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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• THE PROBLEM WH BEG GAY SOUTH KOREA
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO 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. -based profsnal league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen revealed that he is gay on Thursday. Maxen is believed to be the first male ach a major pro sport to publicly e out as gay.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

Former Jaguar center Brandon Lr praised workg wh Maxen, who reached out to openly gay NFL player Carl Nassib 2022. Elska Magaze, the gay photography and culture project that travels around the world meetg men om diverse LGBTQ muni, releas s latt issue. "This has been the most difficult issue to make yet", says Liam Campbell, edor and chief photographer of Elska, "We ntacted lerally hundreds of guys but the vast majory preferred to stay 'discreet', fearg that exposure any sort of gay media uld jeopardise their jobs, their fai, everythg.

The rult is a readg experience that giv an timate look si queer Seoul, as if we travelled together wh the Elska team to Seoul and met the guys real of the men the Seoul issue clu:U L, who shar his experience durg a trip to a tradnal bathhoe (a jjimjilbang), told through a lens of uncertaty and self-nscns;Jay S, who scrib the moment when his mother nonts him wh the accatn that he is gay;Ivan J, who reunts an afternoon of vegetable-aid masturbatn set to the soundtrack of hymnal Bach;Heezy Y, who talks about the difficulti of fdg succs a society so full of expectatns and nformy;Jose S-M, who as one of a large number of foreigners livg Seoul reflects upon his seven years livg the cy;Jam K, who discs tryg to rencile how to be a Korean man agast the opposg standard of masculy set by his Seoul is 180 pag.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

What is like to be gay South Korea? Homophobia is still rife South Korea, where very few mastream mic stars have e out as gay. There, homosexual sex is not banned, but is illegal the ary, where almost all men mt plete a stt of pulsory nscriptn.

“It’s kd of sad, ” said Jungm Kwon, an amic who wrote a book lled “Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasi. “On the one hand looks like the dtry is very open md to shippg culture, ” she told CNN, referrg to the culture among fans of imagg relatnships between their favore stars – cludg gay relatnships. Acrdg to Kwon, fans were spired by “yaoi” – a kd of Japane manga that featur gay relatnships between male upl – and began makg up stori about their favore stars.

Even now, K-pop labels sometim cultivate idols’ homoerotic appeal the hop that mak them more popular fanfictn, where Kwon timat 80% of stori volve gay story l. South Korea’s rerd labels are happy to let fans fantasize about idols beg gay. But they don’t want gay idols be open about their sexualy.

IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY

But when me time to but, the label was agast him butg as a gay idol.

“It’s a shame that’s the lim they n go when to showg homosexual teractn – n only be portrayed as funny.

After Hong me out publicly as gay 2000, he was fired om his hostg job and lost other work – and thor Kwon believ that harsh rponse has disuraged others om followg su. Holland thks thgs are changg: more artists appear to be ditg that they are alli of the gay muny. In the absence of nfirmatn, mentators have ed small, clive clu to speculate on their stance, for example, the time the band’s lear RM tweeted Macklemore’s song “Same Love, ” which promot equal rights for gay people.

THE PROBLEM WH BEG GAY SOUTH KOREA

But ultimately, experts believe a time when gay stars are accepted mastream K-pop uld still be some way off. Beg gay the ary?

I was wonrg if any of you had rmatn about what 's like to be a regular LGBT person Korea, the laws around beg gay the ary, and how the public has received any idols that have e out as gay? He says attus his native South Korea mean homosexualy is treated as a "foreign" issue.

A Pew study found 57% of people surveyed South Korea fd homosexualy unacceptable.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Bee my superrs are all ( their) 40s and 50s and they don’t really know what gay is, and I was aaid I might lose my job. He thks many South Koreans see homosexualy as a foreign phenomenon – pecially the olr generatn.

A Pew Rearch Center study found that 57% of people surveyed fd homosexualy unacceptable.

“Generally you nnot say you are gay openly South Korea, bee South Korea is a very nservative untry, ” explas Kang Myeongj, anizer of the Korea Queer Culture Ftival.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

I’m mentally sick … bee you don’t know anybody who’s gay you thk you’re the only crazy person. “Even though Korea is not very gay iendly… Korea lik to do whatever Ameri do, ” he lghs.

Back 2000, South Korean actor Hong Seok-cheon me out as gay. This was a major sndal back the day, as there were no other proment openly gay celebri Korea. But jt recently, a famo trot sger has e out as gay.

On the 10th anniversary of his but, South Korean sger Kwon Do Woon me out as gay.