The league released the affirmatnal vio support of Carl Nassib, the first active NFL football player to e out as gay, as well as to reach out to the LGBTQ+ muny.
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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
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * 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.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
The faiari eased my trepidatns about enterg a gay space. 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.