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Contents:

• GAY PEOPLE WHO E OUT LATER LIFE FACE UNIQUE OBSTACL
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

GAY PEOPLE WHO E OUT LATER LIFE FACE UNIQUE OBSTACL

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

“It’s eher you faced sane amounts of profany — like the F-word was thrown around all the time — or you would get your a-- kicked if you were gay.

”Colton UnrwoodColton Unrwood durg an terview New York Gerard Haton / APFormer “Bachelor” star and NFL player Colton Unrwood shocked fans when he revealed that he is gay a taped terview on ABC's “Good Morng Ameri” April.

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

And I’m gay, and I me to terms wh that earlier this year, and I’ve been procsg and the next step all of this was sort of lettg people know, ” Unrwood, 29, told anchor Rob Roberts. Unrwood add that he knew he was gay his hman year of high school, but his Catholic upbrgg and affy for sports ma him supprs his sexualy. “I me out as gay before I transned.

I me out as transgenr and then I me out as gay aga, ” she said. ”Archuleta, who fished send the seventh season of “Amerin Idol, ” said at the time that he origally me out to his fay as gay 2014, but that he is not sure how he intifi an Augt terview wh, Archuleta said that a nversatn he had wh God phed him to e out publicly. Harry How / Getty ImagLas Vegas Rairs’ fensive end Carl Nassib me out as gay June makg him the first active NFL player to e out publicly.

“I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib, 28, said a vio he posted on Instagram. Barry Kg / WireImage - Getty Imag fileQueen of Halloween, Elvira, also known as actor Cassandra Peterson, revealed her September memoir that she's been a nearly two- relatnship wh a a September terview wh People magaze, Peterson, who has long been nsired a gay in and started her reer as a drag queen a Colorado nightclub, said she was worried that her LGBTQ fans would be disappoted wh her when she me out.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

Marissa Baecker / Getty Imag fileNashville Predators’ Le Prokop announced he is gay July, makg him the first openly gay active NHL player when the season began this month. The signatn started 1988 on the first anniversary of the send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights October 1987.

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KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

That’s not to ny so many amazg shifts public attus, laws, polici, but did not wash away a hundred years of homophobia society, ” said Ilan Meyer, a distguished senr scholar of public policy wh the Williams Mueller, 75, who grew up suburban Chigo and now liv Iowa, didn’t breathe a word of his sexual orientatn to his fay until he was 40, when he wanted them to meet his partner.

“Beg homosexual, you’re jt gog to go straight to hell.