Jaguars ach Kev Maxen supported after g 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
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• 49ERS' KATIE SOWERS BE NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ACH, SEND WOMAN TO HOLD FULL-TIME POST
• WHY I ME OUT AS A GAY FOOTBALL ACH
• COLTON UNRWOOD'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH AND TEAMMAT REACT TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY: 'COULDN'T BE HAPPIER'
• COLTON UNRWOOD'S FORMER LLEGE FOOTBALL ACH, TEAMMAT AFTER HE ME OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY: 'TOOK AMAZG URAGE'
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen is gay. No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual orientatn.And that ma him angry — at himself.“It was an anger and hatred of myself bee I put myself a life where I was livg by other people’s l and not by my own,” Maxen told Outsports. Men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017. First-year Sparks ach Curt Miller, who ached the Connecticut Sun for seven years before that, has been out for s.Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas Rairs.It was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U.

NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY

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.

Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars football team, me out as gay on Thursday an terview wh the LGBTQ sports-foced webse Outsports. That signatn mak Maxen the first out gay male ach — of any level — men’s U. In 2014, Michael Sam was the first out gay player to be drafted when he was selected by the then-St.

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

On the achg si, several female assistant ach the NFL have prevly e out as gay, cludg former San Francis 49ers assistant ach Katie Sowers, there has prevly been no known out gay male head or assistant ach the league. Curt Miller, who is currently the head ach of the Los Angel Sparks, is the first out gay male ach the WNBA, but there have been no out gay ach any of the four major men’s U.

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Major profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward. In his 10 years wh the pany, Nick has led ESPN's verage of the Ners' 2019 Super Bowl n, Col Kaepernick's prott, the Rams makg Michael Sam the first openly gay player drafted to the NFL, Sam's subsequent pursu of a roster spot and the team's relotn and stadium saga. She's also the send full-time female assistant ach NFL jos Buffalo Bills qualy ntrol ach Kathryn Smh, who last year beme the league's first female full-time Tuday, Sowers, 31, ma more history, beg the NFL's first openly gay ach.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH

"Football teach so many great life lsons to those who play or ach, " he says, "but one negative thg that do teach is that beg gay is not okay. Colton Unrwood is ntug to receive support after he me out as gay on Wednday.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

I thk I speak for all of his former teammat sayg that we support him g [out as gay]. Unrwood me out as gay durg a s-down terview wh Rob Roberts that aired on Good Morng Ameri Wednday. Durg the personal nversatn, tled "Colton Unrwood: In His Own Words, " he discsed how football had played a part him reprsg his sexualy, sayg that the word "gay was always affiliated wh a nnotatn of negativy.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

I've hated myself for a long time, and I'm gay. That weight lifted off Unrwood's shoulrs was the revelatn that he's gay – a tth Unrwood told the entire world on Wednday an emotnal terview on ABC's "Good Morng Ameri.

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49ERS' KATIE SOWERS BE NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ACH, SEND WOMAN TO HOLD FULL-TIME POST

I thk I speak for all of his former teammat sayg that we support him g (out as gay). " On GMA on Wednday, Unrwood scribed football beg his ma inty and that locker room homophobic language throughout his high school and llege reer played a part him stayg closeted. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRairs Coach Rigns After Homophobic and Misogynistic EmailsIn emails tailed by The New York Tim, Rairs Coach Jon Gn sually ed misogynistic and homophobic language to disparage Scuteri/Associated PrsPublished Oct.

28, 2021Jon Gn stepped down Monday as the ach of the Las Vegas Rairs football team hours after The New York Tim tailed emails which he had ma homophobic and misogynistic remarks, followg an earlier report of racist statements about a unn rignatn was a strikg parture om the football league for a ach who had won a Super Bowl, been a marquee analyst on ESPN and returned to the N. Officials, as part of a separate workplace misnduct vtigatn that did not directly volve him, found that Gn had sually and equently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language over several years to nigrate people around the game and to mock some of the league’s momento nounced the emergence of women as refere, the draftg of a gay player and the tolerance of players prottg durg the playg of the natnal anthem, acrdg to emails reviewed by The ’s msag were sent to Bce Allen, the former print of the Washgton Football Team, and others, while he was workg for ESPN as a lor analyst durg “Monday Night Football. ” In the emails, Gn lled the league’s missner, Roger Gooll, a “faggot” and a “cluels anti football psy” and said that Gooll should not have prsured Jeff Fisher, then the ach of the Rams, to draft “queers, ” a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team numero emails durg a seven-year perd endg early 2018, Gn cricized Gooll and the league for tryg to rce ncsns and said that Eric Reid, a player who had monstrated durg the playg of the natnal anthem, should be fired.

WHY I ME OUT AS A GAY FOOTBALL ACH

In several stanc, Gn ed a homophobic slur to refer to Gooll and offensive language to scribe some N. Circle of peers, where whe male cisn makers felt fortable sharg pornographic imag, ridg the league polici, and jocularly sharg homophobic banter fli the face of the league’s public nouncements of racism and sexism and s promis to be more clive amid cricism for not listeng to the ncerns of Black players, who make up about 70 percent of rosters. Player to publicly clare that he is gay.

COLTON UNRWOOD'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH AND TEAMMAT REACT TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY: 'COULDN'T BE HAPPIER'

”Privately, Allen and Gn appeared to have few boundari exprsg homophobic and transphobic language. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRairs’ Carl Nassib Announc He’s Gay, an N. FirstThe Rairs fensive leman me out a statement posted to his Instagram acunt on Monday, beg the first active player the league to publicly intify as gay.

ViotranscripttranscriptCarl Nassib Be First Openly Gay Active N. I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay.

“I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt. I actually hope that like one day vios like this and the whole g-out procs are jt not necsary, but until then I’m gog to do my bt and my part to cultivate a culture that’s acceptg, that’s passnate, ” before addg that he would donate $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, a nonprof group that foc on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth. L., and mak him the first openly gay active player the league’s 101-year history.

COLTON UNRWOOD'S FORMER LLEGE FOOTBALL ACH, TEAMMAT AFTER HE ME OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY: 'TOOK AMAZG URAGE'

“Sports are, many ways, one of the last bastns of a place where homophobia n thrive, ” said Cathy Renna, a spokwoman for the Natnal L. ”Michael Sam, an all-Amerin fensive leman at Missouri, had been viewed as the most likely to acquire that distctn when he announced he is gay before he beg chosen by the Rams the seventh round of the 2014 N.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

The Dallas Cowboys signed Sam to their practice squad, but he never played a regular season Otero/Associated PrsSam’s draft stat was seen as a barometer of whether the climate of men’s pro sports was beg more acceptg of gay athlet, particularly bee Febary 2014 the N. Had jt bee the first of the four tradnal major Amerin men’s sports leagu to have an openly gay active player when Jason Colls joed the Sam left the N. Players had prevly announced publicly that they were gay, but all after their playg reers were over.

David Kopay beme the first pro football player to publicly e out as gay 1975, three years after he retired.

He played for ne seasons wh the San Francis 49ers and four other teams the 1960s and 1970s, and has sce bee an activist and an ambassador for the Gay Gam, a quadrennial sportg Simmons was the send former player to announce that he was gay, dog so 1992 after his reer wh the Giants and Washgton Football Team had end. Simmons also said he never would have clared himself gay durg the four seasons he played for the N. ”In recent years, the league has publicly supported Pri Month through promotnal efforts like changg official social media avatars to clu rabows and supportg the You Can Play Project, which provis rourc to enurage clivy youth sports, even as some players have ma rogatory statements about gay people wh ltle penalty or supported groups that oppose gay Wewerka for The New York TimIn 2013, Chris Culliver of the San Francis 49ers and Chris Clemons of the Seattle Seahawks ma offensive ments when asked about the prospect of havg a gay teammate.