I'm 43 – but I'm ma to feel like a dosr by younger gay men | Metro News

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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.

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. “It’s don’t jt show up photographs, but letters and whatnot—there’s a great al more fort and ls of a ncern over the implitns of male physil affectn until historil thgs like McCarthy’s nflatn of munism wh queerns forced Amerins to live unr a shadow of homosexual panic.

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

”Even wh the rise of the ee-love hippie unterculture of the 1960s and ’70s and rultg liberalizatn of Amerin sexual attus over the past few generatns, that same gay paranoia still persists ep the heart of the male psyche. Bros high-five, hug, and slap butts after a touchdown or other more emotnally charged moments all the time (rearch suggts that all-du boozefts are prime grounds for “exploratn”), but prolonged physil ntact holds the risk of steppg over that visible le between straight and gay—or jt pla male touch isn’t jt sential for childhood velopment, ntribut to our overall emotnal well-beg as morn men. So spe the social anxiety around homosexualy that’s still prevalent, we’ve adapted to prerve this sential homosocial bondg.

“We have bro hugs and fist bumps and all kds of ways that we try to appear closer to men whout appearg to be gay, ” explas Michael Kimmel, thor of Guyland, who suggts that the rise of the sports bar, the bastn of bro-dom on par wh the at ho, mirrors the rise of touch isolatn that acpanied the visibily of gay men morn society.