Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer.
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- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- JASON COLLS ME OUT 10 YEARS AGO, HERG A PERD OF CREASG GAY VISIBILY MEN’S SPORTS
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.
Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Sce Jim Buzski and I started Outsports 1999, we’d talked about an active gay player the Big Four — MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL — g out publicly.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY
A young, gay Black athlete om the Midwt was an important summ attene that year. They each happened to be gay. Yet was that private moment wh that young gay Black athlete that my rpect multiplied.
Colls has seen the effects of beg out the sport firsthand, talkg repeatedly about one of his former teammat who ed anti-gay slurs the locker room eventually beg a supporter. When athlet e out the locker room, the “sual homophobia” of locker-room talk often subsis.
Few gay pro athlet have e out men’s sports the last 7 years. In 10 years, Colls remas the only active NBA player to e out publicly (Bill Kennedy is an active gay NBA referee who is out; player John Amaechi me out after retirg). When Rogers me out MLS, Michael Sam me out the NFL and Colls me out, I was nvced this was the begng of a seri of gay and bi athlet who would e out publicly men’s pro sports.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Sce those three gay pro athlet me out the urse of a year, only two active athlet big-time Amerin men’s pro sports have e out publicly while on a team: Coll Mart MLS and Carl Nassib the NFL. They've crossed paths on the Phoenix karaoke circu before, but only recently did a iend tell him Kennedy's name and what he do for a most refere at the big league level, Kennedy don't seek the spotlight, but found him last December, when he publicly clared his sexual inty as a gay man a few days after the league spend Rajon Rondo for llg Kennedy a "motherfuckg faggot. " Though NBA staff, fellow officials and numero players and ach have known for years that Kennedy is gay, the announcement stantly ma him a public figure.
13, tellg Yahoo Sports, "I am proud to be an NBA referee, and I am proud to be a gay man. He tells Kennedy he was the bt man at his gay 's weddg.
And a crowd whose energy was wang before the microphone found s way to Kennedy has been drawn to the man who, jt an hour ago, was visible to referee Bill Kennedy scrib the challeng he faced on and off the urt as a gay manAfter Rajon Rondo berated NBA referee Bill Kennedy wh an anti-gay slur durg a game last season, Kennedy publicly revealed that he was gay. Kennedy talks about the fears he lived wh as a closeted gay man and the reactn he received om the York/AP PhotoFOR A MOMENT that stands as a watershed event Kennedy's life -- and arguably the history of gay people profsnal sports -- the cint at the Palace of Auburn Hills is shroud mystery. He knew that an ter mor -- or even a news story -- on a gay NBA referee might not be a fireable offense, but the acpanyg chatter was exactly the kd of attentn he wanted to avoid.
JASON COLLS ME OUT 10 YEARS AGO, HERG A PERD OF CREASG GAY VISIBILY MEN’S SPORTS
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"Like many gay men, Kennedy existed somewhere between the closet and daylight durg his early adult years. Though he wasn't out Ref World, there was a tac "don't ask, don't tell" policy between Kennedy and his iends, who operated unr the assumptn that he is gay.
And so Kennedy, forced to disclose his sexual inty to the league office New York to save his reer, proceed to spend the next 15 years gog about the bs of the bifurted life of a gay referee. He might not have clared himself openly gay, but when did refere publicly clare anythg about themselv?