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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
• NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
• CHIEFS STARTG LB WILLIE GAY SPEND 4 GAM BY NFL
• KANSAS CY CHIEFS STARTG LB WILLIE GAY SPEND FOUR GAM
• CHIEFS’ WILLIE GAY ARRTED FOR MISMEANOR CRIMAL DAMAGE
• NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO
• CHIEFS' WILLIE GAY: POSTS REER-BT MPAIGN 2022
• KANSAS CY CHIEFS' WILLIE GAY ARRTED ON MISMEANOR CHARGE OF CRIMAL PROPERTY DAMAGE
• CHIEFS' WILLIE GAY JR. SPEND FOUR GAM FOR VLATG LEAGUE'S PERSONAL NDUCT POLICY
• CHIEFS’ WILLIE GAY GETS PROMISG JURY UPDATE AHEAD OF SUPER BOWL VS. EAGL
• CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS
• NFL SPENDS CHIEFS’ WILLIE GAY FOUR GAM
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• CHIEFS' WILLIE GAY ARRTED MISMEANOR CRIMAL DAMAGE SE AHEAD OF DIVISNAL ROUND GAME WH BILLS
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR

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

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. -- 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.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

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.

Jacksonville Jaguars' Kev Maxen has ma the public statement "to be vol support of people livg how they want to live, but I also want to jt live and not feel fear about how people will react"; Maxen is the first male ach a major Amerin sports league to e out as gay.

Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major Amerin sports league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St Louis Rams selected him 2021, Carl Nassib, then wh the Las Vegas Rairs, beme the first active NFL player to e out publicly.

NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRairs’ Carl Nassib Announc He’s Gay, an N.F.L. FirstThe Rairs fensive leman me out a statement posted to his Instagram acunt on Monday, beg the first active player the league to publicly intify as gay.ViotranscripttranscriptCarl Nassib Be First Openly Gay Active N.F.L.

I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay.

CHIEFS STARTG LB WILLIE GAY SPEND 4 GAM BY NFL

Player to publicly clare that he is gay.“I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay,” Nassib said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt. I actually hope that like one day vios like this and the whole g-out procs are jt not necsary, but until then I’m gog to do my bt and my part to cultivate a culture that’s acceptg, that’s passnate,” before addg that he would donate $100,000 to The Trevor Project, a nonprof group that foc on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth.“Sadly, I have agonized over this moment for the last 15 years,” he wrote the same post.Nassib, a five-year N.F.L.

KANSAS CY CHIEFS STARTG LB WILLIE GAY SPEND FOUR GAM

Players Associatn also said a Twter post that he and the unn supported Nassib.Nassib’s announcement, ma durg Pri Month, is a signifint turng pot for the N.F.L., and mak him the first openly gay active player the league’s 101-year history.“Sports are, many ways, one of the last bastns of a place where homophobia n thrive,” said Cathy Renna, a spokwoman for the Natnal L.G.B.T.Q.

CHIEFS’ WILLIE GAY ARRTED FOR MISMEANOR CRIMAL DAMAGE

Athlet who me before him.”Michael Sam, an all-Amerin fensive leman at Missouri, had been viewed as the most likely to acquire that distctn when he announced he is gay before he beg chosen by the Rams the seventh round of the 2014 N.F.L.

The Dallas Cowboys signed Sam to their practice squad, but he never played a regular season game.ImageCred...LM Otero/Associated PrsSam’s draft stat was seen as a barometer of whether the climate of men’s pro sports was beg more acceptg of gay athlet, particularly bee Febary 2014 the N.B.A.

Had jt bee the first of the four tradnal major Amerin men’s sports leagu to have an openly gay active player when Jason Colls joed the Nets.But Sam left the N.F.L.

NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO

Players had prevly announced publicly that they were gay, but all after their playg reers were over. David Kopay beme the first pro football player to publicly e out as gay 1975, three years after he retired. He played for ne seasons wh the San Francis 49ers and four other teams the 1960s and 1970s, and has sce bee an activist and an ambassador for the Gay Gam, a quadrennial sportg event.Roy Simmons was the send former player to announce that he was gay, dog so 1992 after his reer wh the Giants and Washgton Football Team had end.

Simmons said he cultivated a reputatn for beg the life of the party, and had to partmentalize his football life and his personal life.Simmons also said he never would have clared himself gay durg the four seasons he played for the N.F.L. You are gladiators; you are male; you kick butt.”In recent years, the league has publicly supported Pri Month through promotnal efforts like changg official social media avatars to clu rabows and supportg the You Can Play Project, which provis rourc to enurage clivy youth sports, even as some players have ma rogatory statements about gay people wh ltle penalty or supported groups that oppose gay rights.ImageCred...Steve Wewerka for The New York TimIn 2013, Chris Culliver of the San Francis 49ers and Chris Clemons of the Seattle Seahawks ma offensive ments when asked about the prospect of havg a gay teammate.“Got no gay people on the team,” Culliver said.

CHIEFS' WILLIE GAY: POSTS REER-BT MPAIGN 2022

They were very ugly ments.”San Francis nng back Garrison Hearst apologized 2002 for g a slur and sayg he wouldn’t want a gay player as a teammate. His ment me after the former Mnota Vikgs player Esera Tuaolo publicly me out as gay that year after he had retired.

Players like Brendon Ayanbajo, who played wh the Baltimore Ravens, fend same-sex marriage and gay rights and supported Sam at the time. Player to Announce He’s Gay.

KANSAS CY CHIEFS' WILLIE GAY ARRTED ON MISMEANOR CHARGE OF CRIMAL PROPERTY DAMAGE

Gay's reprentative, Maxx Lepselter, said at the time that Gay broke a vacuum that belonged to the mother of his son durg an argument which nobody was agreed to a diversn program June to rolve the crimal was no appeal of the penalty, so Gay will miss Sunday's game Indianapolis along wh gam agast Tampa Bay, Las Vegas and l prohib him om teractg wh the team durg the first two Chiefs, who parted wh veteran Anthony Hchens after last season, are untg heavily on Gay to help solidify the lebacker spot alongsi send-year pro.

CHIEFS' WILLIE GAY JR. SPEND FOUR GAM FOR VLATG LEAGUE'S PERSONAL NDUCT POLICY

Gay started their first two gam agast the Cardals and Chargers and is tied for send on the team tackl, tackl for loss and pass fend.

“I fely feel like my role has creased, ” Gay acknowledged durg trag mp. ”Third-round pick Leo Chenal is the likelit ndidate to replace Gay the lp.

-- Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay has been spend by the NFL for four gam for a vlatn of the league's personal nduct was arrted January Overland Park, Kansas, on a charge of crimal property damage of ls than $1, 000, a 's spensn will beg immediately. He will miss gam agast the Colts, Bucneers, Rairs and Bills and is eligible to return after the Week 6 game agast agreed over the summer to enter a diversn program to rolve the crimal the next two weeks, acrdg to NFL l, Gay is prohibed om enterg the Chiefs' practice facily or havg any ntact wh team officials. Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay was arrted for a mismeanor on Wednday was arrted at around 10:30 p.

CHIEFS’ WILLIE GAY GETS PROMISG JURY UPDATE AHEAD OF SUPER BOWL VS. EAGL

Overland Park, Kansas, a mismeanor crimal damage se, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office said, via has been no rmatn about the tails of the charg agast Gay, who was booked to the Johnson County Detentn Center and remas there awag 23-year-old Gay was a send-round draft pick 2020 and is a starter, although Sunday’s game agast the Steelers he logged his fewt snaps of the season, and there were qutns after the game about why he didn’t play more. In a vio shared on Twter on Monday, the Natnal Football League clared, "Football is gay.

"In whe letters on a black background, the word "gay" was then replaced wh words cludg "lbian, " "betiful, " "queer, " "transgenr, " "power" and "life. Nassib is the first active NFL player to e out as gay.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS

Gay racked up five tackl the 31-13 w over the Rairs Week only played 56 percent of the fensive snaps the regular-season fale, his lowt total sce Week 7, likely as a preutnary measure wh the playoffs loomg and the Chiefs leadg fortably the ntt. In addn to a reer-high 88 tackl (51 solo) 2022, Gay piled reer-bt outputs of 2. Gay remas unr ntract wh Kansas Cy through the 2023 mpaign, at which pot the Chiefs will have some cisns to make, wh several ntributg players at or near the end of their rpective rookie als.

-- Kansas Cy Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay on Thursday afternoon plead not guilty to a mismeanor charge of crimal property damage of ls than $1, 000 after he was arrted Wednday night by, 23, was released om the tentn center Johnson County, Kansas on Thursday 's agents, Maxx Lepsettler and Ryan Rub, said a statement that Gay was visg his son when he got to an argument wh the child's mother, who lled police. A police report timated the total property damage at $225 for a vacuum cleaner, cellphone screen protector, humidifier and damage to a wall and door mother of Gay's 3-month-old son has requted a civil protectn orr, which means Gay is not allowed to have ntact wh eher of them until the se is heard by a civil Class B non-person mismeanor "nstut a domtic vlence offense, " acrdg to urt rerds. ''Gay, the Chiefs' send-round draft pick 2020, started 11 gam this season pl the Chiefs' wild-rd round playoff w last weekend agast the Ptsburgh Steelers.

Earlier this season, Gay spoke about his stggl wh mental health, sayg that he was "gog through some thgs, man, '' but that he wanted to be an example for other NFL players that keep such issu bottled up by beg open and hont about them. Kansas Cy Chiefs startg lebacker Willie Gay Jr.

NFL SPENDS CHIEFS’ WILLIE GAY FOUR GAM

At the time of the cint, Gay's reprentative, Maxx Lepselter, said Gay was visg his son when the argument occurred.

Acrdg to Lepselter, Gay broke the mother of his son's vacuum and was charged wh stctn of property of ls than $1, June, Gay agreed to a pre-trial diversn program, which clus mental health unselg. The four gam Gay will miss e agast the Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Bucneers Las Vegas Rairs and Buffalo Bills. 23 when the Chiefs face the San Francis 49ers Week two gam played this season, Gay had 16 tackl, two tackl for a loss, two fend pass and one h on the quarterback.

The Chiefs recently promoted lebackers Elijah Lee and Jack Cochrane off the practice squad -- two players who will help provi pth whout Gay. Thankfully for Kansas Cy, they n expect to have Willie Gay ready to go spe an jured his shoulr the AFC Champnship Game but is optimistic that he will be ready for the Super Bowl, acrdg to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.

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Havg Gay the lp will be huge for Kansas Cy.

*Wear the moment: Get ready for the Super Bowl wh Chiefs gear om BreakgT*Makg the Super Bowl even more of a special ocsn for Gay is the fact that he will be facg off wh A. The former high school teammat won a state champnship together at Starkville High School and now will be playg on oppose sis of the biggt stage the Chiefs ntue to monor Patrick Mahom' ankle jury, they n at least take solace the fact that Willie Gay should be pletely good to go for the big game.

Sce Gay was a rookie when the Chiefs lost the Super Bowl to the Tampa Bay Bucneers, he will be eager to play a part brgg the Lombardi Trophy back to Kansas Cy. “I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the fensive leman for the Las Vegas Rairs said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt Monday. And while someone g out 2021 might not feel like a big al, wh that simple statement, Nassib beme the first openly gay active player NFL that simple statement, Nassib beme the first openly gay active player NFL history.

CHIEFS' WILLIE GAY ARRTED MISMEANOR CRIMAL DAMAGE SE AHEAD OF DIVISNAL ROUND GAME WH BILLS

Though there are many openly queer women profsnal sports, the same nnot be said for homophobia of men’s sports culture has been well documented. Ranks the worst when to homophobia athletics.

Currently, there is only one openly gay player on a profsnal men’s team the “big five” Amerin sports: Soccer player Coll Mart of the USL Champnship League (Mart me out 2018 as a member of Major League Soccer’s Mnota Uned) NFL has existed for 101 years, and that time, there has never been a player on an active NFL roster who has publicly acknowledged his gayns. This, of urse, don’t mean there haven’t been closeted gay players. In 2014, Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted by an NFL team, when the St.

(In 2015, he beme the first openly gay player the Canadian Football League when he spent a season wh the Montreal Alouett. This is where misogyny to play, maniftg a culture of homophobia.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

To be a gay man is to face beg stereotyped as weak or effemate — the oppose of what a football player, or an athlete, is “supposed” to be.

““In llege, football was a great ver for beg gay, ” O’Callaghan told Outsports 2017. ” Davis remembers spendg $1, 500 at a strip club an attempt to nceal the fact that he was gay om his spe society’s evolvg attus, the sports world seems to be movg far slower to mornize and stigmatize.

GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR

“I thk ’s safe to say there’s at least one on every team who is eher gay or bisexual, ” O’Callaghan speculated 2019. Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay has been spend for the next four gam for vlatg the NFL’s personal nduct was charged wh mismeanor crimal property damage January after an cint at the home where the mother of his child liv.

He agreed to a diversn program to nclu the se Gay’s January arrt, he ntued to start for the Chiefs the playoffs, and he has started both gam for the Chiefs this will miss the Chiefs’ upg gam agast the Colts, Bucneers, Rairs and Bills.

Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay Jr. Gay was released om the Johnson County Detentn Center on $1, 000 bond.