Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e 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 ACH OUT AS GAY
- MARVEL’S ICEMAN JT ME OUT AS GAY
- ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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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. In this story:Jacksonville JaguarsJaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen beme the first publicly-known male ach Amerin men’s profsnal sports to e out as gay Thursday.Maxen spoke wh Outsports to share his journey and why he’s choosg to e out publicly.“I don’t want to feel like I have to thk about anymore,” Maxen said.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
Jacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay, makg him the first out male ach a pro men's league. NBC Sports' Corey Robson explas why this is a big step for football. * mutant men gay *
I want to be vol support of people livg how they want to live, but I also want to jt live and not feel fear about how people will react.”Maxen, who has been wh his partner Nick for over two years, exprsed that the ntued support om the people around him helped him feel fortable to share his news.“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 said.Maxen also noted that he reached out to Carl Nassib, who is the only known gay NFL player the league right now, back Feb. Northstar: One of the first gay mutants, Northstar ma headl worldwi wh his marriage to Kyle Jd 2012. Benjam Deeds: Deeds is one of the most recent X-Men to e out as gay, havg exhibed powers durg a pro-mutant rally on his llege mp.
After fightg numero battl, Coloss forms a platonic iendship wh the (still gay) Northstar. Unfortunately, this universe's Nightcrawler is outwardly homophobic and hurtful toward Coloss, never creatg the iendly bonds they form the ma Marvel Howlett: Another alternate universe mutant, this versn of Wolvere lted after the god Hercul. And on Wednday, November 4, he me out as a gay man the pag of Unnny X-Men No.
600 (a follow-up to last April's reveal that a younger versn of the character was gay — more on this a b). This edorial move mak one of Marvel's most inic and high-profile hero a gay man — a ttament to the pany's ongog missn to clu more diversy and make sure s ic books reflect the real world. One of the nflicts younger Iceman fac is that he's gay, while the olr versn of himself isn't.
MARVEL’S ICEMAN JT ME OUT AS GAY
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40 (April 2015) we found out, by way of telepathy, that the younger Iceman is a gay man. Wh younger Iceman beg gay, olr Iceman datg women, and Jean Grey llg "a unique suatn, " there was a qutn of whether the X-Men would ultimately get to the nature-vers-nurture bate — a story that uld get really msy. Though Iceman wasn't explicly wrten to be a gay character, his storyl and his history uld be terpreted as allegori for LGBTQ life.
Iceman isn't Brian Michael Bendis's only gay character.
But he also created another gay X-Man named Benjam Deeds.
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14 (2013), Deeds, like Iceman, out as gay:. "The fact that Ben has e out as homosexual is jt a small facet of who he is and what he is gog to brg to Cyclops’ select team of X-Men, " Marvel spokman Joe Taraborrelli told the Huffgton Post 2013.
One of the more pellg qutns is what kd of gay character Iceman will be. There's been a trend ic books and pop culture that se gay characters troduced but then shipped off to romanc and shuttled to marriag (see: Northstar).
A lot of gay characters are also often good-lookg whe men (see: Northstar, Iceman, Deeds, Wicn, etc. It's been a very one-dimensnal, "rpectable" view of gay life that's often void of sex or, more simply, imperfectn and discretn.