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Contents:

• LIST OF GAY UFC FIGHTERS (OUT & PROUD MEN & WOMEN)
• 30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
• PRI MONTH: WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY MALE MMA FIGHTERS?
• ABSOLUTE LEGENDS: THE GAY HERO OF THE BATTLE OF BRA
• GAY MMA ACH AND A CHAMPN WRTLER WS TOUGHT BATTLE BY G OUT
• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

LIST OF GAY UFC FIGHTERS (OUT & PROUD MEN & WOMEN)

From male and female gay UFC fighters to enuragg closet members to reveal their inty to the world, the MMA muny embrac Pri month a spectacular welg as the MMA is to LGBTQIA+ members, at the apex MMA promotn, rervatns persist regardg the acceptabily of members to the doubt LGBTQIA+ members abound the women’s UFC; is a different realy the UFC domated by article explor the realy of the LGBTQIA+ muny the UFC and also prents the list of male and female openly gay UFC fighters.

Before we lve to our list of UFC gay fighters, the recurrg qutn regardg why no gay fighter exists the male divisn of the promotn has to be fairly answered. In 2009 UFC print, Dana Whe was ptured a vio blog posted on the UFC webse which he took swiped at women and obsceny-lan vio was a rponse to a story by a longtime MMA reporter Loretta Hunt of, which he claimed rrectly reported on UFC polici and crentialg of managers and agents relatn to their vio stck the nerve of the members of the LGBTQIA+ muny, such as the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), who requted that Whe apologize. Though Dana Whe apologized, this was the first major ht potg to a rocky relatnship between the UFC as well as Whe and the gay there were doubts about Whe and the promotn’s stance on gay fighters UFC, those doubts were effectively cleared Febary Whe revealed that should a UFC male fighter e out openly as gay, he would support such fighters and help wh any potential down the le, spe the reassurg words of Whe on supportg male UFC gay fighters, the UFC male divisns boast of no openly gay, however, is not a reflectn of anti-gay sentiments the fact, the UFC star Marc Diakie dubbed the Bonecsher, beme the first UFC star to appear a gay fact that no openly gay UFC star exist is not an issue unique to the MMA general, pecially male sports, do not have gay top-flight sports which generate lots of buzz and tert boast of few to zero athlet who openly intify as members of the gay muny This, th, is no issue peculiar to the UFC but to sports Complete List of Gay UFC Fighters 1.

Amanda Nun The Brazilian MMA star is no stranger to the UFC or the world of mixed martial Nun is one of the most ement members of the gay muny the UFC but also bee she is credibly talented what she of May 2022, Amanda Nun currently holds the UFC Women’s Featherweight to fightg the UFC, Amanda Nun fought the Strikeforce promotns, where she effectively tablished herself as one of the tought MMA fighters the reputatn she created was tegral her short stt wh Invicta Fightg Champnships before she moved on to the UFC. Raquel Penngton is one of the lbian UFC fighters who is vol about her revealed to fans ndidly how she me out as a lbian and also nveyed her thoughts on the stggl of beg a gay athlete. Tecia TorrPhoto: @teciatorrOne of the current gay fighters UFC who is openly lbian, Torr, is no stranger to the MMA star, who is one of the top-rated stars the UFC female strawweight divisn, began her MMA reer over a ago and has tablished herself as a ntenr for the UFC Strawweight ’s major troductn to the sport started October 2012 when she ma her promotnal but the Invicta Fightg stt at Invicta was short, as her potential ught the attentn of the UFC, who offered her a place the ele December Torr was one of the first 11 women signed to the UFC strawweight divisn and also was a st member The Ultimate Fighter realy show.

30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

Concln There you have —the list of the openly gay fighters there are no openly gay male UFC fighters, the promotn, through s print Dana Whe has ma known how supportive they will be should any male MMA fighter tak the brave step of g the current members of the LGBTQ muny the UFC, there has been mostly no difference their reers pared to their straight Out The Intertg Articl on BiglySports:Top 20 Hottt Female UFC Fighters Of All TimeHow Much Do UFC Rg Girls Make? Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River. She was once arrted for attemptg to climb through a wdow ( a drs and heels) to a room where the New York Cy Council was batg a gay rights bill, NBC reported.

“Sylvia’s role gay history was that she was one of the first people to highlight that our movement need to be more clive of people who did not f the mastream, ” Carrie Davis, Chief Programs and Policy Officer at New York Cy’s LGBT Communy Center, told NBC News. In a untry where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ muny through text msag and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ Nkom intifi as heterosexual, she has dited her work to fightg for Cameroon’s LGBTQ muny and found the Associatn for the Defence of Homosexualy 2003.

PRI MONTH: WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY MALE MMA FIGHTERS?

But 2005, the queer activist was forced to flee his untry, where homosexual activy remas, Parsi liv exile Canada, where he has found the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refuge, which supports and provis guidance to LGBTQ asylum seekers om the Middle East. About a year after he was first drafted, Sam retired om the NFL cg mental health stggle highlighted the discrimatn and homophobia still rampant the sports world, but Sam has gone on to share his story and ntu to champn change. Jonathan Van Ns, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk, and Karamo Brown om Queer Courty of NetflixThe all-star st of Netflix’s new Queer Eye seri — a reboot of Bravo’s early 2000s seri Queer Eye for the Straight Guy — may be all fun when to makeovers, but they’re ser about makg a difference the “Fab Five” — Tan France, Jonathan Van Ns, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, and Antoni Porowski — speak openly on Queer Eye about their personal stggl and experienc wh homophobia and discrimatn.

“We want gays to reprent gays, ” Milk told the San Francis Examer 1977, and his posn as an LGBTQ public official helped brg the muny’s issu to promence. While servg as a cy supervisor, he troduced legislatn to protect the gay muny, cludg a gay rights ordance 1978 to ban discrimatn agast LGBTQ hog or employment. Kramer -found the advocy groups GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), which ed the inic SILENCE = DEATH logo that beme a symbol for the AIDS crisis.

His ntributns to the LGBTQ muny boil down to the impact he ma as a pneer drag, and how “Drag Race” drastilly changed the way lns of Amerins view — and appreciate — a key facet of gay culture. By the end of the 20th century, the word gay was remend by major LGBT groups and style guis to scribe people attracted to members of the same sex, although is more monly ed to refer specifilly to men. In 1964 Allan Horsfall and a group of iends set up the North Wt Homosexual Law Reform Commtee, even givg out his home addrs as the base for the anizatn.

ABSOLUTE LEGENDS: THE GAY HERO OF THE BATTLE OF BRA

Later the North Wt Commtee was transformed to the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE), which was the largt LGBT anizatn there has ever been the UK, wh more than 5, 000 members and 120 lol groups all over the untry when was at s biggt. Goronwy was scribed as the “most perceptive member of the mtee”, and the one who succsfully argued that the mtee should take evince directly om homosexual men.

In 2019 he received France’s hight civilian award, the Legn d’honnr, by Print Emmanuel Macron, who lled him one of the first gay artists to give a voice to the LGBT muny. He and his partner David Furnish were among the first upl the UK to get a civil partnership 2005, when the law was changed to allow gay relatnships to be legally regnized.

In 1978, he helped troduce the cy’s first LGBTQ+ rights ordance, which Milk referred to as “the most strgent gay rights law the untry, ” acrdg to The Tim. Jt Fashanu was Bra’s first openly gay footballer, and although 30 years have passed he remas the only male footballer to reveal his sexualy while playg profsnally the top tiers.

GAY MMA ACH AND A CHAMPN WRTLER WS TOUGHT BATTLE BY G OUT

Lambda is an Amerin civil rights anizatn that foc on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muni as well as people livg wh HIV/AIDS (PWAs) through impact ligatn, societal tn, and public policy work.

He wrote pamphlets about beg gay Germany and, Augt 29, 1867, Ulrichs spoke Munich at the Congrs of Jurists to mand legal equal rights for all sexuali. Through fellow soldier and poet Siegied Sassoon, Owen was troduced to a sophistited homosexual lerary circle which broaned his outlook and creased his nfince rporatg homoerotic elements to his work. "Until there's more people [like Mola] who are vol wantg to create a welg environment, there's gog to be barriers for LGBT athlet - pecially LGBT gay male athlet.

"'It's crazy how much we hi who we are'Smh (left) is creded wh beg the first man to e out profsnal MMAThe ntrast between the men's and women's divisns of the MMA is stark, wh Amanda Nun, Liz Carmouche and Molly McCann three of several openly gay female McCann, who tailed her story of g out on the BBC's LGBT Sport Podst, believ gay male fighters are held back by stereotyp. As part of Forc Network's Absolute Legends seri, we've been lookg at jt a few of the ary's numerable, credible people and Stephen Bourne reveals how, durg a rare perd of tolerance the Send World War, gay men like Ian Gleed served wh distctn on the ont le, fdg love and relatnships while they served their Kg and homosexualy remaed a crimal offence the UK until the 1960s, the banng of gay recs the armed servic was not lifted until 2000.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

However, homosexualy was unofficially tolerated by the armed servic for the duratn of the Send World gay men uld be open and were protected by their ras. Others beme ‘masts’ gay men existed a risky world where tolerance was far om spoke about same-sex relatnships that took place bee outed gay men faced beg urt-martialled, imprisoned and thrown out of the servic on the grounds that homosexualy would stroy the morale of the troops.

Although he had boyiends, his fay probably never knew that Gleed was homosexual, and was fifty years before the tth me out when, a BBC televisn documentary, one of his wartime lovers, Christopher Gotch, scribed his relatnship wh Gleed at the RAF statn where they were both Gleed learned to fly privately before he joed the RAF at the age of pleted his ‘wgs’ urse on Christmas Day 1936. ” Stephen Bourne’s Fightg Proud – The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served Two World Wars is published by I B Tris and is now available paperback (£11.

She created a lane to be at peace while strivg for stardom as an openly gay woman who exprs herself eely on and off the 38, Rapoe is 20 years olr than teen prodigy Alyssa Thompson, an exaggerated example of the shift occurrg on the dynastic U. When archivist Rachel Miller began to vtigate the life of Sidney Frankl, one of the world's most famo matadors, she unvered a treasure trove of unexpected rmatn -- cludg the fact that his sexualy and gay pas were an open secret the world of 1940s bullfightg.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

One night, after naively agreeg to meet up wh a man who offered a new experience, he lured me to a back alleyway, where I was nonted by a group of his homophobic iends. Fally, after s of reprsn and experiencg livg a ntuo cycle of succs followed by extreme loss and failure, I found the urage to say out loud: ‘I’m gay. “The Big Gay Gladiator” challenged for the WAW European, People’s, Brish Heavyweight and World Heavyweight tl multiple tim his qut to hold WAW gold for the first time nearly two years.

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

'” She go further, wonrg if “the purge of the SA and the killg of Röhm reprented the leral objective rrelative for the supprsn and reprsn of the homosexual sir their own Nazism? Around 15, 000 gay people were sent to ncentratn mps, where some were experimented upon bizarre efforts to fd a “cure” for sexual orientatn, a forhadowg of Amerin psychologil and later fundamentalist efforts to try the same thg. Jo here and take actn to ensure that everyone gets to have the right to too many Ain untri ntue to monize and crimalise homosexualy to this the world ntu to try and be more acceptg of people om all walks of life, there are still 69 untri where same-sex relatnships are still nsired to be crime.

Nkoli’s sexualy almost st him his posn as the secretary of Congrs of South Ain Stunts(COSAS), many of the members of the COSAS movement had lack of unrstandg or acceptance of homosexualy. Succeedg this, 1982 Nkoli joed the Gay and Lbian Associatn of South Ai (GASA) as one of the few black members of the anisatn efforts of tergratg his the a Nkoli and fellow Black members endured a seri of racial microaggrsns as part GASA, he went on to start a branch of GASA known as the Saturday Group for people who were exclud by the ma prison 1984 for treason alongsi other anti-apartheid activists  the Delmas Trial, the anisatn cled to support him, statg that the charg were not “gay matters” his release, Nkoli tablished the Gay and Lbian Organisatn of Wswatersrand (GLOW) alongsi fellow LGBTQ+ activist Beverly Dsie.

From a very young age, UK-based Cameroonian blogger and LGBTQ+ activist Bandy Kiki, knew that she was Kiki first moved to the UK, she feared for her life whenever she would attend gathergs wh members of the LGBTQ+ muny bee her native untry homosexualy is a crimal offence which n be punishable by maximum of five years Febary 2021 at least 24 people have been arrted and forced to unrgo an anal eximatn and HIV tt  Cameroon. She is a spokperson for Rabow Equaly Hub, which fights for the rights of queer people the April 2021 she publicly stood up for two transgenr women om her home untry who were arrted at a rtrant for wearg women’s clothg and charged for “attempted homosexualy. In 2017, he started A Nasty Boy magaze, Nigeria’s first publitn that was dited solely to the LGBTQ+ members wh the purpose of celebratg and regnisg their liv and experienc the wt Ain he was fally startg to live his tth universy, Akon was met wh a harsh realy after his iend outed him to a mp he scribed as wagg a “war agast homosexualy.