Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. His announcement is a first for a male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league.
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- NFL SHAR PRI-THEMED LOGO, SAYS STANDS WH LGBTQ+ MUNY BY KELLY HAY PUBLISHED JUNE 3, 2021 UPDATED 1:43PM EQUY AND INCLN FOX 10 PHOENIX SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD THE HISTORY OF JUNE BEG PRI MONTH EVERY JUNE, THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AND ALLI CELEBRATE WHAT HAS BEE NEW YORK - THE NATNAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE EMBRACED THE START OF PRI MONTH THIS WEEK BY SHARG S FAMED LOGO RABOW LORS A SHOW OF "SUPPORT AND SOLIDARY" WH THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. "WE STAND WH LGBTQ+ PEOPLE THIS MONTH AND YEARLONG WH A MMENT TO OUR PLAYERS, OUR FANS AND OUR STAFF TO LIVE PROUDLY AND THENTILLY," THE NFL SAID WEDNDAY A POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA, ADDG "HAPPY PRI MONTH!" IN A PHOTO OF S PRI-THEMED NFL SHIELD, ALL 32 TEAMS’ LOGOS WERE ALSO DISPLAYED RABOW LORS. THE SAN FRANCIS 49ERS ANNOUNCED MONTH-LONG PLANS TO CELEBRATE PRI MONTH THROUGHOUT JUNE, CLUDG A GENRLS CLOTHG LE WHICH 100% OF THE PROCEEDS WILL BENEF LOL LGBTQ+ ANIZATNS. ON JUNE 22, THE TEAM WILL HOLD THE 2021 49ERS PRIDE LGBTQ+ ACTIVISM SPORTS PANEL FEATURG PROFSNAL ATHLET AND SPORTS PERSONALI LIKE KIMBERLY CHEXNAYR, FALLON FOX AND KURTIS GABRIEL. THE PANEL WILL DISCS THE NORMALIZATN OF LGBTQ+ ATHLET AND THEIR PERSONAL EXPERIENC AS OUT AND ALLIED PERSONS SPORTS, THE TEAM SAID. THE SEATTLE SEAHAWKS TEAMED UP WH FELLOW SPORTS TEAMS THE CY TO DRIVE SUPPORT FOR LOL LGBTQ+-OWNED SMALL BS AND GENR-CLIVE YOUTH SPORTS. "WE'RE PROUD TO PROMOTE ACCEPTANCE AND AWARENS," THE TEAM WROTE A POST. FORMER NFL PLAYER RYAN O’CALLAGHAN, WHO PLAYED WH THE NEW ENGLAND PATRTS AND KANSAS CY CHIEFS, ME OUT AS GAY A 2017 STORY PUBLISHED BY OUTSPORTS — A SPORTS NEWS SE FOCG ON LGBT ISSU AND PERSONALI. HE TOLD THE OUTLET THAT THE NFL’S SUPPORT OF PRI MONTH IS IMPORTANT WNG HEARTS AND MDS AMID SOME NEGATIVE MENTS ONLE. "THE RPONSE SHOWS PEOPLE’S LACK OF UNRSTANDG AND IGNORANCE," O’CALLAGHAN SAID. "I’M GLAD THE NFL DO . SMALL GTUR LIKE THAT ADD UP." O’CALLAGHAN HID HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN THROUGHOUT HIS FOOTBALL REER. HE TOLD THE OUTLET THAT HE HAD CID TO PLAY THE SPORT, CLUDG LLEGE AT THE UNIVERSY OF CALIFORNIA—BERKELEY, A LARGE PART TO HI HIS SEXUALY. RELATED: BIN PROCLAIMS JUNE AS "LGBTQ+ PRI MONTH," EXPOUNDG S CREATN AND HISTORY PRI MONTH, WHICH IS NOW CELEBRATED BY LGBTQ+ MUNI AND ALLI ALL OVER THE WORLD, STEMS OM THE TRAGEDY OF THE STONEWALL RTS. IN JUNE OF 1969, PATRONS AND SUPPORTERS OF A POPULAR GAY BAR NEW YORK CY, LLED THE STONEWALL INN, STAGED AN UPRISG DURG A ROUTE POLICE RAID, ACRDG TO THE NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT. THE DAYS-LONG NFLICT MARKED THE BEGNG OF A MORN MOVEMENT TO OUTLAW DISCRIMATORY LAWS AND PRACTIC AGAST LGBTQ AMERINS. THE FIRST PRI PARAS WERE HELD A YEAR AFTER THE UPRISG, ATTRACTG THOANDS OF PARTICIPANTS. TODAY, THOANDS OF PRI PARAS, MARCH AND FTIVALS ARE HELD AROUND THE WORLD. THE MONTH-LONG CELEBRATN AIMS TO BOTH UPLIFT THOSE THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AND SERV AS A PH TO ACHIEVE EQUAL JTICE AND OPPORTUNI. PRINT JOE BIN ON TUDAY OFFICIALLY CLARED JUNE 2021 AS "LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH" AFTER SIGNG A PROCLAMATN. RELATED: CELEBRATE PRI MONTH 2021 WH THE LGBTQ MOVI AND SHOWS THAT ARE EE TO STREAM THIS STORY WAS REPORTED OM CCNATI. BREAKING NEWS
- NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- NFL SAYS “FOOTBALL IS GAY” AFTER CARL NASSIB OUT
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
NFL SHAR PRI-THEMED LOGO, SAYS STANDS WH LGBTQ+ MUNY BY KELLY HAY PUBLISHED JUNE 3, 2021 UPDATED 1:43PM EQUY AND INCLN FOX 10 PHOENIX SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD THE HISTORY OF JUNE BEG PRI MONTH EVERY JUNE, THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AND ALLI CELEBRATE WHAT HAS BEE NEW YORK - THE NATNAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE EMBRACED THE START OF PRI MONTH THIS WEEK BY SHARG S FAMED LOGO RABOW LORS A SHOW OF "SUPPORT AND SOLIDARY" WH THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. "WE STAND WH LGBTQ+ PEOPLE THIS MONTH AND YEARLONG WH A MMENT TO OUR PLAYERS, OUR FANS AND OUR STAFF TO LIVE PROUDLY AND THENTILLY," THE NFL SAID WEDNDAY A POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA, ADDG "HAPPY PRI MONTH!" IN A PHOTO OF S PRI-THEMED NFL SHIELD, ALL 32 TEAMS’ LOGOS WERE ALSO DISPLAYED RABOW LORS. THE SAN FRANCIS 49ERS ANNOUNCED MONTH-LONG PLANS TO CELEBRATE PRI MONTH THROUGHOUT JUNE, CLUDG A GENRLS CLOTHG LE WHICH 100% OF THE PROCEEDS WILL BENEF LOL LGBTQ+ ANIZATNS. ON JUNE 22, THE TEAM WILL HOLD THE 2021 49ERS PRIDE LGBTQ+ ACTIVISM SPORTS PANEL FEATURG PROFSNAL ATHLET AND SPORTS PERSONALI LIKE KIMBERLY CHEXNAYR, FALLON FOX AND KURTIS GABRIEL. THE PANEL WILL DISCS THE NORMALIZATN OF LGBTQ+ ATHLET AND THEIR PERSONAL EXPERIENC AS OUT AND ALLIED PERSONS SPORTS, THE TEAM SAID. THE SEATTLE SEAHAWKS TEAMED UP WH FELLOW SPORTS TEAMS THE CY TO DRIVE SUPPORT FOR LOL LGBTQ+-OWNED SMALL BS AND GENR-CLIVE YOUTH SPORTS. "WE'RE PROUD TO PROMOTE ACCEPTANCE AND AWARENS," THE TEAM WROTE A POST. FORMER NFL PLAYER RYAN O’CALLAGHAN, WHO PLAYED WH THE NEW ENGLAND PATRTS AND KANSAS CY CHIEFS, ME OUT AS GAY A 2017 STORY PUBLISHED BY OUTSPORTS — A SPORTS NEWS SE FOCG ON LGBT ISSU AND PERSONALI. HE TOLD THE OUTLET THAT THE NFL’S SUPPORT OF PRI MONTH IS IMPORTANT WNG HEARTS AND MDS AMID SOME NEGATIVE MENTS ONLE. "THE RPONSE SHOWS PEOPLE’S LACK OF UNRSTANDG AND IGNORANCE," O’CALLAGHAN SAID. "I’M GLAD THE NFL DO . SMALL GTUR LIKE THAT ADD UP." O’CALLAGHAN HID HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN THROUGHOUT HIS FOOTBALL REER. HE TOLD THE OUTLET THAT HE HAD CID TO PLAY THE SPORT, CLUDG LLEGE AT THE UNIVERSY OF CALIFORNIA—BERKELEY, A LARGE PART TO HI HIS SEXUALY. RELATED: BIN PROCLAIMS JUNE AS "LGBTQ+ PRI MONTH," EXPOUNDG S CREATN AND HISTORY PRI MONTH, WHICH IS NOW CELEBRATED BY LGBTQ+ MUNI AND ALLI ALL OVER THE WORLD, STEMS OM THE TRAGEDY OF THE STONEWALL RTS. IN JUNE OF 1969, PATRONS AND SUPPORTERS OF A POPULAR GAY BAR NEW YORK CY, LLED THE STONEWALL INN, STAGED AN UPRISG DURG A ROUTE POLICE RAID, ACRDG TO THE NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT. THE DAYS-LONG NFLICT MARKED THE BEGNG OF A MORN MOVEMENT TO OUTLAW DISCRIMATORY LAWS AND PRACTIC AGAST LGBTQ AMERINS. THE FIRST PRI PARAS WERE HELD A YEAR AFTER THE UPRISG, ATTRACTG THOANDS OF PARTICIPANTS. TODAY, THOANDS OF PRI PARAS, MARCH AND FTIVALS ARE HELD AROUND THE WORLD. THE MONTH-LONG CELEBRATN AIMS TO BOTH UPLIFT THOSE THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AND SERV AS A PH TO ACHIEVE EQUAL JTICE AND OPPORTUNI. PRINT JOE BIN ON TUDAY OFFICIALLY CLARED JUNE 2021 AS "LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH" AFTER SIGNG A PROCLAMATN. RELATED: CELEBRATE PRI MONTH 2021 WH THE LGBTQ MOVI AND SHOWS THAT ARE EE TO STREAM THIS STORY WAS REPORTED OM CCNATI. BREAKING NEWS
Two gay former NFL players talk about the importance of the league’s support, as most fans seem to unrstand the gture. * nfl gay rainbow *
Former NFL player Ryan O’Callaghan, who played wh the New England Patrts and Kansas Cy Chiefs, me out as gay a 2017 story published by Outsports — a sports news se focg on LGBT issu and personali. In June of 1969, patrons and supporters of a popular gay bar New York Cy, lled the Stonewall Inn, staged an uprisg durg a route police raid, acrdg to the NYC LGBT Historic S Project. Print Joe Bin on Tuday officially clared June 2021 as "Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month" after signg a proclamatn.
NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO
Anti-gay athlet baseball, soccer, hockey and gby have missed the pot of rabow uniforms. * nfl gay rainbow *
Throughout his NFL reer and time playg football at Cal, O’Callaghan hid he was gay, assumg everyone football would reject him if they knew. He didn’t thk he uld ever live as an out gay man. Another popular meme has been potg out that another team’s fans are so gay (bee beg gay is bad) that they mt love Pri month:.
“It’s a shame for people to reject the NFL for embracg the gay muny, ” Rohrer said. “The gay muny is a huge supporter of all sports, there are a lot of gay athlet every sport, football beg one of them. It mak no sense for people to be upset at the league for showg some pri and rpect for the ex-players the NFL who are gay.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib, who beme the first openly gay active NFL player June, helped sign ctom, rabow cleats to raise awarens * nfl gay rainbow *
O’Callaghan was quick to pot out that, while ’s important to ntue to pot to rners of homophobic nonsense sports, this don’t mean a gay NFL player would be rejected by the league, s teams or most fans. “A lot of people are gog to say this is proof pro sports aren’t ready for gay athlet, but I thk ’s proof the NFL is ready, ” O’Callaghan said.
"The NFL's #PRIDE365 efforts over the past year clu makg charable donatns to anizatns cludg the Trevor Project, Celebratg Spir wh GLAAD, promotg natnal g out day across the league, clive marketg efforts wh our 'Football is Gay' mpaign, a night of pri at SBLVI, allyship efforts wh the venant hoe LA, a NGFFL (Natnal Gay Flag Football League) draft pick and so much reported by The Post Millennial, The Trevor Project has been acced of groomg kids to transng after a mother posed as a teen and was enuraged to acceptg trans iology. Now ’s clear they started a misguid trend that is not-so-quietly buildg amongst anti-gay athlet sports around the world. A few years ago, soccer player Jaelene Hkle refed to do the same, fflg que a few feathers women’s profsnal soccer, where so many gay athlet are out.
I had prevly said I was rervg judgment of Daniels’ anti-gay past to see what she’d do next.
NFL SAYS “FOOTBALL IS GAY” AFTER CARL NASSIB OUT
Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib, the first out gay active player NFL history, hasn't been shy about his inty sce g out prr to the * nfl gay rainbow *
Now ’s clear the Courage are embracg and employg a woman who fully rejects gay fans. Players of the Manly Sea Eagl Atralia, as well as Paris Sat Germa’s Idrissa Gueye om the rabidly anti-gay untry of Senegal, did the same last year.
The anti-gay athlet hi behd “the Bible” and other old-fashned cultural norms wh their refal, wh the Rays players jotly sayg “’s jt a liftyle that...
It’s not easy to set asi what your parents, televisn, the news media, advertisements, some iends and your own relig lears told you about gay people for many years. I was a uple s ago, but I’ve sce left my relig beliefs the rear-view mirror, part bee of how people like Daniels and the other anti-gay athlet have ed the relign I loved to beat me over the head wh the Bible.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
The Natnal Football League clared, "Football is gay," a vio shared on Twter on Monday rponse to player Carl Nassib's g out. * nfl gay rainbow *
While the Rays players said their horribly wrten statement that they want gay people “to feel safe and wele here” at the ballpark, their sglg out of this one issue the Bible says otherwise. Instead, the athlet send the very clear polil msage that they don’t want gay people around.
Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib, who beme the first openly gay active NFL player June, helped sign ctom, rabow cleats to raise awarens and money for the LGBTQ participatn wh the NFL’s My Cse My Cleats fundraiser, Nassib created the rabow cleats this season to spotlight the LGBTQ youth suici preventn and crisis terventn anizatn the Trevor part of the mpaign, players n ctom sign their own cleats to raise awarens for the nonprof anizatns of their choice. Cleveland Browns fullback and LGBTQ ally Johnny Stanton, whose uncle is gay, created rabow cleats support of Athlete Ally, which promot LGBTQ cln sports.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer. * nfl gay rainbow *
At least 186 out athlet om around the world were prent at this year’s Olympics, more than triple the number at the 2016 R Summer Gam, acrdg to asi om the NFL, the NHL also weled s first openly gay active player when Nashville Predators' Le Prokop me out July.
Also blogs at York Mets send baseman Daniel Murphy -- the team's lone All-Star reprentative 2014 -- ed a b of a ntroversy last week when he said, "I do disagree wh the [gay] liftyle, 100 percent. " Murphy was rpondg to a prentatn by former MLB player Billy Bean, who said publicly he was gay after his playg days were over and has been tourg var teams' sprg trag mps as MLB's Ambassador for suatn highlights an tertg gap the uni-verse.
Here's a timele of LGBT-centric uniforms and uni-related gtur that Uni Watch is aware of, begng wh the most recent stanc:Current: A Swedish hockey team, Kina IF, has been wearg rabow-patterned gay pri uniforms throughout the season. January and Febary: Men's and women's llege basketball teams the Ameri East Conference partnered wh the You Can Play Project, which supports acceptance of lbian, gay, bixsexual and transgenr players, ach and fans, to hold "You Can Play" Nights, wh players wearg pregame warm-up shirts wh a rabow treatment of the nference logo on the ont and "You Can Play" on the back. September: Several soccer players the English Premier League wore rabow-patterned shoelac to raise awarens of LGBT issu and show support for gay 2: The Charlton RiverDogs, a mor league baseball team, wore Charlton Rabows throwbacks njunctn wh the 2014 Charlton Pri Ftival.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Carl Nassib -- the NFL's only openly gay player -- will be showg his support for the LGBTQ+ muny on Sunday ... by wearg a pair of ctom rabow cleats. * nfl gay rainbow *
(One footnote: The German Olympic team's rabow-patterned uniforms for the 2014 Wter Gam Sochi, Rsia, were ially terpreted by many observers as a prott agast Rsia's anti-gay laws.
NFL says football is also 'lbian, queer, bisexual, transgenr' and more new vio after Carl Nassib me out as gay * nfl gay rainbow *
But many of the "Big Four" pro teams now schle annual gay pri-themed events on their promotnal lendars, and those promotns sometim clu rabow-accented treatments of the team's brandg.
Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach, is the first male ach a major U.S. men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * nfl gay rainbow *
But will we ever see a major pro team wearg a gay pri uni? The fact that there are no openly gay athlet the sports is probably part of the reason why.
I'd rather see more openly gay athlet wearg a regular, non-rabow uniform that says, 'Hey, I'm a member of this team.
Buzksi said the gay pri uniforms he's seen, like the Swedish hockey signs, have been "very posive, " although he don't view uniforms as a major ponent of the fight agast anti-gay bias sports. "We've been foced more on makg team environments acceptg of openly gay players, " he said.