Jaguars' Kev Maxen First Male Coach to Come Out as Gay U.S. Sports

Contents:

• WHICH GAY/LBIAN ATHETIC IS MOST LIKE YOU?
• "YOU OUT-GAYED THE GAYS": GAY ATHETIC POWER AND LBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER WOMEN LGBTQ SPAC
• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
• IS THERE A ‘GAY ATHETIC’ TO POP MIC?
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

WHICH GAY/LBIAN ATHETIC IS MOST LIKE YOU?

Fellow gays! What would be your rponse to someone sayg somethg homophobic to you?

"YOU OUT-GAYED THE GAYS": GAY ATHETIC POWER AND LBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER WOMEN LGBTQ SPAC

"You out-gayed the gays": Gay athetic power and lbian, bisexual, and queer women LGBTQ spac. In lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) spac, gay male practic, sexuali, and prri often domate. I argue that mixed-genr LGBTQ ftival spac the South, gay athetics are normative, which often mimiz the ntributns of lbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women.

I argue that at the events, gay athetic power is exerted through the expectatn that LBQ women should master the athetics, a dynamic that often reli on gay men as arbers of succsful mastery. Genr; athetic power; ftivals; gay; genred labor; lbian; power; queer.

Microaggrsns Toward Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Genrqueer People: A Review of the Lerature. A Natnal Analysis of State Polici on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Qutng/Queer Inclive Sex Edutn. “And she answered, ‘Probably not as much as gay men.’ ” Whether or not this assertn stands up to scty, “A Queer History of Fashn: From the Closet to the Catwalk” — a pneerg show curated by Ms.

GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

Steele and her lleague, Fred Dennis — mak a gent se for a more balanced view of fashn history, one that, given the wily held perceptn that gay men domate fashn, has curly tend to skew heterosexual and male. Steele add, “Was how are you to gog to monstrate that there is a gay athetic?” That was the task when they began anizg the show two years ago, wh ltle to go on but a termatn to rtore to a proper place history the untls lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people who, whout qutn, ntributed greatly to fashn. Somehow, gay men and lbians were left out of most official acunts of fashn history, Ms.

“This was our attempt to wre them back to history.”Coverg three centuri through 100 garments, “Queer History of Fashn” intifi and chronicl the hidn--pla-sight prence of “queers” (the curators’ preferred term) — om the flamboyant 18th-century personag known as molli, to 20th-century avatars of butch lbian elegance, gay clon, drag queens and marquee signers whose open-secret sexualy was long kept ncealed. In the age of gay marriage, n seem almost implsible that signers like Christian Dr, Bill Blass, Halston and untls others spent their profsnal liv the closet, or that homophobia was rampant a field where stereotyp have long held that many creative typ were gay.“We said, ‘Maybe the are jt stereotyp and nobody wants to be stereotyped, but anyway let’s explore ,’ ” Ms. “If you don’t, you’re perpetuatg the practice of ‘ng.’ ”ImageCred...Mm at F.I.T.Durg tim which their sexualy was not jt unwele but often illegal, gay men, bisexuals and lbians improvised a social theater most notably exprsed, Ms.

“But then, when you looked more eply to the history, you found the proto-gay cultur ci like London, Paris, Amsterdam.”Combg through 18th-century acunts, Ms. You really uldn’t make this stuff up.” (In fact, you wouldn’t need to, sce the gay historian Rictor Norton thoroughly explored this particular gay subculture a 1992 book, “Mother Clap’s Molly Hoe.”)Enlightenment liberaly only went so far, though, and durg a 1710 purge, the London police padlocked the molly ho and jailed their patrons. And that grim fact n be found sight to the necsy for visg systems of vert signs and symbols, visual s gay people improvised rponse to opprsn.

IS THERE A ‘GAY ATHETIC’ TO POP MIC?

Whether there evolved out of this a “gay athetic” is arguable, though n certaly be supposed that gay and lbian people may historilly have found a haven fashn bee, as Ms. Steele suggted, offered “a chance to create another world reactn to a homophobic society.” In all likelihood, many found their way to fashn bee the doors to more-nservative profsns were barred to them.

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

Steele add, notg that Dr, the great French uturier, never me out for fear of shockg his mother; that the Atrian-born novator Rudi Gernreich, a gay activist private life, never dared e out publicly for fear of portatn; that the visnary Brish fashn edor Madge Garland was shiered by Brish Vogue when her sexualy was revealed. Even the award-wng ntemporary signer Narciso Rodriguez once briefly nsired abandong a reer fashn, as he explas an say the talog for the exhibn, bee his parents were alarmed that he would “go gay” if he did. “The perceptn now is that gay is O.K.

“Even as a gay man, I don’t know my own history,” he said.Joel Sanrs, the archect and queer theorist who signed the exhibn, said: “As outsirs, as queers, gays and lbians have always had to have feelers out, to be more aware of d signifiers.” Every era, other words, had s “tell”: There were red neckti the 1890s, bleached hair the 1930s, hatbands the 1940s, Levi’s the 1970s — crotch sand by the wearer to enhance genal display.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

To suggt the implic reciprol relatnship between gay culture and high fashn, Mr. Beneath ns a purple platform for displayg styl associated directly wh gay subcultur: fashn’s straight ego and s lavenr id.

“Bill was one of the first openly gay men men’s wear, the Donna Karan of men,” Mr. It was important to track gay prence and mark s progrs out of the closet.

“You n’t unrstand fashn until you put those gay people back .” The curator psed. Then he said, “You have to ask yourself, would there be a Tommy Hilfiger if Perry Ellis had lived?”A versn of this article appears prt on  , Sectn E, Page 10 of the New York edn wh the headle: In Search of a Gay Athetic.