![]() ![]() Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male coach in a major American men’s pro sports league,” with WNBA coach Curt Miller, who publicly came out to the media as gay in 2015, also a publicly out male coach in an American professional sports league. I know our players and staff feel the same.” “I look forward to seeing Kevin next week at training camp, and hope that he comes to work each day during camp and through the season feeling confident, free and at peace. “Kevin is a Jacksonville Jaguar through and through, and a key member of our football team and community,” Khan said in a statement per ESPN. Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan released a statement to show his support for Maxen. Every Saturday we explain the headlines and a different underrepresented writer shares their unique queer gaze. QueerAF is a newsletter for LGBTQIA+ people who want to understand the news without doom scrolling for quality queer content. “And it should certainly not dictate what I feel I am capable of accomplishing.” Understand the ever-changing queer world. “As a Black Jew who has dated both men and women, who has been a strength coach at the highest level of professional football, I’ve learned that how I look, what I believe in, and especially who I am physically or emotionally attracted to should not impact the way I or other people view my worth. Maxen also touched on his journey before coming out and what he has learned along the way. Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player in league history to announce that he is gay in 2021. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players in NFL history to publicly come out as gay or bisexual. “I want the person I’m with to be able to share that with me.” “And I felt guilty that I couldn’t do the same thing, that I was letting myself down. “You have other coaches who have significant others, and they’re talking about their significant others,” Maxen said. The coach said he has been going out with his boyfriend Nick for over two years and wanted to be able to talk about his relationship publicly and share in conversations with fellow coaching staff. “I want to be vocal in support of people living how they want to live, but I also want to just live and not feel fear about how people will react.” “I don’t want to feel like I have to lie about who I am seeing, or why I am living with someone else. ![]() ![]() “I don’t want to feel like I have to think about it anymore,” Maxen told Outsports. In an interview with Outsports, the Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength coach said he no longer wanted to lie, as well as hoping to inspire others by publicly coming out. One such article submitted was ‘A Queen Is a Person Really’, a personal account of feeling excluded, as a drag queen, from movements like the GLF which seemed increasingly to dismiss the values of camp and effeminacy in gay men.Kevin Maxen has become the first male coach in a US men’s professional sports league to come out as gay. Come Together also welcomed reader contributions as a means of including more marginalised voices. Newsletter contents include book reviews, announcements concerning books, journals, conferences, seminars, symposia, fellowships, grants, and research membership information and updates news from the Committee’s Chair, and other material. Through its relationships with gay organizations in other countries, GFM also participated in subscription exchanges with newsletters such as the Gay Community. Established in 1945, by the early 1970s The Gateways’ promotion of the Butch/Femme dynamic was seen as out of step and as a reinforcement of the patriarchy by others in the LGBTQ+ community. Never shy of controversy, Come Together reported on the GLF’s campaign against the banning of ‘politics’ by one of the oldest lesbian bars in London, The Gateways. Work on Come Together was a collective experience and everyone who attended the Media Workshop had an equal say in what went in. Early editions were put together in members’ flats and assembled using collaging techniques, often combined with hand-drawn artwork, cartoons and sketches. Throughout its brief history Come Together charted the efforts of the GLF to raise awareness not just of LGBTQ+ issues but of many social justice movements. In the words of Come Together, the GLF were ‘seething with anger at this, the latest amongst hundreds of crimes committed against gay people by the police and the establishment’. One of its first issues covered the demonstration organised by the GLF in response to the treatment of the Young Liberal politician Louis Eaks, arrested for gross indecency for the ‘crime’ of approaching men on Highbury Fields to ask for a light. From its earliest beginnings the magazine reflected the key concerns of the LGBTQ+ community of the time. The newspaper of the Gay Liberation Front, Come Together, was formed by the GLF’s Media Workshop in 1970. ![]()
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