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Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN JT BEME THE FIRST MALE ACH MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY. HE SAID HE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO 'LIE' OR 'FEEL FEAR' ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE ANYMORE.
• THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy.

The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch. There are a ton of betiful men Hollywood, but Tsel Town’s gay ele are some of the most exceptnal bee there’s nothg sexier than owng and lovg who you are.

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

“We wouldn’t be where we are today whout all the gay artists that have e before and broken down so many barriers. Czech soccer player Jakub Jankto ma history as the first active ternatnal soccer player to publicly e out as gay. Colman Domgo has been openly gay for pretty much his whole life, and even met his hband of nearly a Rl Domgo on Craigslist.

Former NBA player Jason Colls beme “the first openly gay man to play one of the four major profsnal team sports, ” per Stacker. Hairstylist to the stars Chris Appleton, who reportedly jt got married to You star Las Gage, is proud to be gay, but he didn’t e out until later life.

“Some people know straight away, I didn’t and took me a mute to unrstand that and accept that and then e out, ” he told longtime iend and client Kim Kardashian for Gay Tim. My So Called Life alum Wilson Cz was the first openly gay actor to play an openly gay teen on primetime TV, makg history 1994. Talkg to Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen  2020, Dan said that his parents, fellow actor and star Eugene Levy and Deborah Dive, knew Dan was gay before he me out.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

” “We have to show up for each other, bee there’s still young trans, nonbary, gay, lbian, pan, bisexual people who are artists that are not gettg their opportuni, ” he told Out Magaze.

“For me personally, I’ve never really had a label for myself, ” the chef, who recently got engaged to longtime partner Kev Harrgton, told the Gay Tim. Former The Bachelor lead Colton Unrwood me out as gay on Good Morng Ameri  April 2021, a year after his 2020 breakup wh Cassie Randolph, whom he met on the show, and to whom he apologized this new terview for the ighteng behavr that led her to file a rtrag orr agast him after their spl. “I’ve ran om myself for a long time and I’ve hated myself for a long time, and I’m gay, ” Unrwood told GMA‘s Rob Roberts.

KEV MAXEN JT BEME THE FIRST MALE ACH MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY. HE SAID HE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO 'LIE' OR 'FEEL FEAR' ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE ANYMORE.

Former Arrow star Colton Hayn addrsed his sexualy 2016 after his rponse to a Tumblr post htg at a “gay past” went viral.

Atralian sger and actor Troye Sivan me out as gay to his fans 2013 via YouTube vio, and he’s been open about what ’s like navigatg fame as a young gay man ever sce. Acrdg to Playbill, Log Cab, “a tight-kn group of gays and lbians nsirs the new mastream through the ey of their transgenr iend.

Sir Ian McKellen has been openly gay and an activist sce the '80s, and he says g out ma him both a better person and a better actor.

THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS

“Don’t let anybody torture you for beg gay or for your sexualy, ” he said, “If you’re unhappy at home, leave. Though the 2019 mic vio for his song “Ease My Md” was the first time Ben Platt went public about beg gay, he said he wasn’t hidg before. Barry Manilow, the mic in behd “Mandy” and “Copabana, ” is out and proud to be gay, but wasn’t always like this.

“Worst se scenar, which is what happened to me, is havg people say, ‘Well, you like Michelle Branch, so you mt be gay.

Upon g out as gay 2012 Cooper was lled by The New York Tim “the most proment openly gay journalist on Amerin televisn. On g out Cooper said “The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I uldn’t be any more happy, fortable wh myself, and proud.