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Contents:

• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK OPENS UP ABOUT RUMORS HE WAS GAY
• STEELERS THROWBACK THURSDAY: GAY, OVER WOODSON, OWNS “PICK-6” RERD PTSBURGH
• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
• STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM
• HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
• MULTIPLE NBA NTENRS REPORTEDLY TERTED RUDY GAY
• EX-STEELERS CB WILLIAM GAY LANDS COACHG FELLOWSHIP WH COWBOYS
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• MIKE MCCARTHY SAYS GAY ATHLETE NOT AN ISSUE FOR PACKERS, MIKE TOML MUM
• WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB THAT BEAT THE BIGOTS BY TACKLG HOMOPHOBIA GETS S OWN FILM

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen revealed that he is gay on Thursday. Maxen is believed to be the first male ach a major pro sport to publicly e out as gay. Former Jaguar center Brandon Lr praised workg wh Maxen, who reached out to openly gay NFL player Carl Nassib 2022.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

In this story:Jacksonville JaguarsJaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen beme the first publicly-known male ach Amerin men’s profsnal sports to e out as gay Thursday.Maxen spoke wh Outsports to share his journey and why he’s choosg to e out publicly.“I don’t want to feel like I have to thk about anymore,” Maxen said. I want to be vol support of people livg how they want to live, but I also want to jt live and not feel fear about how people will react.”Maxen, who has been wh his partner Nick for over two years, exprsed that the ntued support om the people around him helped him feel fortable to share his news.“It wasn’t until recently—and wh the immense love and support of my fay, my iends, lleagu and peers, and the urage and sacrifice om my partner—that I realized I have the right and rponsibily to love and be loved, and that maybe sharg this will hopefully give someone else the strength to accept their own life and take ntrol of their own story,” Maxen said.Maxen also noted that he reached out to Carl Nassib, who is the only known gay NFL player the league right now, back Feb.

Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen told Outsports on Thursday that he is gay, makg him the first publicly out male ach major men’s pro sports the Uned Stat. Stewart, who is not gay, said he felt attacked by the cy of Ptsburgh for the mor, which he said the Steelers found was started by an dividual lol police officer.

FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK OPENS UP ABOUT RUMORS HE WAS GAY

In this week’s “Throwback Thursday, ” we turn our gaze to William Gay and Rod Woodson… and the plays that helped the former tie the latter terceptns for a regular season touchdown – “pick 6s” – and snag the top rerd the books.

Based jt on those ems mentned above, many Steelers fans would not put Gay the same tier of memorable Ptsburgh players….

Gay actually had two stts Ptsburgh.

STEELERS THROWBACK THURSDAY: GAY, OVER WOODSON, OWNS “PICK-6” RERD PTSBURGH

In 2012, Gay signed wh the Arizona Cardals and played unr fensive backs ach Dhea Townsend, a former teammate Ptsburgh.

GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

Steelers Throwback Thursday: Will Gay’s pick six ti Rod Woodson for Steelers rerd. Gay’s time the sert was short-lived, however, and the Steelers re-signed him 2013.

In 2014, Gay had arguably his bt reer season. Gay also rerd 12 pass fens, 69 bed tackl (58 solo), and a table for a loss. The followg season (2015), Gay tied Woodson’s standg regular season “pick 6” regular season rerd that statistic agast the Ccnati Bengals.

That “pick 6” gave Gay a bump up the Steelers rerd book over Woodson regular season play.

STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM

It wasn’t bee he had more – they both had five total – but Gay did ls seasons wh Ptsburgh. At that pot, Gay had jt seven total seasons wh Ptsburgh to Woodson’s ten (nsecutive). As stands, Gay (13) never surpassed Woodson’s total reer terceptns.

It took Gay 160 gam as a Steelers player to reach that mark to 134 gam for Woodson. In the end, neher Gay or Woodson earned a post-season terceptn for a touchdown their reers, cludg their time Ptsburgh. Gay ach fired om nservative Christian llege Pa.

(KDKA) — A gay ach was fired om a nservative Christian llege Beaver County.

HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON

Niamh LewisMar 1, 2021, 09:52 AM ETWhen Eammon Ashton-Atkson, an Atralian televisn reporter, cid to film his gby club as they went to the biannual Bgham Cup 2018, he uld never have imaged the posive reactn a documentary about would film Steelers is about London-based Kgs Cross Steelers, the world's first gay gby club and one of over 60 such sis world-wi. Although the stori the film are related to the stggl of g out, prsn, and a history of bullyg for beg gay, they're are told a way which wir dienc n empathise wh. "It's a story about a gay gby club, but 's also a story about human stggle, and people g sport and their sense of muny to help each other, which is universal, " Ashton-Atkson told ESPN.

"She's got a certifite for the hight achg level, and sce she left the Steelers she's been nsistently overlooked and not even shortlisted [for jobs] than men who are ls qualified and ls experienced than her, which is heart-breakg and disgtg, " Ashton-Atkson beg gay 2021 wtern society is often unremarkable today, you don't have to go back very far to fd trmatic stori.

"But, if 's easier to e out now, then why do we need gay gby clubs?

MULTIPLE NBA NTENRS REPORTEDLY TERTED RUDY GAY

"That's a thought that do go through your md, and while 's generally a posive there are still pockets of homophobia. Then, 2019, Atralia's Israel Fol spouted his famo anti-gay ments on Instagram, sayg "hell awas" gay opened the drawer and started the ed aga om scratch, and turned to the unnventnal documentary has bee. "Wh beg gay, you don't thk that I grew up sperately wantg to change my sexualy, like, wishg the gay away?

They were dubbed the tabloids as 'Harlequeens, ' there was homophobic ments, and a fear over ntractg HIV and AIDS. "For those of who grew up when wasn't ok to be gay, jt really before the ter was mon, there was huge stigma. You had Margaret Thatcher's Sectn 28 [a law brought the UK by a Conservative ernment om 1988-2003 to the "prohib the promotn of homosexualy"], misnceptns about the HIV vis, " Ashton-Atkson explas.

EX-STEELERS CB WILLIAM GAY LANDS COACHG FELLOWSHIP WH COWBOYS

"For those guys who were settg up that team 1995, they were real trailblazers bee they were gog out to different teams Essex week--week out smashg down stereotyp one game of gby at a time and om what I heard, the men Essex, they had never met an openly gay man before, let alone an openly gay sportsman. However, "There are still issu wh homophobia and homophobic language beg ed on the pch. "And one of the thgs we've been workg on wh Harlequs and Monash Universy is that a lot of that isn't actually homophobia, 's the culture of clubs, the challeng of languag not beg followed through.

The Los Angel Lakers are one of five teams said to be actively explorg the optn of signg Rudy Gay this, 36, is obvly no longer the 20 PPG srer that he was for most of his reer. Earlier this summer, Gay was acquired by the Oklahoma Cy Thunr and waived. Acrdg to Michael Stto of HoopsHype, five teams are currently the hunt for Gay’s servic.

“Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, ” he Lakers have been lked to a different potential pick-up recent days, but an obstacle uld rail the team’s plans. In that scenar, Gay uld prove to be a solid Plan not L.

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A., the Mavericks and Pelins are two teams that uld really e the sort of veteran learship Gay would brg to the Warrrs and Bulls, meanwhile, would likely provi the most seamls of possible transns for Gay terms of how he lik to play and the way the talent around him would work. Gay is obvly approachg the end of his reer. Which mak this cisn of where he will play next all the more Gay wants to w a champnship, he has to select the right landg spot for the 2023-24 NBA season.

Where will Gay ultimately wd up when ’s all said and done?

Former Ptsburgh Steelers rnerback William Gay has been accepted to the NFL’s Bill Walsh Diversy Coachg Fellowship and will be workg wh the Dallas Cowboys this, 38, had prevly ached fensive backs for FCS Missouri State 2020 before steppg away om achg to raise his son. “I didn’t get drafted this past weekend but his email fely got me feelg like ’s 2007, ” Gay wrote on was the Steelers’ fifth-round draft pick the 2007 NFL Draft and rose to bee a starter two stts wh the Steelers. The Steelers hired five Stephon Gilmore and Trevon Diggs, Gay will get to work wh one of the top rnerback groups the NFL wh the Cowboys.

MIKE MCCARTHY SAYS GAY ATHLETE NOT AN ISSUE FOR PACKERS, MIKE TOML MUM

For LGBT fans, one of them has shared his thoughts on gay NFL athlet while the other has been quiet on the issue. Shortly after Michael Sam me out publicly, head ach and general managers across the NFL were asked about havg a gay athlete on their team.

Yet Steelers ach Mike Toml hasn’t seemed as willg to talk about gay athlet. On one ocsn after Michael Sam me out, I had accs to Toml and asked him a general qutn about gay athlet. Toml did directly answer a qutn posed to him, at the NFL League meetg Orlando March of 2014, about addrsg gay slurs and racial slurs the locker room.

WORLD'S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB THAT BEAT THE BIGOTS BY TACKLG HOMOPHOBIA GETS S OWN FILM

Still, ’s odd that Toml never discsed Sam or havg a gay athlete on his team.

Of urse, if we missed Toml talkg about Sam or gay athlet, please do let know. What we n fd is Toml’s admiratn for Tony Dungy, the anti-gay relig zealot (and Sunday Night Football analyst) who has raised tens of thoands of dollars to fight agast same-sex marriage and who said he wouldn’t want Michael Sam on his team (though he would have no problem wh a wife-beater or a dog murrer). Why has he been fe wh talkg about his Christian beliefs and support for Hillary, but not his acceptance of a gay athlete?

World's first gay gby club that beat the bigots by tacklg homophobia gets s own film 25 years after beg found by Tory peer Lord HaywardKg's Cross Steelers were first set up 1995 at the world's first gay gby clubThe team was found by Tory Lord Hayward, who is also s chairmanA documentary lled 'Steelers' is set to screen at the Glasgow film ftival A team member - a TV news reporter – said he was spired to make the film after Atralian gby player Israel Fol said 2019 that ‘hell awas’ homosexuals Updated: 08:32 BST, 20 Febary 2021. When the world’s first gay gby club was set up 1995, Rob Hayward had a stock reply to wags who asked if his team played pk shirts. For a llectn of gay men we agreed remarkably quickly on our lours – midnight blue and emerald green!