Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- BUT WERE THEY GAY? THE MYSTERY OF SAME-SEX LOVE THE 19TH CENTURY
- PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAY UPL THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
- GAY RIGHTS
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
BUT WERE THEY GAY? THE MYSTERY OF SAME-SEX LOVE THE 19TH CENTURY
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"Walt Whman and Gay Liberatn are nearly synonymo for me, " wrote cultural historian Rictor Norton a 1999 say. "It's hard to image any morn poet wrg about lyg another man's arms and then llg homosexualy "damnable.
""The thg we don't know about any of the people, " says Peggy Wishart, "is the qutn most morn people have: Were they gay? " By 1911, there was enough awarens of homosexualy that when Fields pulled together a posthumo volume of Jewett's letters, edor Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe urged her to censor out the pet nam.
PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAY UPL THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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But as Reynolds says, "It's absolutely wrong to impose today's versn of homosexualy on Whman or Jewett. 15 Old-Timey Nam for 'Gay'. Before 'gay' beme mon and accepted parlance, the world vented s own unofficial terms for men who dug men.
GAY RIGHTS
Some nam were self-created and others were thst, often celly, upon gay, bi, and queer men. A mon, mostly nocuo term of the middle of the 20th century ed among gay and bi men.
This one not not only homosexualy but effemacy. Brish, possibly om the gay subculture language Polari. There is still a gay tourg agency lled Uranian Travel.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
The Nance was a gay burlque character that was a staple of the tim.
Liberal Party, was acced of havg a homosexual affair wh Norman Stt, a mol (above right). Brish (they seem to have as many words for gay as Alaskans do for ice).