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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• A SEND ACT FOR THE DOUBLE HEAR, THE PNEER SQUARE GAY BAR THAT LNCHED A THOAND STORI

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U. When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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What we do know: It was a fully functng gay bar sce at least the 1930s, back when owner Joe Bellotti Sr. Wells, who is not affiliated wh Nightjar, relled a pack of other gay and lbian bars Pneer Square durg that time, cludg the 611, the Silver Slipper and Shelly’s Leg.

A SEND ACT FOR THE DOUBLE HEAR, THE PNEER SQUARE GAY BAR THAT LNCHED A THOAND STORI

The Double Hear beme a gay bar the 1930s, when “Pneer Square is where all the gay kids hung out, ” a lol drag queen, popularly known as Vilma, said an terview for the book “An Eveng at the Garn of Allah, ” by lol historians Don Plson and Roger Simpson. ’s nt and uncle) were the managers, and they would “do anythg for you if they liked you, even bail you out of jail, but if you crossed John he’d throw you out a mute, gay or straight. The Double Hear, Vilma add, “was the only place on the Wt Coast so open and ee for gay people.

— whose wife was on the speakerphone terview promptg him to tell stori — n a gay bar such a gay-tolerant time?