Kev Maxen, assistant ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the first openly gay ach of a U.S. men’s profsnal league sport
Contents:
- IT ALL STARTED HERE: THE GAY LEGACY OF GQ
- ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
- GAY BOYS ADULT PHOTO MAGAZE
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
IT ALL STARTED HERE: THE GAY LEGACY OF GQ
How an unknown former mol turned photographer, a gay art director, and a llegiate water polo player om California ed the pag of GQ to refe the Amerin man—and changed forever the look of magaz, photography, and advertisg. * gay model magizine *
) It was also, not to put too fe a pot on , a much gayer era of GQ. Jack Haber, the magaze’s edor--chief om 1969 to 1983, was a gay man, as were his two extraordary art directors, Harry Coulianos, who served om 1971 to 1980, and Donald Sterz, who started out as one of Coulianos’s puti and eventually succeed him, nng the partment until late was not explicly a gay magaze, and s mandate, fact, was to te men of all persuasns about fashn and style. But the gay sensibily was unmistakable: the recurrence of the word gged headl; the prcient tert mimalist home r; the “Every Night Fever” dis-stomp pictorial om 1978, wh mols Capezs dancg a parkg lot illumated by the headlights of Lln the magaze self was no joke; GQ took s mandate serly.
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In this regard, GQ was way out ont, an archetypal example of the gay mory blazg a trail for the schlumpy mastream. “He had a theory that any hotel, there was a gay person [on staff], and that gay person was a nnectn to where to go the cy.
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There's nothg like a good gay photo. You n hardly turn around a gallery whout bumpg to a photo that was eher snapped by a queer person or one for a subject: om Calyn Jenner's portra by Annie Leibovz to the provotive works of Robert Mapplethorpe to the geni of Andy Warhol, Cathere Opie, and Pierre and Gill. Maybe there's somethg queer about the photograph, the transformatn om a subject to an object a flash. Or maybe all our years of takg selfi for Grdr prepared for the job. In any se, what mak the gay photo gay is the look levels at the viewer: We are ed to beg seen, but now we n look back. * gay model magizine *
So the first thg Harry did when he walked to a hotel was fd that gay person. In 1977, Michael Iv was a blond, tole-haired English major at Yale who rowed crew and stood six feet two, spendg the summer between his hman and sophomore years patg ho on Martha’s Veyard. ” Aquilon and Iv were soon gods the fashn firmament—hetero llege boys who’d stumbled to stardom as gay ins.
In this perd, GQ took on a social signifince that s creators uld not have anticipated—as a “d lifele to so many of the hterlands, ” as the Mississippiborn gay memoirist Kev Ssums puts .
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
“I’m almost posive the profsor was gay, ” Iv says.