Kev Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jaguars, publicly me out as gay Thursday, makg him the first known openly gay male ach the league.
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- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
- ROB KEARNEY: COMPETG AGAST GIANTS AND BEG AN OPENLY GAY STRONGMAN
- KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACH NFL
- WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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. * gay all about strength *
In 2022, Hong Kong will be hostg Gay Gam 11, which will clu a feature a wi array of sports and athlet — cludg physique bodybuildg and powerliftg. Pro-strongman Rob Kearney also dubbed the World’s Strongt Gay, jt broke the Amerin Log Prs Rerd by smashg through 475lb durg Pri Month (rerd ont of fabulo rabow lights, I should add). When you’re figurg out what strength sports podsts to listen to, navigatg the terra n be tough — there’s some low key transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny out there.
Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.
Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
Rob Kearney go pth on his trag, rise to strongman's ele, and life as an openly gay strength athlete. * gay all about strength *
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U. Rob also discs his journey as an openly gay strength athlete, and challengg what somethg or nventnal notns of what means to be strong and mascule.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. * gay all about strength *
It was fantastic, to say the TaoYou talk about some of the plitns that me om petg a untry where at the time homosexualy was illegal. Then the much more important qutn I want to ask after this, one at a time is, how has beg an openly gay strength athlete impacted your reer? Rob KearneyFor me, the handle me bee I had realized that when I’d e out as gay obvly my social media platform explod overnight.
I quickly realized that what I was dog beg openly gay and beg visible, as a visible member of the LGBTQ muny profsnal sports, was bigger than me jt petg Strongman.
JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
* gay all about strength *
I thk there’s a lot of stigma around gay men and one of the thgs that my hband and I try to do on Instagram, social media, is g the hashtag, breakg the stereotype, tryg to change that dialogue of what people thk gay is. I thk havg an openly gay athlete that wave among the more visible petors is impactful there bee as the sport ris and be more popular, reprentatn the sport is also gog to bee more and more important as new people get exposed to .
All that beg said, have you e across any negative reactns to your sexualy and beg open about and livg openly as a gay man om fellow Strongman petors? Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen me out publicly as gay Thursday, makg him the first known openly gay male ach the NFL and men’s profsnal sports the Uned Stat. RAIDERS' CARL NASSIB ON COMING OUT GAY: ‘I DIDN’T KNOW IF IT WOULD RUIN MY CAREER'"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 explaed.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPIn the NFL, Tampa Bay Bucneers fensive leman Carl Nassib beme the league’s first openly gay active player when he ma his announcement 2021 while playg for the Las Vegas Rairs. School is back ssn at Las Encas, and another year means another new season of Netflix's popular, wild, and gay as hell teen drama seri Ele!
ROB KEARNEY: COMPETG AGAST GIANTS AND BEG AN OPENLY GAY STRONGMAN
Season two of the seri (which featur a gay character named Lizzy, Nadia's bt iend played by out actrs Rebec Henrson) will see Nadia and Alan as they enunter another time portal and go on "an ever-expandg, era-spanng, tergeneratnal adventure. The highly-anticipated, live-actn adaptatn of Alice Oseman's beloved romantic, gay teen g-of-age graphic novel seri of the same name tells the story of "gentle Charlie and gby-lovg Nick" who "meet at sendary school and quickly disver that their unlikely iendship is blossomg to an unexpected romance. And we are nstantly told that proud gay/lbian upl who show their affectn to one another are “sexually perverted” or phg an agenda.
When I me out as a gay man on October 20, 2014, at the age of 22 years old, I never realized what would do to me as a person and my reer as a profsnal strongman. Now, I unrstand strongman isn’t exactly a ma-stream sport, but I am the only openly gay man petg at the profsnal level of arguably the most hyper-mascule sport the world.
Speakg om experience, I have received hundred of msag om LGBTQ+ youth (both out and closeted), about the impact I have had on their liv, simply bee I am a proud gay man and I do not hi that whatsoever. Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC3326393NIHMSID: NIHMS358675AbstractThis article explor gay and bisexual male adolcents’ posive perceptns of their sexual orientatn inty. In-pth qualative terviews were nducted wh an ethnilly diverse sample of 63 gay/bisexual male adolcents Chigo (N=42) and Miami (N=21).
KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACH NFL
Data revealed two major nceptual tegori: 1) posive personal nceptualizatns of beg gay/bisexual, and 2) riliency the face of gay-related opprsn. Addnal primary them and sub-them were intified wh each tegory that further illtrate how gay/bisexual youth were able to velop posive nceptualizatns of their sexual orientatn spe experiencg negative societal msag about beg gay/bisexual. Keywords: Bisexual, gay, male, riliency, sexual orientatn, youthAdolcence is a velopmental perd where young people are maturg physilly, emotnally and socially as they transn to adulthood (Erikson, 1980; Hill, 1983).
WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
When the fluenc are negative, psychologil distrs among adolcents may rult, pecially for those youth who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (Almeida, Johnson, Corliss, Molnar & Azrael, 2009; Hershberger & D’Augelli, 1995; Ueno, 2005). Th, this article tak a rilience-based approach to examg sexual orientatn inty among gay/bisexual male adolcents by sharg their perceptns regardg the posive aspects of beg gay/bisexual. S., gay and bisexual dividuals reported higher equenci of day-to-day and lifetime discrimatn experienc as pared to their heterosexual unterparts.
One study that addrsed this topic prented riliency strategi among lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) young people North Wt England and South Wal wh the ntext of hetero-normative environments (Surfield, Roen & McDermott, 2008).