JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- MEET DR. JSE EHRENFELD: A JEWISH VETERAN, AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT OF THE AMA
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
- BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?
MEET DR. JSE EHRENFELD: A JEWISH VETERAN, AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT OF THE AMA
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JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
What I know is that, absorbg the news, I was uncharacteristilly at a loss for words for a while, didn't know what to wre, and, like many Dish rears, there are tears my let me simply say: I thk of all the gay kids out there who now know they have their print on their si. I thk of the centuri and s which gay people found impossible to believe that marriage and cln their own fai was possible for them, so cshed were they by the weight of social and relig prsure.
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BARACK OBAMA: ‘THE FIRST GAY PRINT’?
"And now, there’s Barack Obama, dubbed “the first gay print” by Newsweek over the weekendThe acpanyg say was penned by The Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan, who wr that " four years Obama went om beg JFK on civil rights to beg LBJ: om givg upliftg speech to actg ways to make the spirg words a realy. "Sullivan, who is gay, scrib Obama’s “evolutn” on gay rights as the latt example of Obama “leadg om behd and playg the long game.
”Sullivan also draws a parison between the gay experience and Obama’s own search for racial inty:“Barack Obama had to e out of a different closet.
He had to disver his black inty and then rencile wh his whe fay, jt as gays disver their homosexual inty and then have to rencile wh their heterosexual fay. The Ameri he grew up had no space for a boy like him: black yet enveloped by lovg whens, tranged om a father he longed for (another mon gay experience), hurtlg between beg a Barry and a Barack, needg an Amerin racial inty as he grew olr but chafg also agast and over-embracg at tim. ”“This is the gay experience: the disvery adulthood of a muny not like your own home and the stggle to belong both plac, whout displacement, whout alienatn.