Kev Maxen be first male ach a US men’s pro sports league to publicly e out as gay | CNN

gay pride kc 2022

From paras & parti to film ftivals & art exhibs, here are 15 ways to celebrate lbian, gay, transgenr Pri Month KC this June.

Contents:

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. * gay pride kc 2022 *

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.

FORMER ROYALS PCHER REF TO WEAR TEAM’S GAY PRI LOGO

Kansas Cy played an important role the early gay rights movement, even predatg Stonewall. Here's how you n honor LGBTQ history Kansas Cy this Pri Month. * gay pride kc 2022 *

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

* gay pride kc 2022 *

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. As they enjoyed the floats and affirmatns of support for LGBTQ+ persons, they also ponred polil headwds facg gay and trans Amerins portns of the the rner of Bnswick Street and Park Avenue Rochter, llege stunts cheered the Pri Para om their porch Saturday afternoon, watchg the last of the floats and marchers.

Kansas Cy’s first Pri para 1977 was spearhead by Lea Hopks, whose anizg sparked a wir gay rights movement that ntu today. But was only a few weeks after that succsful event that Hopks found herself on the fense aga, when a proment anti-gay activist me on a csa through town. * gay pride kc 2022 *

”-- Maryann BatllePri Para: A superhero for a dayPayton Barn, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe at the 2023 Rochter Pri Para, is a gay Black man livg Rochter. But you have to be you, no matter what, Barn Barn held a cellphone toward the Pri Para and shared a livtream of the joyful marchg happeng down Park, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe, is a gay Black man livg Rochter.

-- Maryann BatllePri Para float honors memory of advote Dick JackmanA Rochter Pri Para 2023 float honored gay rights advote Dick Jackman, who was born Buffalo and lived Rochter and died 2016.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY PRIDE KC 2022

Kev Maxen be first male ach a US men’s pro sports league to publicly e out as gay | CNN .

TOP