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Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer.

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JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Why boys crack up at rape jok, thk havg a girliend is “gay,” and still n’t cry—and why we need to give them new and better mols of masculy * be my american boy gay *

Anthony BlaskoThe Mistn of the Amerin BoyWhy boys crack up at rape jok, thk havg a girliend is “gay, ” and still n’t cry—and why we need to give them new and better mols of masculyUpdated at 9:30 p.

He relled an cint two years prr when a senr was braggg the locker room about how he’d nvced one of Cole’s female classmat—a young sophomore, Cole emphasized—that they were an em, then started hookg up wh other girls behd her back. Cole and a iend of his, another sophomore, told him to knock off. “And as I ntued to step back” and the other sophomore “ntued to step up, you uld tell that the guys on the team stopped likg him as much.

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They all had female iends; most had gay male iends as well.

K., and Mexi, Amerins reported more social prsure to be ever-ready for sex and to get wh as many women as possible; they also acknowledged more stigma agast homosexualy, and they received more msag that they should ntrol their female partners, as : Men “serve to know” the whereabouts of their girliends or wiv at all tim. “Huh, ” med Josh, a llege sophomore at Washgton State. “It’s not like my dad is some alholic, emotnally unavailable asshole wh a pulse, ” said a llege sophomore Southern California.

A llege sophomore Chigo told me that he hadn’t been able to cry when his parents divorced. ”Although losg ground more progrsive circl, like the one Cole ns , fag remaed pervasive the language of the boys I terviewed—cludg those who sisted that they would never e the word reference to an actual homosexual. That’s seen as heterosexual the “wrong” way, which explas why one high-school junr told me that havg a girliend was “gay.

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