Jacksonville Jaguars Assistant Coach Kev Maxen Com Out as Gay

Contents:

• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
• COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT

Back the days of the Hays Co om the 1930s to the 1960s, movi pictg gay love terts were censored by studs. Even today, movi featurg gay sex or LGBTQ+ characters are typilly rated more strictly than movi wh straight characters. Look no further than Old Hollywood actor Rock Hudson, whose homosexualy remaed a tightly guard secret durg the height of his fame.

"I'm proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me, " Cook said.

However, the Tony and Emmy-nomated gay actor has also played Victor Strand on several seasons of "Fear the Walkg Dead, " and appeared films like "If Beale Street Could Talk, " "Selma, " and "Zola.

COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE

" He discsed g out as gay 2014, after enterg a civil partnership wh poser Mark Bradshaw, llg public reactns "surprisgly lovely. Ma history as the first openly gay player to play a Canadian Football League regular-season game, playg for the Montreal Alouett. Gay actor Matt Bomer won a Goln Globe for playg a closeted journalist the TV film adaptatn of Larry Kramer's AIDS epimic-foced play "The Normal Heart.

" He also beme the first openly gay Black man to w bt lead actor a drama at the Emmys for the role. The actor explaed how he felt that "livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg is simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead on the road to plete equaly. It wasn't until she began watchg sci-fi TV seri "The X-Fil" that the first openly gay woman star of "SNL" Kate McKnon said she realized she was attracted to women.

Helpg to change that is former NBA player Jason Colls, who beme the first openly gay man to play one of the four major profsnal team sports. "When we get to the pot where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live fear that he'll be shunned by teammat or outed by tabloids … then g out won't be such a big al, " Colls wrote, but ultimately nced that we're "not there yet.

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

" In 2013, he nfirmed that he is gay, though he hadn't exactly been hidg his LGBTQ+ stat—or his more than 20-year relatnship wh Raer Andreen, for that matter. After g out at a Prop 8 rally 2008, the edian claimed she was subsequently treated like a "unirn, " that most gay or bisexual Ain Amerins don't openly share their LGBTQ+ stat.

" Carver has sce been vol about Hollywood's tenncy to perpetuate negative LGBTQ+ stereotyp, as well as pigeonholg openly gay actors to playg specific typ of rol. Carver performed on Broadway "The Boys the Band, " which tails the gay experience 20th-century Ameri before the Stonewall Rts occurred. Bt known for playg Obi-Wan Kenobi the origal "Star Wars" trilogy, Sir Alec Guns kept his sexual orientatn—and his arrt for a homosexual act 1946—away om the public eye for the entirety of his adult life.

Actor Marlon Brando once told his bgrapher, "Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experienc and I am not ashamed.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

Acrdg to mic legend Qucy Jon, one of Marlon Brando's alleged homosexual trysts was wh edy legend Richard Pryor the 1970s. Long before directg movi like "Prec" or -creatg Fox's "Empire, " Lee Daniels was a young gay man g to terms wh his homosexualy while growg up Philalphia. Due to her liberal e of gay slurs on Twter and her lyrics, sger Azealia Banks faced accatns of homophobia 2015.

Hopg to quash the ntroversy, Banks me out as bisexual that same year, addg that nearly all of her iends are gay and that one of her siblgs is transgenr. That same month, he donated $1 ln to GLSEN (Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network), which works to create clive and safe environments schools. While his most notable role of the last few years put beg gay ont and center stage, actor Lee Pace was not always as forthg about his own sexualy.

(Reportedly, however, Pace ma headl 2012 when his "Hobb" -star, Ian McKellen, accintally scribed Pace as gay an terview. While he adms he was never outright srned for beg gay, there have been stanc where he felt was more of a hdrance than jt a fact that shouldn't matter.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

He is also a huge proponent of velopg more relatable characters for gay people the media. He told Variety that while watchg "Love, Simon, " a love story wh a gay protagonist, he realized, "Straight people go to the movi and lerally see themselv all the time.

Unlike many gay actors, Platt was one of the few who has more or ls always been out to the public. "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years, and all they said was 'we know, '" Schnapp wrote of his g-out story, addg, "I gus I'm more siar to will than I thought. "When I was younger I thought I was straight, bee I was more attracted to women, and I didn't know there were more optns bis gay and straight.

In a now-leted tweet that was screenshotted by celebry gossip and news se The Jasme Brand and posted to Instagram, the 45-year-old crooner, who is bt known for his early '90s classics like "Can We Talk" and "I'm Ready, " reportedly nfirmed that he is gay to a fan. "My mom keeps tellg me Luther Vandross, Teddy Penrgrass, and Tev Campbell were gay, " the fan's tweet read, to which Campbell simply quote-tweeted and said, "Tev is, " acpanied by the rabow flag and sunglass emojis.