Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
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GAY
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KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
(By chance, his bird’s manner [sang] a songOf love, that ma her heart h and gay. )In recent years, however, this tradnal sense of gay has been driven out of the language by the newer sense meang homosexual.
Many believe this new sense of gay to be que recent, when fact dat at least to the 1920s and perhaps even earlier.
This early existence is as a slang and self-intifyg word among homosexuals, only enterg the mastream of English the late 1960s. So how did this word meang joyful e to refer to homosexualy? Perhaps the most monly touted one is that the morn e of gay om a clippg of gayt, a slang term among hobos and erants meang a boy or young man who acpani an olr, more experienced tramp, wh the implitn of sexual favors beg exchanged for protectn and stctn.