Jags' Maxen is first male Amerin pro sports ach to e out as gay - ESPN

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• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

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

Soclogists like Ibson intify the pathologizg of sexualy durg the begng of the twentieth century—the suggtn that huggg and kissg other men didn’t jt note a specific sexual inty, but that homosexualy was some sort of dysfunctn—as the spark that drove tradnal Amerin bro-dom to an artificial Mark Greene dubbed the cle of male ntact photographs and media throughout the twentieth century “touch isolatn, ” a homophobic reactn to du-on-du timacy that evolved alongsi the straight-laced culture of the 1950s that has robbed men of healthy physil teractn wh other men. Women are enuraged to hug and olic like they're a Taylor Swift vio, but accintally snag your bt bud’s hand while reachg for the check and bam: You might be gay, buddy boy—or, worse, a mie. John IbsonIt was the social nservatism of the 1950s that helped nflate healthy male timacy wh homosexualy durg the postwar anti-munist fervor.