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• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• 49ERS' KATIE SOWERS BE NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ACH, SEND WOMAN TO HOLD FULL-TIME POST
• WHY I ME OUT AS A GAY FOOTBALL ACH
• COLTON UNRWOOD'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH AND TEAMMAT REACT TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY: 'COULDN'T BE HAPPIER'
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• COLTON UNRWOOD'S FORMER LLEGE FOOTBALL ACH, TEAMMAT AFTER HE ME OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY: 'TOOK AMAZG URAGE'
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THIS GAY LLEGE ROWG ACH HAS HAD 9 ATHLET E OUT TO HIM
• CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY N.F.L. PLAYER, HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL EVERYMAN
• JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACH GIV EMOTNAL TED TALK ABOUT WHY HE HAD TO COME OUT – WATCH
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• RON BROWN, ANTI-GAY FOOTBALL COACH: I'D TOLERATE AN OPENLY GAY PLAYER, BUT WON'T SUPPORT LIFTYLE
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

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

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

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Multiple female ach the NFL — cludg 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, who beme the league’s first openly gay ach 2017 — have e out recent years. 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. 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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

In his 10 years wh the pany, Nick has led ESPN's verage of the Ners' 2019 Super Bowl n, Col Kaepernick's prott, the Rams makg Michael Sam the first openly gay player drafted to the NFL, Sam's subsequent pursu of a roster spot and the team's relotn and stadium saga. She's also the send full-time female assistant ach NFL jos Buffalo Bills qualy ntrol ach Kathryn Smh, who last year beme the league's first female full-time Tuday, Sowers, 31, ma more history, beg the NFL's first openly gay ach. "Football teach so many great life lsons to those who play or ach, " he says, "but one negative thg that do teach is that beg gay is not okay.

Colton Unrwood is ntug to receive support after he me out as gay on Wednday. I thk I speak for all of his former teammat sayg that we support him g [out as gay]. Unrwood me out as gay durg a s-down terview wh Rob Roberts that aired on Good Morng Ameri Wednday.

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

Durg the personal nversatn, tled "Colton Unrwood: In His Own Words, " he discsed how football had played a part him reprsg his sexualy, sayg that the word "gay was always affiliated wh a nnotatn of negativy.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

I've hated myself for a long time, and I'm gay. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U. Kev Maxen me out as gay an terview wh Outsports.

49ERS' KATIE SOWERS BE NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ACH, SEND WOMAN TO HOLD FULL-TIME POST

That weight lifted off Unrwood's shoulrs was the revelatn that he's gay – a tth Unrwood told the entire world on Wednday an emotnal terview on ABC's "Good Morng Ameri.

" GAY 'BACHELOR' SEASON WITH UNDERWOOD? I thk I speak for all of his former teammat sayg that we support him g (out as gay). " On GMA on Wednday, Unrwood scribed football beg his ma inty and that locker room homophobic language throughout his high school and llege reer played a part him stayg closeted.

WHY I ME OUT AS A GAY FOOTBALL ACH

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COLTON UNRWOOD'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH AND TEAMMAT REACT TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY: 'COULDN'T BE HAPPIER'

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JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay. Player to publicly clare that he is gay. “I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt.

COLTON UNRWOOD'S FORMER LLEGE FOOTBALL ACH, TEAMMAT AFTER HE ME OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY: 'TOOK AMAZG URAGE'

I actually hope that like one day vios like this and the whole g-out procs are jt not necsary, but until then I’m gog to do my bt and my part to cultivate a culture that’s acceptg, that’s passnate, ” before addg that he would donate $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, a nonprof group that foc on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth. L., and mak him the first openly gay active player the league’s 101-year history.

“Sports are, many ways, one of the last bastns of a place where homophobia n thrive, ” said Cathy Renna, a spokwoman for the Natnal L. ”Michael Sam, an all-Amerin fensive leman at Missouri, had been viewed as the most likely to acquire that distctn when he announced he is gay before he beg chosen by the Rams the seventh round of the 2014 N.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

The Dallas Cowboys signed Sam to their practice squad, but he never played a regular season Otero/Associated PrsSam’s draft stat was seen as a barometer of whether the climate of men’s pro sports was beg more acceptg of gay athlet, particularly bee Febary 2014 the N. Had jt bee the first of the four tradnal major Amerin men’s sports leagu to have an openly gay active player when Jason Colls joed the Sam left the N.

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

Players had prevly announced publicly that they were gay, but all after their playg reers were over. David Kopay beme the first pro football player to publicly e out as gay 1975, three years after he retired. He played for ne seasons wh the San Francis 49ers and four other teams the 1960s and 1970s, and has sce bee an activist and an ambassador for the Gay Gam, a quadrennial sportg Simmons was the send former player to announce that he was gay, dog so 1992 after his reer wh the Giants and Washgton Football Team had end.

THIS GAY LLEGE ROWG ACH HAS HAD 9 ATHLET E OUT TO HIM

Simmons also said he never would have clared himself gay durg the four seasons he played for the N. ”In recent years, the league has publicly supported Pri Month through promotnal efforts like changg official social media avatars to clu rabows and supportg the You Can Play Project, which provis rourc to enurage clivy youth sports, even as some players have ma rogatory statements about gay people wh ltle penalty or supported groups that oppose gay Wewerka for The New York TimIn 2013, Chris Culliver of the San Francis 49ers and Chris Clemons of the Seattle Seahawks ma offensive ments when asked about the prospect of havg a gay teammate.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY N.F.L. PLAYER, HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL EVERYMAN

“Got no gay people on the team, ” Culliver said.

JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY

”San Francis nng back Garrison Hearst apologized 2002 for g a slur and sayg he wouldn’t want a gay player as a teammate. His ment me after the former Mnota Vikgs player Esera Tuaolo publicly me out as gay that year after he had retired. Players like Brendon Ayanbajo, who played wh the Baltimore Ravens, fend same-sex marriage and gay rights and supported Sam at the time.

Player to Announce He’s Gay. But durg his time as a llege stunt, his inty as a gay man is what gave him the most difficulty.

GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACH GIV EMOTNAL TED TALK ABOUT WHY HE HAD TO COME OUT – WATCH

When Malik was home om break as a hman, his parents found pictur of him onle wh other gay people.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

But I end up kd of dog the plete oppose, and wound up jt beg more gay than ever.

The awkward dance ntued until this quarante perd, when Malik vised his parents, and spoke wh his mother and nt about beg gay.

RON BROWN, ANTI-GAY FOOTBALL COACH: I'D TOLERATE AN OPENLY GAY PLAYER, BUT WON'T SUPPORT LIFTYLE

One of the biggt issu Malik has faced as a ach me when one of his assistants, who was also his age, started g gay slurs at practice and around LGBTQ team members. “I didn’t have a gay lear to look up to.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

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