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

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
• MATTHEW GRECH: FACG PRISON FOR SHARG EX-GAY STORY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX

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

-- 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.

“Beg a gay filmmaker, bed wh my love for World War II history, I knew I had to tell this story, ” Vallente, the director and -wrer of the film, said. Homosexualy was illegal the U. As a rult, rrponnce tailg gay love om that time is extremely rare.

” For Vallente, highlightg the posivy of gay love was important when producg “The Letter Men.

THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR

The horrific killg of Matthew Shepard 1998 is wily seen as one of the worst anti-gay hate crim Amerin history. They pistol whipped him wh a gun then tied him to a fence eezg ndns and set fire to him before leavg him to attack beme a e célèbre: precipated a natnal backlash agast hyper-macho culture and tac tolerance of homophobia. As a rult of Matthew’s ath, many good thgs have happened for the gay muny.

Policians and celebri pledged support and fundg to bat anti-gay hate crime. The Shepard fay have bee mpaigners for gay rights.

Jimenez has been acced of beg a revisnist, a cricism ually rerved for extreme rightwg iologu that ny the Holot, and labelled a homophobe. When he started he was nvced that Matthew died at the hands of homophob, but he soon disvered that Matthew’s tragedy began long before the night he was killed. “This do not make the perfect poster boy for the gay-rights movement, ” says Jimenez.

MATTHEW GRECH: FACG PRISON FOR SHARG EX-GAY STORY

But this is not the Matthew Shepard who beme a celebrated figure for the gay-rights movement Ameri. But the town also has a number of mobile home parks at the edg, some more ndown than the eveng of 6 October 1998, Matthew went to the Firi bar, a lol hangout that was purportedly gay-iendly.

It was fairly well known the Laramie muny that McKney wouldn’t be one that was strikg out of a sense of homophobia. They ntacted the Associated Prs and a number of lol gay anisatns that same day.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Stephen Jimenez is an award-wng journalist and gay man.

So why has he put such time and effort to attemptg to prove that Matthew’s murr was not a hate crime, pecially as has seen him acced of beg an ally to the rightwg Christian fundamentalists who ny the realy of homophobia?

MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX

“The view was that homophobic rednecks walked to a bar and saw an obvly gay man wh money and targeted him and beat him to ath for that reason, ” says Jimenez. That plit the origal story of two strangers walkg to a bar and targetg Matthew – someone they did not know – bee he was gay. “Rsell Henrson ed to hang around wh gay people, ” Johnson told me.

“Laramie had a big gay populatn.

I knew what people’s sexual orientatn was bee my bt iend’s son was gay. ”The police did not vtigate the killers’ relatnship to the gay days after the attack, on 12 October, Matthew died.