In 1919, the first pro-gay movie was ma. A year later, was banned. - LGBTQ Natn

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY HISTORY – 1919: THE FIRST GAY MOVIE WAS MA OVER 100 YEARS AGO – “DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS” [VIO]
• HOW HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST OUT GAY STAR CHOSE LOVE OVER REER
• IN 1919, THE FIRST PRO-GAY MOVIE WAS MA. A YEAR LATER, WAS BANNED.
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

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. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to 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.

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

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GAY HISTORY – 1919: THE FIRST GAY MOVIE WAS MA OVER 100 YEARS AGO – “DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS” [VIO]

“You knew of urse he was a homosexual, ” a police officer says to the up-and-g star of the Brish legal scene, lawyer Melville Farr (Dirk Bogar). Farr isn’t surprised by the revelatn that Barrett is gay, fact, he tells the officer he spected as much. In tth, was an extremely groundbreakg moment cema history, and the first utterance of the word “homosexual” an English-language film.

Victim, directed by Basil Dearn and released the UK 1961, was ma at a time when havg homosexual characters or even mentng homosexualy at all, was agast the law.

In fact, homosexualy wasn’t even crimalized until 1967, six years after the film was released. Victim, a magnificently spenseful film, follows Farr as he tri to intify a vic blackmailer targetg homosexual men London. Farr is also gay, spe his marriage to his wife Lra (Sylvia Sims).

HOW HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST OUT GAY STAR CHOSE LOVE OVER REER

Bee of the Brish anti-buggery laws of the time, blackmail (which was also, and remas, illegal) was often ed to trap homosexual men. He’s already been to prison four tim simply for beg gay, and the fear of beg imprisoned another time is enough to kill him. The film ref to sweep homosexualy unr the g, and directly criciz the laws that ma their liv so credibly difficult, all while those very laws were still place.

IN 1919, THE FIRST PRO-GAY MOVIE WAS MA. A YEAR LATER, WAS BANNED.

For the average gay person, the very ia of beg blackmailed for somethg that’s no longer illegal is bizarre, but Victim terrifygly transports dienc back to a time where livg your thentic life was all but impossible, and uld only be done the darkt, most secretive margs of society. It would be easy for a film about homosexualy the early 60s to be full of hatred and nasts.

Of urse, an effort to reflect realy, there are people the film eply unfortable about gay people at bt, and outwardly vile at worst, but Victim is far more terted the reali the gay people face, and the way the laws disproportnately affect their liv.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

It is an credibly sympathetic movie that r eply for s gay characters, at a time when no other film would even acknowledge they exist. Though Bogar was never technilly out as a gay man, his sexual orientatn was a known secret Hollywood. As a gay man himself, don’t get riskier than playg a gay man who explicly talks about his homosexualy at a time when dog such was extremely taboo, and agast the law.

It’s a vastatg moment, full of such credible sadns that only a gay actor uld possibly achieve. There’s a long cematic history of sad gay films, which homosexual men seem pable of everythg but fdg genue happs.

Though the gay men Victim may not get to live the thentic liv they dream of, Dearn’s film is never terted stg judgment on s characters and giv them, and pecially Farr, a life beyond their sexual orientatn, somethg films ma many years later unr far ls rtrictive circumstanc often aren’t been able to do. A particularly damng review me om TIME Magaze, which stated “What seems at first an attack on extortn seems at last a yly sensatnal exploatn of homosexualy as a theme – and, what’s more offensive, an implic approval of homosexualy as a practice. Dpe the cricism, Bogar was sure to face for actg as an openly gay man the 1960s, his memoirs ’s clear that he ma the right cisn, sayg that starrg Victim was “the wist cisn I ever ma my cematic life.