Gay Jewish Romance | My Jewish Learng

Contents:

• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• THERE'S NOW A JEWISH DATG APP THAT MATCH GAY MEN WH LBIAN WOMEN
• GAY JEWISH ROMANCE

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

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. And sce, at the time, he’d temporarily taken over as Superman while his father was off-world, generated headl about Superman beg gay.

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"A Hod survey 2014 timated that up to two-thirds of gay ultra-Orthodox men Israel still marry women.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

It helps shield them om homophobia and also provis their fai wh all the benefs given to parents the state officially regniz as "relig Jews.

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THERE'S NOW A JEWISH DATG APP THAT MATCH GAY MEN WH LBIAN WOMEN

Shanghai's biggt gay datg se,, even started s own marriage market 2010 bee of the high mand for the "sham marriag, " promptg the lnch of Che apps like Queers and iHomo to help LGBTQ Che people fd heterosexual marriage the Uned Stat, "sham marriag" are prevalent relig muni, though there's no reliable data to suggt how mon they are. Author Rick Clemons was married to a woman for 13 years before he me out as gay.

Meanwhile Israel, Yosef believ helpg gay men marry women is a step backwards, stallg progrs for both the dividual and the muny at-large. She isn’t a gay man.

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GAY JEWISH ROMANCE

” Though his fay to accept his relatnship, their journey to do so echo the journey that many Orthodox muni have found themselv Ben Shl talks about her book, she talks about how inti tersect; Gay, Jewish, Deaf (Avi works as a sign language terpreter and has af iends and fay), old, young.