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

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• GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER AND SWIMMER BOYIEND DANCE NIGHT AWAY AT PROM
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN 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
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY
• JAM CORN ‘THE PROM’ SPARKS CRIC OUTRAGE: ‘OFFENSIVE’ AND ‘WORST GAY-FACE’

GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER AND SWIMMER BOYIEND DANCE NIGHT AWAY AT PROM

And the two openly gay St. Ba, 19, and Sigmund, 18, are the only openly gay uple at John Burroughs School, but their beg at the dance was old news to the stunts there. “We have been the only openly gay uple at Burroughs sce I’ve been here, but isn’t a problem at all at our school.

But the stunts, faculty and admistratn at Burroughs have been ultra-supportive of Ba, who drew a prott om the Wtboro Baptist Church homophob after his g out as a high school football star beme natnal news.

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

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KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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.

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JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

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In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.

JAM CORN ‘THE PROM’ SPARKS CRIC OUTRAGE: ‘OFFENSIVE’ AND ‘WORST GAY-FACE’

He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

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