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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY DANCE CLUBS ON THE WANE THE AGE OF GRDR
• THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
• IS JB GAY?
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS 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. 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. AdvertisementSKIP Ghis for The New York TimApril 26, 2016Wtgay, a isky gay dance party the Wt Village, end last summer when the buildg was sold to ndomium velopers. New owners, new Saturdays, a party Hell’s Kchen that drew about 1, 600 shirtls gay men every week for three years, stopped Febary, Escuela, a Lat-flavored gay dance club that throbbed for s near the Port Authory B Termal, shuttered s doors bee of clg attendance.

Seemgly overnight, New York Cy has bee a real-life “Footloose” — at least for dance-happy gay men who feel as if they have nowhere to boogie the days. While smaller gay bars abound (there are at least 17 Hell’s Kchen alone, by my unt), the number of large gay clubs and weekly dance parti has waned recent years.

GAY DANCE CLUBS ON THE WANE THE AGE OF GRDR

Brandon Voss, 36, a club promoter and -producer of several gay parti cludg Zoo, which end last year, said that the mand for dance parti has cled. ” he Schlueter for The New York TimSanne Bartsch, who 2014 hosted four weekly gay-iendly dance events and now has only one (a summertime party at Le Ba at the Standard), agre that technology has upend gay night life.

”The reasons gay men flocked to the dance floor have changed, too. In the age of same-sex marriage and transgenr rights, gays no longer rely on nightclubs as safe plac to ngregate. Moreover, the Monster, a longstandg gay bar Greenwich Village, has a dance floor, as do In, an unpretent club Astoria, Queens.

THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON

Promoters who are still the game say that the enomics of dance clubs have Rafferty, who ns a medium-size gay Saturday night dance party lled Tra at Undr, a club Hell’s Kchen, blam real tate for the dancg slowdown.

It’s the type of place where profsnal gay men button-down shirts gather after work and generally s still.

IS JB GAY?

”A rrectn was ma onMay 19, 2016: An article on May 5 about the creasg number of gay dance clubs Manhattan misstated the reason the club Escuela closed. Homosexualy is a crime Mlim-majory Malaysia.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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The owners, Woody Moser, now ceased, and his lover, Jose Rodriguez -- the soft-spoken, impecbly ifed 64-year-old stg at the end of the bar -- were among the first Chigo bar owners to advertise the gay prs, la Croix says. "It's really an important bar, " la Croix 21, which la Croix says is the olst gay-owned bar still operatg Chigo, is one of the lol sights that will be explored by a new pany, In addn to a gay and lbian bar history tour on Saturday, offergs clu a South Si gay neighborhoods history tour June 30 and an Historic Pullman District tour July tour guis are la Croix, a reporter at the Wdy Cy Tim, and Sandra Nichols, owner of a hospaly and tour a preview of the bar tour, la Croix says that bars were more than entertament spots the years before the Stonewall rts New York gurated the morn gay rights movement. Bars served as meetg plac and muny more than three years of documentg lol gay history, la Croix has repeatedly heard stori of first-time bar-goers circlg the block three tim before gog .

"When you step over the door of your first gay bar, you e out to yourself. To me, to step to a gay bar is a revolutnary act. "De la Croix has tracked down gay bars gog back to 1928, when Diamond Lil's -- named for the man who ran , who turn had taken the name of a Mae Wt play -- operated the ee and easy prewar atmosphere.

"After the war, thgs got real bad for gay people Chigo, " la Croix the notable postwar bars was Louis Gager's -- named, la Croix says, for "a huge, great fat gay man" who ran . Irvg Park Rd., was part of a triangle of gay bars. "There would be ps outsi wh a flashlight checkg to see if they had their fli ont, " which was nsired a mascule style, la Croix search of Chigo's gay history, la Croix has terviewed bar-goers alleys.

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Unfortunately, a lengthy and thoroughly humorls sequence wh the tular Webm Boys promotg their se a petn agast several petent drag queens at a gay club’s versn of the “Fay Fd” game show stayed the film.