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• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• DO CAMP MEAN GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE 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

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.

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.

” Yet, readg Sontag’s say, seems that even she was at tim elud by the ceptive simplicy of the Nyong'o embrac a mp sensibily her flamboyant stume for the Met Gala (Cred: Getty Imag)The first English fn of the term, which appeared a 1909 edn of the Oxford English Dictnary, nformed to popular, ntemporary notns of mp: “ostentat, exaggerated, affected, theatril; effemate or homosexual; pertag to, characteristic of, homosexuals…” If not synonymo wh stereotypil male homosexualy, was, as per one of the OED fns, strongly associated wh . “Camp to me ually meant, you know, someone gay wh a bent wrist, ” says Rhos. It was Wil’s stigmatised body, ” he tells BBC Digned, “whose trials for ‘gross cency’ 1895 typified the ‘homosexual’, which provid a grammar of mp as a twisted form of atheticism that largely (if directly) meant sexual viance.

”Camp which knows self to be Camp (‘mpg’) is ually ls satisfyg – San SontagYet mp, to Sontag, transcend homosexual mannerisms.

DO CAMP MEAN GAY

“The word has changed s foc, ” says Rhos, who also believ that the Met exhibn, which one of her signs is beg featured, “[isn’t] meant to add to homosexualy at all” has been suggted that the word ‘mp’ riv om ‘se mper’, meang ‘to posture boldly’Cardi B's long-traed outf for the Met Gala embodi mp flamboyance (Cred: Getty Imag)So what do ‘mp’ mean where Not on Fashn is ncerned? A pk su by Bertrand Guyon for Schiaparelli tumn/wter 2017 featur flamgo (Cred: Metropolan Mm of Art/ Johnny Dufort)That said, mp here still retas s ial, longstandg affiliatn wh male homosexualy.

Walter van Beirendonck’s sprg/summer 2009 male bodysu, plete wh mcle tails and the outle of a sizeable phall, is a se pot, as is Jeremy Stt’s sprg/summer 2012 ensemble of a ged waistat, chaps and leather unrpants – all lurid pk and green wh black tailg – that brgs to md the Village People wboy and the homoerotic work of Fnish artist Tom of seems the fns provid by the OED more than a century ago, wh their homosexual associatns, still hold to a large gree.

Sontag, who emphasised the theatril, flamboyant aspect of mp above all else, has, says Cleto “been acced of -gayifyg mp, of betrayg s gay secret by divulgg [to] the ted class. ” Yet even Sontag admted that “[male] homosexuals, by and large, nstute the vanguard – and the most articulate dience of – Camp”.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

However the word “mp” n also refer to a place where people go to have fun like a summer mp or a when someone asks if mp means gay they uld be askg if the exaggerated and theatril behavr monly associated wh mp culture is exclively done by gay people. It was first ed as a phemism for homosexual before eventually beg associated wh the more flamboyant and outrageo members of the the word “mp” n be ed to scribe both straight and LGBTQIA+ people is most monly ed relatn to queer culture. This is likely bee mp is often seen as a form of Ristance agast the heteronormative and bary while there is no five answer to the qutn “do mp mean gay?

What are some mon stereotyp about “mp” gay men? ” In terms of LGBTQ+ culture “mp” n refer to “a flamboyant or exaggerated form of gay exprsn. “ What are some mon stereotyp about “mp” gay men?

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Some mon stereotyp about “mp” gay men clu that they are effemate flamboyant and over-the-top. Some cricisms of “mp” clu that is a stereotype that rerc harmful ias about gay men that is a form of self-opprsn and that is a performance that ultimately benefs straight people more than queer people. 'Camp' origated the gay slang Polari (as ma famo by 'Julian and Sandy' - Kenh Williams and Hugh Paddick - the 60s BBC rad programme 'Round the Horne').

Or for that matter, when did "gay" e to mean homosexual?

Tony Warren, Behd Closed Doors (about a young gay lad growg up post war Bra), has a character fe mp as "to stand out agast an already theatril background".

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Major profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay. Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Sce 1997, ‘Camp’ Camp — Ameri’s premier summer mp for LGBTQ adults — has offered a fun and distctive vatn for the gay, lbian, bisexual & transgenr muny. Loted scenic southwtern Mae, ‘Camp’ Camp is the perfect alternative vatn for adventuro members of the LGBTQ muny lookg for a unique vatn optn beyond the ual gay cise or rort.

Wh a wi variety of tradnal summer activi such as mounta bikg, pottery, hikg, lake swimmg, sailg, staed glass, noeg, and softball — along wh offergs geared towards our adult gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer Campers such as Broadway dance, LGBTQ history, and figure drawg — you’re sure to fd somethg to keep you active and challenged, returng home relaxed and renewed. Sce s ceptn, Camp has grown to a muny of people — people who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, or somewhere between (and even a few who intify as straight as well) — who enjoy a variety of social, athletic and cultural activi together throughout the year. The earlit known e of the word "mp" (outsi of the tents-and-sleepg-bags meang, that is) was 1909, when appeared "homosexual slang, " not Merriam-Webster.

The language began to fall out of e after homosexualy was crimalized Bra 1967.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

In 1994’s The Polics and Poetics of Camp, cric Moe Meyer acced Sontag’s say of “removg, or at least mimizg, the nnotatns of homosexualy” om mp, and fed mp as “strategi and tactics of queer parody. ” Sontag do mentn the fluence of queer culture on mp, but not until near the end of her say, when she not, "one feels that if homosexuals hadn’t more or ls vented Camp, someone else would.