91-Year-Old Colorado Man Fally Celebrat PRIDE As An Openly Gay Man - CBS Colorado

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• MULTIPLE NBA NTENRS REPORTEDLY TERTED RUDY GAY
• PATRICK MAHOM' BROTHER JACKSON TARGET OF ANTI-GAY SLURS AT CHIEFS-BRONS GAME
• FROM HUMBLE BEGNGS, GAY BOWL ATTRACTS NFL SPONSORS AND TOUCH LIV
• 91-YEAR-OLD COLORADO MAN FALLY CELEBRAT PRIDE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

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

-- 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 Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

Kulmann, he said, supports ackg the cy, don’t stand up for gay rights and backs Florida Gov. In this story:Jacksonville JaguarsJaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen beme the first publicly-known male ach Amerin men’s profsnal sports to e out as gay Thursday.Maxen spoke wh Outsports to share his journey and why he’s choosg to e out publicly.“I don’t want to feel like I have to thk about anymore,” Maxen said.

I want to be vol support of people livg how they want to live, but I also want to jt live and not feel fear about how people will react.”Maxen, who has been wh his partner Nick for over two years, exprsed that the ntued support om the people around him helped him feel fortable to share his news.“It wasn’t until recently—and wh the immense love and support of my fay, my iends, lleagu and peers, and the urage and sacrifice om my partner—that I realized I have the right and rponsibily to love and be loved, and that maybe sharg this will hopefully give someone else the strength to accept their own life and take ntrol of their own story,” Maxen said.Maxen also noted that he reached out to Carl Nassib, who is the only known gay NFL player the league right now, back Feb. The Los Angel Lakers are one of five teams said to be actively explorg the optn of signg Rudy Gay this, 36, is obvly no longer the 20 PPG srer that he was for most of his reer.

MULTIPLE NBA NTENRS REPORTEDLY TERTED RUDY GAY

Earlier this summer, Gay was acquired by the Oklahoma Cy Thunr and waived. Acrdg to Michael Stto of HoopsHype, five teams are currently the hunt for Gay’s servic. “Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, ” he Lakers have been lked to a different potential pick-up recent days, but an obstacle uld rail the team’s plans.

In that scenar, Gay uld prove to be a solid Plan not L. A., the Mavericks and Pelins are two teams that uld really e the sort of veteran learship Gay would brg to the Warrrs and Bulls, meanwhile, would likely provi the most seamls of possible transns for Gay terms of how he lik to play and the way the talent around him would work. Gay is obvly approachg the end of his reer.

PATRICK MAHOM' BROTHER JACKSON TARGET OF ANTI-GAY SLURS AT CHIEFS-BRONS GAME

Which mak this cisn of where he will play next all the more Gay wants to w a champnship, he has to select the right landg spot for the 2023-24 NBA season. Where will Gay ultimately wd up when ’s all said and done? After the shootg the Colorado Sprgs gay club that killed at least five people and wound many others, the sports world exprsed love and support.

In addn, the Brons held a moment of silence for the people killed the shootg si the gay club. An NFL fan who was at the Kansas Cy Chiefs and Denver Brons game on Saturday was heard shoutg anti-gay slurs at Patrick Mahom’ brother Jackson. " Ryan Gaydos is a senr edor for Fox News Digal.

“I me out when I was 24 or 25, ” Bryant tells CNN Sport of his cisn to live openly as a gay athlete about a year after endg his NFL pursu. Now Bryant is back the sport as his te self, featured as the go-to receiver for the 2017 champn New York Warrrs at Gay Bowl, the annual tournament of the Natnal Gay Flag Football League. “The petn has progrsively gotten better, ” says Davis, 41, a figurehead the league who tak the Warrrs’ qut to repeat as Gay Bowl tleholrs serly.

FROM HUMBLE BEGNGS, GAY BOWL ATTRACTS NFL SPONSORS AND TOUCH LIV

Over the past 18 years Gay Bowl has grown om a three-team tournament played the dirt field of a Hollywood high school to a three-day event held rotatg ci boastg 35 sponsors, cludg Uned Airl, Fily Invtments, Sheraton Hotels and UPS. Honolulu, fact, recently beat out bids om At and Toronto for the 2020 gam, while New York will host s send Gay Bowl next year.

91-YEAR-OLD COLORADO MAN FALLY CELEBRAT PRIDE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

The New England Patrts were sponsors of last year’s Gay Bowl Boston, wh owner Robert Kraft speakg at the closg ceremony. For most of the 1, 000 or so participants of Gay Bowl, the long weekend reprents a rnn of iends and a celebratn of football – the sport they love, which many ways shaped their liv.