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Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• ‘SURVIVOR’ 42: WORDS FROM THE CONTTANT OUTED AS GAY
• ON “SURVIVOR,” A GAY MAN SHOCKGLY OUTS A TRANS MAN
• BENJAM CHARL WATSON BRGS BLACK AND GAY VISIBILY TO DIGNATED SURVIVOR
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

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.

‘SURVIVOR’ 42: WORDS FROM THE CONTTANT OUTED AS GAY

There have been stanc of homophobia, transphobia and the reprentatn of LGBTQ+ nttants has been que limed.

Richard Hatch ma history as the very first wner of Survivor, and he did as an openly gay man. His iendship wh Courtney Yat was lightful to watch; many queer fans nsir Courtney a gay in herself, and they rema bt iends to this day.

ON “SURVIVOR,” A GAY MAN SHOCKGLY OUTS A TRANS MAN

Brice Izyah Johnston (Survivor: Cagayan). Brice Izayah was the first openly gay Black nttant on Survivor and his charmg personaly and inic purple troers stantly won him a followg. Brice's time on Cagayan was short-lived, as he was voted out the send episo, but after Jeff Probst snuffed his torch he found his time to she:.

Bret felt a kship to Zeke, who was also gay and felt fortable sharg this part of his inty. One particularly powerful moment was between two of the season’s gay petors.

But not everyone Romeo’s fay knew about him beg a gay man before the airg of Season 42. In his EW ex terview after the fale, Romeo Esbar talks about his relativ’ reactns to learng he was gay through the show.

BENJAM CHARL WATSON BRGS BLACK AND GAY VISIBILY TO DIGNATED SURVIVOR

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GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

We were also treated to an LGBTQ+ segment about how “credible” is that beg gay and gay marriage was “stigmatized” along wh Rird talkg about his hband, a “transgenr pregnant man. And ’s jt so credible that, like – was kd of stigmatized, right, like, to be gay?

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