, ' [but] I n't.

Abou cut ntact wh his gay iends to protect them and spends most of his time isolatn, trawlg social media for rmatn about Senegal's growg anti-gay movement.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

The gay 'lobby'Activists say anti-gay rhetoric has been ramped up sce a May 2021 monstratn the pal llg for gay sex -- currently punishable by up to five years prison –- to be ma a ser crime.

France, the former lonial power, has removed Senegal om s list of safe untri of orig bee of the risks gays face there. But many Mlim-majory Senegal believe homosexualy is a Wtern liftyle beg imposed on their society.

"I don't see how Senegal should change s posn to give more space to the homosexuals, " said Abdoulaye Guisse, a 28-year-old stunt, addg that LGBTQ people should rema "discreet". "If two homosexuals, holed up their home, engage their activi, that do not ncern -- but we really want to prerve Senegale public space, " he said, sistg his anisatn is peaceful and do not ndone mob vlence. Senegal is not the only sub-Saharan state wh laws agast gay sex -- some two dozen others have them as well.

HIDG HOMOPHOBIA AS A GAY STUNT SENEGAL

The 34-year-old, who was recently outed to his fay and forced to hidg outsi Dakar, said some homophob have his personal rmatn and he is worried they will publish .

"When I walk outsi, you n't tell I'm bisexual -- on the ntrary, you thk 's a homophobe walkg, " he said. Dakar has never had gay bars, LGBTQ muny members say, but there were prevly venu where they would meet and mgle alongsi straight people whout others knowg.

Gay activists claim policians are jumpg on the anti-gay bandwagon to rally support for parliamentary electns Sunday and a printial vote 2024.