Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
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- TAL OM A GAY FOOTBALL FAN
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
TAL OM A GAY FOOTBALL FAN
* gay football celebration *
Wele to the plight of a gay sports fan! My teemed lleague Cyd Zeigler wrote last week about the annoyg stereotype that gay men have to be “masc” to watch the Super Bowl. As a rult, I often take on a self-pretg tone when discsg my sports fandom, lamentg how I am the “worst gay ever” bee I n more easily name the Red Sox’s startg ne than the latt nttants on “Drag Race.
I have my gay sports iends to thank.
My foray to the gay world began when I joed Boston’s LGBTQ flag football league 2016. I started datg men three years prr, but until then, my gay life basilly end the bedroom. The faiari eased my trepidatns about enterg a gay space.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
I’ve experienced so many important gay firsts wh my football iends: drag shows, weddgs, viss to Montreal’s Gay Village. I’m not sayg there are right and wrong ways to be gay, of urse. Co-founr Jim Buzski recently wrote about a new survey that found 30 percent of gay men and 40 percent of lbians intify as “passnate sports fans.
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. Football is gay. Acrdg to a report OutSports, the vio -- entled Football Is for Everyone -- is meant not jt to support Carl Nassib, the first active NFL player to e out as gay, but also let other players, as well as LGBTQ+ fans, know they're jt as important and wele.