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- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
- JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
- IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
- STATE DEPARTMENT'S 1ST OPENLY GAY SPOKPERSON SENDS SIGNAL TO THE WORLD, ADVOT SAY
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. His announcement is a first for a male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league. * gay spokes *
In vios circulatg on social media, Matty says he had nsired pullg the show but said wouldn’t be fair on the fans, ‘bee you are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive and ol. Homosexualy is punishable by f, ng and prison sentenc of up to 20 years. Matty has long been an outspoken advote for the LGBTQ+ muny, prevly fyg Dubai’s anti-gay laws by kissg a male fan durg a show.
CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
He said he was threatened wh arrt for the act at the time, wh homosexualy illegal and punishable by up to 10 years prison the untry. 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. 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.
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JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
-based profsnal league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.
The big on - we've expand the Parental Rights Edutn law, which people outsi Florida probably know as Don't Say Gay, and unr that teachers n now lose their certifitn if they talk to kids pretty much any gra about genr inty or sexualy. Pieters spoke an emotnal Kisby for The New York TimPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 21, 2023In 1985, when fear and homophobia were still drivg much of the nversatn surroundg AIDS, the Rev.
Stephen Pieters, a gay pastor who had the disease, was a cidly different May, at the St. Pieters spoke forthrightly about beg gay and about his illns, and Ms. ”In the years sce, that terview has been creded wh helpg to change at least some viewers’ perceptns of gay people, AIDS and fah.
IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
Some televangelists had been implyg or statg outright that AIDS was dive retributn for homosexualy. He was spokman, Harlan Boll, said the e was a sepsis Pieters, who had ntued his mistry and sce 1994 had performed wh the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel, was lookg forward to the publitn next year of his book, “Love Is Greater Than AIDS: A Memoir of Survival, Healg, and Hope. So many gay men of my generatn did not get to grow old.
”When he was a teenager, he said, he regnized that he was gay and talked to his pastor at a Congregatnal church about .
STATE DEPARTMENT'S 1ST OPENLY GAY SPOKPERSON SENDS SIGNAL TO THE WORLD, ADVOT SAY
’”He said that after graduatg om Northwtern Universy 1974 wh a bachelor’s gree speech, he joed the Metropolan Communy Church Chigo and felt lled to a mistry foced on gay people, that church’s ma dience.
“I’ve had so many people over the years e up to me and say, ‘I saw your terview live, bee my mother always had PTL on, and changed my life bee I realized I uld be gay and Christian at the same time, ’” he said. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 24 of the New York edn wh the headle: Steve Pieters, 70, Gay Pastor Whose Words Changed Hearts, Di.