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- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- 'GROWG UP, FELT LIKE I WAS TOO GAY TO BE BLACK AND TOO BLACK TO BE GAY'
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. * black gay men with dreads *
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. I realised that I would have to fally tell her the tth - I was gay.
'GROWG UP, FELT LIKE I WAS TOO GAY TO BE BLACK AND TOO BLACK TO BE GAY'
Dpe knowg I was gay om the age of 14, took me almost 10 years to e out. I'm 28 now, and growg up, I didn’t know anyone who was gay, nor were there any black gay role mols on TV or the media.
9% of the UK’s black populatn scribe themselv as openly gay, pared to 2% of the total UK until I was my early twenti, I buried my feelgs and tried my bt to pretend to be straight. When my iends ed to say thgs like “that’s so gay” - meang somethg was unol - I’d jo so I wouldn't stand by the time I turned 21, I uldn’t supprs my sexualy anymore.
I knew pretty much nothg about the gay muny, and was eager to learn.