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Contents:
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
- KIRK COS ON THE GAY TEAMMATE QUTN
- WARREN MOON HAD SEVERAL GAY TEAMMAT, SAYS IT WAS NOT AN ISSUE
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
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The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U.
While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U. When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports. It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * gay teammates *
Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. -based profsnal league to e out as gay.
THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
Players on 22 NFL teams have already had an out gay teammate, cludg six players wh the Arizona Cardals. * gay teammates *
Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. “The first time I ever admted to someone I was gay was ont of all 130 of my fellow teammat, ” one llege football player, who me out to teammat a ral area 2016, reported answerg the survey.
KIRK COS ON THE GAY TEAMMATE QUTN
Pl, 2019 Pan Am Gam gold medallist Tomas Gonzalez out as gay and a look back at Team France on the uneven bars at Athens 2004 * gay teammates *
“This reflects years of rearch that I have nducted on smaller sl, all showg athlet are more fortable wh gay teammat than most anyone thought possible, ” said Dr. “Athlet across sports and across genrs love their gay teammat, and they support their gay teammat, and this go beyond differenc of sexual orientatn.
“There were other gay women on the team, and they very much helped my g out procs, and watched out for me, so to speak.
“I have spent s achg at the hight levels of sports, the past 16 as an openly gay ach, ” said UCLA softball ach Kirk Walker. “In later years, I realized this was bee several of my teammat were closeted gays themselv, and directed their ire toward me. “After I me out to them they were tolerant, sometim publicly supportive, of me, and reaed om g the homophobic slurs ont of me.
WARREN MOON HAD SEVERAL GAY TEAMMAT, SAYS IT WAS NOT AN ISSUE
Followg the news this week that Jason Colls had e out as the NBA's first openly gay player, the issue of homosexualy sports has reached a crcendo. * gay teammates *
Given the imprsn of rejectn this language reprents, ’s even more important that people across sports redouble their efforts to end language perceived to be homophobic.