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Contents:
- KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACH NFL
- GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
- WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, DC
- D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
- D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
- WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACH NFL
Maxen is the first known openly gay male ach U.S. profsnal sports. * gay in dc *
Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen me out publicly as gay Thursday, makg him the first known openly gay male ach the NFL and men’s profsnal sports the Uned Stat. RAIDERS' CARL NASSIB ON COMING OUT GAY: ‘I DIDN’T KNOW IF IT WOULD RUIN MY CAREER' "It wasn’t until recently — and wh the immense love and support of my fay, my iends, lleagu and peers, and the urage and sacrifice om my partner — that I realized I have the right and rponsibily to love and be loved, and that maybe sharg this will hopefully give someone else the strength to accept their own life and take ntrol of their own story, " Maxen explaed. In the NFL, Tampa Bay Bucneers fensive leman Carl Nassib beme the league’s first openly gay active player when he ma his announcement 2021 while playg for the Las Vegas Rairs.
GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
The natn's pal is home to a lively LGBTQ nightlife scene wh plenty of gay and lbian bars jt wag for you to drk, dance and play. Disver DC's bt spots. * gay in dc *
San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers was the first woman and openly gay ach a Super Bowl 2020. Tour historic LGBTQ+ s, grab a drk at the bt gay and lbian bars the cy, rock out at Capal Pri and so much more.
The natn's pal is home to a lively LGBTQ+ nightlife scene wh plenty of gay and lbian bars jt wag for you to jo on the fun. Larry’s Lounge is a gay neighborhood pub, wh always-affordable drks, solid happy hour specials, mouth-waterg pub fare (see: sweet potato tots) and one of the cy’s iendlit pats (you n brg your dog, too! Number Ne to the btlg Logan Circle urty of -founr Ed Bailey, who helped DC’s gay nightlife scene to grow durg his days as a DJ.
Suated right the heart of Adams Man’s btlg 18th Street is Pchers, a gay sports bar, and A League of Her Own, the adjacent bar for lbian and queer women. A 2017 photo of the Internatnal Homomonument at The Hague. A monument the Netherlands that is dited to LGBTQ people who have been persecuted due to their sexual orientatn has been vandalized wh anti-gay graffi.
WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
The Internatnal Homomonument, a monument that honors people persecuted for their sexual orientatn, was vandalized wh anti-gay graffi. * gay in dc *
The Internatnal Homomonument on the Koekamp, a seven-meter tall steel sculpture, is signed to memorate all people who have been persecuted or opprsed bee of their sexual orientatn, both at the prent time and the past. The graffi pated at the monument se and on the bench clud drawgs and anti-gay slogans, cludg “fuck gays, ’ “fuck Pri, ” and “weg met pri, ” or “down wh Pri.
“It is a ser form of vandalism that stems om homophobia, ” she said, acrdg to the NL Tim. “The Homomonument is a symbol of acceptance and eedom.
The vandalism of the Homomonument follows a strg of homophobic attacks on property across the Netherlands recent months. In April, a group of about 20 adults attacked a buildg where a group of gay teens were meetg, beatg up a volunteer workg wh the teens and attemptg to set fire to a rabow flag hangg om the buildg’s exterr while shoutg anti-gay slurs.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
Wh our LGBT gui to Washgton, DC, disver all the bt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr bars, clubs, nightlife and more * gay in dc *
Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U.
Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.
LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, DC
* gay in dc *
Rawls, a dited philanthropist, donat a portn of the tour fee to the Gay Men’s Chos of Washgton, DC. DC’s first gay sports bar opens for bs at 3 p. Or pick a theme night at JR’s: the longtime gay bar do Retro Fridays, Sunday Fundays and even drag-themed trivia on Wednday nights.
Kameny, an astronomer by tra, beme a gay rights activist when he was fired om the U.
The LGBTQ+-iendly Embassy Row Hotel is a member of the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Travel Associatn and was named “one of the bt rooftop pools Ameri” by USA Today. The District's only 100 percent gay-owned brewery, 's also one of the newt addn to the cy’s lol craft beer scene.
D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
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Wh some of the most polilly and socially active LGBT muni the natn, the District has been the birthplace for many movements and anizatns, such as the Mattache Society of Washgton and the Gay Men’s Chos of Washgton, D.
Certaly, the District do not tend to be the first cy that to md when nsirg the untry’s most LGBT-iendly ci, pecially when many of the hate-filled mpaigns the 1950s that hoped to crack down on those who were gay were lnched by police and feral officials centered the District. Dpe this, there have been several people, march, and headquarters the cy that have bolstered the polil strength of the LGBT muny, such as the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights 1979.
D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
This two-story, red brick Colonial Revival property was once the home and office of the father of gay activism, Dr.
It also served as a headquarters for gay civil rights anizg that eventually led to overturng the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's fn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Bullough’s “Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lbian Rights Historil Context” publitn, Kameny is scribed as "one of the most signifint figur" the Amerin gay rights movement. The buildg was signated a historic landmark 2009 for beg the epicenter of the gay rights movement Washgton, D.
WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
The very first gay rights monstratn at the Pentagon was held on July 31, 1965, acrdg to Beemyn their book, “A Queer Capal.
” Here, participants clud pneerg gay rights activists John Richard “Jack” Nichols, who -found the Mattache Society of Washgton, and Lilli Vcenz, who was the first lbian member of the Mattache Society of Washgton. This society that both activists were members of is known as one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the U.
This former bookstore Dupont Circle was found 1974 by Dean Maccubb, who ntributed to the migratn of LGBT members to the Northwt neighborhood, acrdg to Frank Muzzy his book, “Gay and Lbian Washgton, D.