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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 ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
• THE LAVENR SRE: GAY AND LBIAN LIFE POST-WWII AMERI
• MAN CHARGED 1988 LD SE KILLG OF GAY AMERIN WHO PLUNGED OM ATRALIAN CLIFF
• WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO 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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

THE LAVENR SRE: GAY AND LBIAN LIFE POST-WWII AMERI

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

MAN CHARGED 1988 LD SE KILLG OF GAY AMERIN WHO PLUNGED OM ATRALIAN CLIFF

Earlier today, Whe attempted to whdraw his plea, but the urt refed to vate the Getty ImagThe cliffs surroundg the greater Sydney area were popular wh members of the gay muny lookg to hook up durg the 1970s and '80s, but also homophobic groups of men and youth who would asslt and often murr gay men, throwg them or forcg them to leap om the cliffs onto the rocks below. RELATED | Gay Man Btally Killed After Beg Lured to Park Via Datg App.

WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?

Sce the 1965 publitn of Tman Capote’s In Cold Blood, mastream crics have seemgly gone out of their way to ignore the thor’s trite weavg of homoerotic tensn to the liv and relatnships of the two ma characters, Perry Smh and Dick Hickock. I would argue, however, that stead of lackg motive, the murrs are clearly driven by a subnsc rage at the opprsn of gay men mid-twentieth-century mid-Ameri, as well as the shame and self-loathg ed by their margalizatn.

Signifintly, is Perry, the most obvly gay character of the crimal pair (spe Dick’s repeated e of enarments such as “honey” and “sugar” nversatn wh Perry), who ultimately shoots the Clutters.

In fact, as lerary scholar Kathryn Bond Stockton pots out, “the killg of the Clutters, Capote’s hands, is the rult of Perry’s missg the chance for a homosexual nnectn wh a iend” (311). Far om motivels, then, Perry’s killg spree is th directly lked to his anger toward the circumstanc that led to his life of crime, the cultural factors that works to prevent his rnn wh Willie-Jay, and his perceived need to assert ntrol over—or perhaps prove his masculy to—his new partner addn to his plex characterizatn of Perry’s tortured sense of his own sexualy, Capote liberately echo of a uple of key scen Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Fd” (1955), published ten years prr to In Cold Blood and pictg a siarly sensels murr as Capote’s text, to highlight the tragic nsequenc of the wispread opprsn of gay men the mid-twentieth-century. Certaly, that homosexualy was nsired even medil texts the 1960s as a pathologil illns, is unrstandable that Capote would track the motiv for the Clutter murr to the wispread opprsn and misunrstandg of gay men.