Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
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KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
When HBO Max lnched, was for the gays and the gays only. The Legend of the Unrground explor the lonialist roots of homophobia, and how those aftershocks manift untls ways for untri that have anti-gay laws eply embedd their jtice systems. But if your two favore genr of film are “sad” and “gay”, Gia is for you.
Even by today’s standards, the film’s central terracial gay uple — spoiler alert — gettg a happy endg feels progrsive, as do the abundance of scen showg off their electric chemistry. It was even wrten by DeWt Boen, a gay screenwrer. The seri has never shied away om beg as gay as wants to be (’s on the CW, so that’s very gay™) but the addn of a Black lead means that they get to explore thgs a way they’ve never done before.
Even though the documentary is a celebratn of the fashn, culture and pageantry of drag also lv to tough tersectnal issu of race, class, homophobia and the experienc of trans people the 1980s. We may all be done wh the gay bt iend trope, but Shane Evans (Griff Matthews) is so much more than that.