Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen out as gay a first for US-based pro leagu – Wnipeg Free Prs

Contents:

• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• YOUR ULTIMATE GAY GUI FOR AN ACTN-PACKED VIS TO WNIPEG
• VAL & GAY LEA FOODS TO PROCS DAIRY MB
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS WNIPEG, MB
• GAY WNIPEG
• LGBTQ+ TREATMENT CENTR WNIPEG, MB

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

-based profsnal league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still crimalized. From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici.

Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

YOUR ULTIMATE GAY GUI FOR AN ACTN-PACKED VIS TO WNIPEG

It is hard for me as a gay this untry.

VAL & GAY LEA FOODS TO PROCS DAIRY MB

Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.

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

That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. “A man who is promiscuo, not publicly out, although everyone the bs knows he’s gay, who wants to be jt a normal guy, ” Gibbs said scribg his famo client.

You’d have to look all the way back to the 1920s to fd our first unrground gay tablishments – which you n, via the Universy of Manoba’s.

Manoba Gay/Lbian Archive’s Oral History Project. One of Wnipeg’s first notable gay bars was Club 654, a members only after-hours club where liquor was not sold.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS WNIPEG, MB

Unlike notor “raids” at other gay clubs ci across Canada, there were no raids at Wnipeg’s gay bars.

GAY WNIPEG

This tolerance has been attributed to the work of people like, the Honourable Ruth Krdle, the now retired judge who was stmental advotg LGBTQ2 rights, cludg beg unsel for Wnipeg’s first gay club 1969. It was also durg this time that the Manoba Gay Coaln was tablished, which clud anizatns om the more ral muni of Thompson and Brandon.

LGBTQ+ TREATMENT CENTR WNIPEG, MB

This program, which featured openly gay people, was pretty much unheard of at the time. Wnipeg’s first pri para took place on Sunday, Augt 2, 1987 on the heels of Manoba’s Human Rights Co -- which protected the rights of gays and lbians – beg past.

It was a huge moment Wnipeg’s proud 2SLGBTQ+ history, one that may only have been eclipsed when Glen Murray – an openly gay man who had spoke to Manoba’s legislature before the passg of The Human Rights Co – was elected mayor 1998. Celebrate the diverse muny that supports LGBTTQ* (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, two-spir, and queer) people.