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A Connecticut native has bee the first openly gay NFL ach.

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GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay highschool *

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SOUTHBURY, CT (WFSB) – A Connecticut native has bee the first openly gay NFL Maxen, a ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, said he didn’t want to feel like he had to lie Maxen, associate strength ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, has publicly e out as gay. It was a simple team photo, but meant the world to gay high school football player.

15-year-old sophomore Jake Strer serly thought of qutg his Illois football team after beg outed, but he cid to embrace who he was and ma all the difference. Though I am on the team, ’s still a b awkward when you are a 15-year-old gay guy. There is absolutely a “gay by associatn” phobia high school and ’s a big unspoken thg.

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

I get and unrstand that wh matury the realizatn that gay isn’t ntag. I had never had an actual verbal nversatn wh any of my teammat about me beg gay. I am not the gay guy — I’m jt a football player.

CT NATIVE BREAKS BARRIER AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY NFL ACH

Their embrace of me was somethg I never expected after a year of anxiety and stggle of g to terms wh beg gay. I started hearg that people outsi of the team heard I was gay. It was someone I had tsted wh the rmatn that I was gay and knew I was not out.

IT WAS A SIMPLE TEAM PHOTO, BUT MEANT THE WORLD TO GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER

Two weeks after I me out to my parents, right after my football season had end, I went on Snapchat and posted the gay flag emoji on my story. I then said, “If you don’t get , I’m gay. I was bldsid when some kid who I really didn’t know my last perd class kept g LGBTQ slurs while knowg I was gay.

GAY TEEN ASKS STRAIGHT FOOTBALL TEAM PTA TO HOMEG

I didn’t know how to handle beg outed, how to handle g out to my fay or people at my school, and I fely didn’t know how to handle gay bashg. I was sayg was OK to drive someone om a sport bee they are gay. I was fearg the “gay by associatn” that is a livg breathg thg for teens, pecially guys.

I am proud to say I am gay.

Jake Strer, 15, is a sophomore at Metea Valley High School Aurora, Illois, and an offensive and fensive leman on his high school football team. Gay teen asks straight football pta to homeg.

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CT native breaks barrier as first openly-gay NFL ach .

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