Kev Maxen, Jaguars associate strength ach, out as gay a first for U.S.-based pro leagu

Contents:

• THE INEVABLE RISE OF THE GAY HOOTERS
• WHAT'S THE DEAL WH GAY HOOTERS? AN INVTIGATN
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

THE INEVABLE RISE OF THE GAY HOOTERS

Jsi Lehrman for The New York TimJune 21, 2018Jay and Ana Earle were havg a good time at Boxers, a gay sports bar on the Upper East Si, on a recent Wednday night. Ana agreed: “People say ’s gay Hooters, but ’s so much better than Hooters. ”Such is the unlikely succs of Boxers, which ma s but 2010 and has bee a mercial unirn: a gay sports bar cha.

Gym Sportsbar, which bills self as “Ameri’s most popular gay sports bar, ” has three lotns: Fort Lrdale, Los Angel and Chelsea. By sheer volume, Boxers is possibly the most popular gay bar the cy.

Jsi Lehrman for The New York TimIn the years sce Boxers opened, gay New Yorkers have won the right to marry and to serve openly the ary. The Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village flash pot of gay rights, was enshred as a Natnal Historil Landmark; an AIDS memorial was erected on Greenwich Avenue; Jason Colls played wh the Brooklyn Nets as the NBA’s first openly gay player; Laverne Cox went om warsg Unn Square to gracg the ver of Time as a transgenr in; and Rchie Torr, a cy uncilman, beme the Bronx’s first openly gay reprentative.

WHAT'S THE DEAL WH GAY HOOTERS? AN INVTIGATN

The cy’s gay pri para is now so mastream that last year was televised, amid a gay renaissance of broar, nonnformg sensibili — queer, transgenr and woke — Boxers has bet on old-school, meat-market machismo. It is equently scribed as “gay Hooters, ” not only for s Chippendal-style semu employe but also s menu, which feels plucked om a Midwtern airport: Cap’n Cnch French toast, chee i, toasted chee ravli, chicken tenrs, and maroni & chee seems to be payg off — $2 Ta Tudays and the Washgton Heights openg, Boxers expects to pass the $10 ln mark annual sal this year, said s owners, Bob Fluet and Rob Hynds.

”Acrdg to Daniel Nardic, the well-traveled gay night-life imprar who holds parti all over the cy, cludg at Boxers, the bar is not cuttg edge but necsary. “They’re kd of gay Hooters, but really they’re gay TGI Fridays. K., ’s a gay neighborhood, a gay muny board, ” Mr.

The day before signg the origal Boxers lease, they were also rebuffed, they said, for beg a gay bar.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

Historilly, gay bars have been si-street hiaways, archecturally closeted warrens of secrecy. “Most gay bars the cy are jt one thg. It’s leather daddi, ’s twks, ’s a ke n or this or that; Boxers is pretty much jt everyone, ” said Matt Cárnas, a brand ambassador for Chappy, a gay datg app that stag events at bars across the cy, cludg at Boxers.

”Israel Gutierrez, an ESPN mentator who fondly relled a vis to the downtown lotn 2015, the year he me out, agreed: “So many gay bars try too hard. Jsi Lehrman for The New York TimBoxers currently sponsors 15 of the cy’s 30-odd gay sports leagu, translatg to roughly 25 dividual teams sportg Boxers-brand jerseys, said Mr.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

“There’s a gay yacht club!

KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

”Gog agast the gra of a stylish, stat-nsc New York night life scene, Boxers has foced squarely on var unrserved bas: blue-llar, low-key, outer-borough and uptown gays. Boxers bills self as hostg the cy’s largt black- and Lato-foced gay parti, each at about 600 people weekly, and also has n Arab- and Asian-foced parti.

“It’s crazy to that, the 21st century, there’s still bigotry the gay muny of all plac, ” Mr. But, said Plo Flor, a gay Brazilian bodybuilr who tends bar at the Upper East Si outpost, “There is much more good than bad. “Gay Hooters?

“Gay TGI Fridays? Gay Coyote Ugly?

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

“It’s gay Cheers. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn MB, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Rival For Hooters. Openg May 2015 the Dallas gayborhood of Oak Lawn, the rtrant’s lotn unsubtly implied a target mographic of thirsty homosexuals; firsthand acunts affirm that the clientele was ed, fairly gay, but also featured a mix of genrs, straight women among them.

But Boxers f self as a gay sports bar — Tallywackers never sold self so precisely, and was spirually closer to a Hooters format than a bar. “Oglg men skimpy unrwear” maybe not the end goal of femism or gay rights, but there’s certaly an imbalance to be rrected: Ameri’s gays and girls should have that same opportuny afford to the Hooters crowd.

RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

Tallywackers is gog to make s but the cy's gayborhood, Oak Lawn. One man wrote, "After beg an openly gay GM for hooters for almost 8 years, I always said I should open a male versn of hooters sce beg the BFOQ [bona fi occupatnal qualifitn] bs is very 'legally sensive' and beg wh hooters so long ma me an expert that. A Twter handle like @GayHooters jumps out at you.

I don't remember how I first saw , but I remember the tweet that ught my eye: A photo of Will Mchamp makg a sweaty sturgeon face wh a glimmer his eye, and a ptn like "When your boy buys a round at @GayHooters. " It was followed by another joke—this one, I'm a ltle hazy on—that was probably a photo of Macho Man Randy Savage grimacg nstipated anger and a ptn like, "When the Benghazi wgs too hot at @GayHooters. "I scrolled through the timele, and saw more jok of the same format: A photo of a celebry exprsg some kd of emotn along wh a ptn about the eponymo @GayHooters, mold the template of meme-speak that mak a thoand Twter stars light up when someone tweets a photo of an explodg r wh the phrase "x rd.