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Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• SEX PARTI, DGS AND GAY ESRTS AT THE POPE'S RINCE: UNRVER THE VATIN
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• INSPIRATNAL GAY ATRALIAN BOBSLEIGH STAR SIMON DUNN AD AT 35
• LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
• GAY GBY PLAYER TEXAS SHAR HIS PRI VIO TO SPIRE OTHERS TO LOVE THEMSELV
• GAY PRO GBY PLAYER NICK MCCARTHY OUT IRELAND TO WISPREAD ACCEPTANCE
• GAY PRO GBY PLAYER SPIRED TO E OUT BY LOVE OF HIS BOYIEND
• TACKLG HOMOPHOBIC ATTUS: THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO PLAY FOR GAY GBY CLUBS

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

Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay. Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U.

Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player.

“I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio. I’d arrived here two hours earlier orr to terview Martel about his new book, “In the Closet of the Vatin: Power, Homosexualy, Hypocrisy” (Bloomsbury, translated by Shn Whi).

SEX PARTI, DGS AND GAY ESRTS AT THE POPE'S RINCE: UNRVER THE VATIN

They told him about an extensive system of gay relatnships that they mataed wh junr clerics and senr figur alike the Vatin.

In Martel’s opn, the direct rponsibily li wh none other than the veiled and reprsed homosexualy of the clergy, which forc them to live a chronic lie. The gist of what Martel says is that there is a very high proportn of closeted gays among the Church’s learship who nnot unr any circumstanc adm their sexual proclivy. On the ntrary: They ny self-fense, protect each another’s sexual licentns, llaborate wh reactnary regim around the world, persecute homosexuals and csantly preach agast what’s nsired sexual permissivens – cludg total rejectn of the e of ntraceptiv and vigoro antagonism to abortn.

Martel: “On the face of , we all know, or at least n njecture, that the Catholic Church, and particular those the senr posns of s hierarchy, is a paradise for gays, for the simple reason that prits are mand to be chaste and are forbidn to take wiv. “I intify the e of the tastrophe the sexual-liberatn revolutn, which ma the Church even more homosexual and at the same time even more homophobic and even more nial of s own naked tth. “In the Closet of the Vatin” is actually a ntuatn, perhaps at a more sophistited level both terms of tail and style wrg, of his first book, “The Pk and the Black, Homosexuals France Sce 1968, ” which ed a storm on s publitn France 1996.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

In Martel als wh the rise of the gay liberatn movement the Wt and acc the LGBT muny France of beg nial of the AIDS epimic of the 1980s.

The gay hangouts Paris were highly profable bs at the time; moreover, was nvenient for people to seize on the foolish ia that AIDS was a lie beg spread by Amerin nservativ. Thoughts I already had were nfirmed when I read “The Pk and the Black, ” and were subsequently clud my 1999 Hebrew-language novel “Ziffer and His Kd”: namely, that gays are not more “sensive” or more “affable” or more “peace lovg” or more “art lovg” or more “nattily drsed” than others.

” He’d e to Tel Aviv as a eelance journalist orr to wre a seri of articl about the life of gays Israel. Afterward Martel learned that Louis was gay and also that he died of AIDS. After all, he’s tryg wh all his might to eradite pedophilia among prits and to expunge as much as possible the hypocrisy that has bee graed among the clergy, particularly regard to homosexualy.

INSPIRATNAL GAY ATRALIAN BOBSLEIGH STAR SIMON DUNN AD AT 35

Cred: Gieppe Lami/APMartel: “When Ratzger grasped that Europe was no longer buyg the Church’s nservative and homophobic views, and that the enlightened Wt as a whole was movg toward permtg gay marriag, he ma a mistake and beiend the worst of the dictatorships, cludg nservative Mlim untri that persecute gays. Behd them, si the Vatin, he says, a Sodom existed amid activi “cludg chemsex parti [gay sex and hard dgs] that took place wh the papal rince self.

Backed by ttimoni of high-level figur the Vatin who acpanied the pope on the journey, and offerg a vivid, ncrete scriptn, the chapter ptur the spair that seized the pope when he grasped the sle of the homosexual prostutn and the pedophilia wh the ranks of the Church there.

LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT

He hts – at first, gently – at the possibily that the tormented nscience of the pope Joseph Ratzger the homosexual realm were also part of a “personal drama.

In the face of the sexual revolutn, the 1960s, this pope toughened the Church’s stance: agast the pill, agast masturbatn, agast homosexualy.

Outwardly, all four are totally homophobic, and they also somehow arrange not to pay wh their own money for the expensive sexual servic – about 2, 000 ros per eveng. Nathanael is not gay and also not what’s known as gay-iendly. In my timatn, 75 percent of those who attend the semari are gay.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

The Church’s opposn to masturbatn beme an idée fixe, utterly sane, wh the rult that those who masturbate necsarily live a kd of ‘closet’ wh a closet – a kd of doubly locked homosexual inty.

And he learned that Sodom wasn’t stroyed bee s habants were gay; that’s what the Church teach, but not what the Bible says. ” Bee, jt as the origal Sodom, the prime s was not homosexualy but a general rptn of moral standards that uld not be remedied other than by the place beg stroyed down to s very foundatns – so, too, perhaps, his outlook on the Vatin: a place rife wh homosexual activy but where homosexualy self is not the re of the problem.

That problem, rather, is the general stctn of moral virtu, of which homosexualy is jt one element, although ’s not clear whether ’s the e or the oute of the suatn. Unlike the fate of the biblil Sodom, Martel fore, wh appropriate utn, the possibily of repair unr the le of the prent pope, Francis, who for the first time has refed to surrenr to the Church’s tradnal homophobic approach.

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

Instead of rebg gays, he uttered the very nsolg rhetoril qutn, “Who am I to judge you? Atralia’s first openly gay bobsledr has sudnly died aged 35 “after a rough year of personal loss” Dunn, who also played gby for the gay and clive Sydney Convicts team, spired the LGBTI muny wh his sportg feats. Tragilly he was found ad Surry Hills, Sydney, on Saturday, his agent and the police, who was om Wollongong, moved to Canada to further his bobsleigh reer and beme the first gay man to reprent a untry at the eventually retired, but ma a eback 2021 an attempt to qualify for the 2022 Wter a bicep jury led him out of the terviewed Dunn 2020 while he was an ambassador for GiveOUTDay, a fundraisg event for LGBTI said at the time he was asked by a fellow gby player if he was “really gay” bee he was tacklg so hard.

But I see remarks like that as a chance to te people – and flatten a few people the procs, ” he told He had recently posted on Instagram about breakg up wh Felix his partner of five years, sayg had been a “rough year” met his partner London when he was playg for another gay gby team, the Kgs Cross Steelers.

”Dunn was an advote for the LGBTI muny and took on Israel Fol over his ntroversial claim that all gay people would go to hell. “There is still homophobia sport, ” he told Sky News at the time. So I posted thkg ’s a nice photo, I uld e my profile that there are gay athlet out there.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

”Dunn began playg gby when he was 17 Wollongong but told he stopped bee of the homophobia the sport. However, some prejudice n e om wh the gay muny, he said. Dunn was appalled when 2019 a meme began dog the rounds that ed him as an example of a “normal gay” who “don’t force upon you the fact they’re gay”.

HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON

“Simon reprented all, he always said ‘I am not the spokman, I am jt a gay whe male tellg you about my experienc, and experienc om those wh whom I listened and learnt’. The Lester scm-half Nick McCarthy has e out as gay, and thanked ach Leo Cullen and Stuart Lanster for their “unbelievable” support.

GAY GBY PLAYER TEXAS SHAR HIS PRI VIO TO SPIRE OTHERS TO LOVE THEMSELV

I need to accept beg gay myself before I uld addrs wh others. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho/ShutterstockFellow Lester player Dunne revealed his bisexualy last year, around the same time Nassib announced he was gay and a few months before Atralian Cavallo ma headl across the world by sharg his news. Last month, Blackpool’s Jake Daniels beme the first UK-based male footballer to e out as gay sce 1990.

-- 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 2021. A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments.

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "We are also actually gay furri, I've seen untls people doubt that aspect of our group. "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!

GAY PRO GBY PLAYER NICK MCCARTHY OUT IRELAND TO WISPREAD ACCEPTANCE

Niamh LewisMar 1, 2021, 09:52 AM ETWhen Eammon Ashton-Atkson, an Atralian televisn reporter, cid to film his gby club as they went to the biannual Bgham Cup 2018, he uld never have imaged the posive reactn a documentary about would film Steelers is about London-based Kgs Cross Steelers, the world's first gay gby club and one of over 60 such sis world-wi.

Although the stori the film are related to the stggl of g out, prsn, and a history of bullyg for beg gay, they're are told a way which wir dienc n empathise wh.

"It's a story about a gay gby club, but 's also a story about human stggle, and people g sport and their sense of muny to help each other, which is universal, " Ashton-Atkson told ESPN. "She's got a certifite for the hight achg level, and sce she left the Steelers she's been nsistently overlooked and not even shortlisted [for jobs] than men who are ls qualified and ls experienced than her, which is heart-breakg and disgtg, " Ashton-Atkson beg gay 2021 wtern society is often unremarkable today, you don't have to go back very far to fd trmatic stori. "But, if 's easier to e out now, then why do we need gay gby clubs?

GAY PRO GBY PLAYER SPIRED TO E OUT BY LOVE OF HIS BOYIEND

"That's a thought that do go through your md, and while 's generally a posive there are still pockets of homophobia. Then, 2019, Atralia's Israel Fol spouted his famo anti-gay ments on Instagram, sayg "hell awas" gay opened the drawer and started the ed aga om scratch, and turned to the unnventnal documentary has bee.

"Wh beg gay, you don't thk that I grew up sperately wantg to change my sexualy, like, wishg the gay away? They were dubbed the tabloids as 'Harlequeens, ' there was homophobic ments, and a fear over ntractg HIV and AIDS. "For those of who grew up when wasn't ok to be gay, jt really before the ter was mon, there was huge stigma.

You had Margaret Thatcher's Sectn 28 [a law brought the UK by a Conservative ernment om 1988-2003 to the "prohib the promotn of homosexualy"], misnceptns about the HIV vis, " Ashton-Atkson explas.

TACKLG HOMOPHOBIC ATTUS: THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO PLAY FOR GAY GBY CLUBS

"For those guys who were settg up that team 1995, they were real trailblazers bee they were gog out to different teams Essex week--week out smashg down stereotyp one game of gby at a time and om what I heard, the men Essex, they had never met an openly gay man before, let alone an openly gay sportsman. However, "There are still issu wh homophobia and homophobic language beg ed on the pch.

"And one of the thgs we've been workg on wh Harlequs and Monash Universy is that a lot of that isn't actually homophobia, 's the culture of clubs, the challeng of languag not beg followed through.

WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh relign.Shelly Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.