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Contents:

• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR HISTORY MONTH
• ADVANCE WARNING: OCTOBER IS “GAY” RECRUITMENT MONTH
• 'PLAYBOY' MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY VER STAR, BRETMAN ROCK
• MYRTLE BEACH GAY TRAVEL
• 14 POPULAR GAY TOUR & VATN COMPANI
• GAY BARS GREATER PALM SPRGS
• GAY TRAVEL TOUR CALENDAR
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• SG GAY TRAVEL GUI & MAP 2023
• JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY
• FEATURED QUIZZ
• THE BOOK CLUB THAT HELPED SPARK THE GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.

Te, if your stume is a skimpy one you’re probably gonna shiver, but the batn of drag queens, fire breathers, gay superhero, and even pets all takg to the streets to celebrate one last time before wter’s arrival, mak this event a—wa for —bewchg one.

Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. Jam Lewis Stoll’s Birthday - January 18thDolly Parton’s Birthday - January 19thCelebrate this ally’s birthday by readg Dolly Parton’s most spirg quot — cludg about human rights and the LGBTQ+ munyTrans Prisoner Day of Actn and Solidary - January 22ndBrazilian Natnal Day of Transgenr Visibily - January 29thWeeks & MonthsNatnal Blood Donor MonthUse this day to advote for the rights of gay men to be able to donate bloodNo Name-Callg Week - Every third week of January‍‍FebaryHolidaysAnniversary of the Appotment of the First Openly Gay Uned Stat Feral Judge, Joseph Gale - Febary 6thNatnal Black HIV/AIDS Awarens Day - Febary 7thNatnal Freedom to Marry Day - Febary 12thAudre Lor’s Birthday - Febary 18thChosen Fay Day - Febary 22ndWeeks & MonthsAromantic Spectm Awarens Week - Week after Febary 14th‍‍MarchHolidaysZero Discrimatn Day - March 1stInternatnal Women’s Day - March 8thJa Mock’s Birthday - March 10thBayard Rt’s Birthday - March 17thInternatnal Day for the Elimatn of Racial Discrimatn - March 21stTwo-Spir and Indigeno LGBTQ+ Awarens to Celebratn Day - March 21stInternatnal Transgenr Day of Visibily - March 31stRead and share the ultimate gui on how to celebrate Transgenr Day of VisibilyWeeks & MonthsWomen’s History MonthRead and share our gui to celebratg Women’s History MonthBisexual Health Awarens MonthNatnal LGBTQ+ Health Awarens Week - Every last week of March‍‍AprilHolidaysGLSEN Day of Silence - April, Day VariNatnal Youth HIV & AIDS Awarens Day - April 10thNatnal Transgenr HIV Ttg Day - April 18thNonbary Parents Day - Every third Sunday AprilPhill Wilson’s Birthday - April 22ndLbian Visibily Day - April 26thWeeks & MonthsLbian Visibily Week - Full week after April 26thNatnal Deaf LGBTQ+ Awarens Week - Week Vari‍‍MayHolidaysInternatnal Fay Equaly Day - Every 1st Sunday of MayNatnal Honor Our LGBT Elrs Day - May 16thInternatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia - May 17thWorld AIDS Vacce Day - May 18thRead about the potential good news about an AIDS vacceAgenr Pri Day - May 19thWorld Day of Cultural Diversy for Dialogue and Development - May 21stHarvey Milk Day - May 22ndRead the bt quot om Harvey MilkPansexual and Panromantic Visibily Day - May 24thMeet the celebri you may not know are pansexualLaverne Cox’s Birthday - May 29thWeeks & MonthsMental Health Awarens MonthRead about how to celebrate Mental Health Awarens Month so you n better support the LGBTQ+ munyQueer and Transgenr Asian Amerin/Pacific Islanr Week - Every last week of May‍‍JuneHolidaysBrandi Carlile’s Birthday - June 1stTroye Sivan’s Birthday - June 5thRead about Troye Sivan’s actg but a film that fights HIV/AIDS stigmaHIV Long-Term Survivors Day - June 5thPulse Night of Remembrance - June 12thWorld Refugee Day - June 20thLearn about the anizatn Rabow Railroad is helpg LGBTQ+ refuge and this gui on how to celebrate World Refugee DayLarry Kramer’s Birthday - June 25thFirst Use of LGBTQ+ Pri Flag - June 25thLearn about the meang of the first Pri flag — and every LGBTQ+ Pri flag that’s e sceLGBTQ+ Equaly Day - June 26thLearn about the meang of LGBTQIA+ and other acronymsAnniversary of the Legalizatn of Same-Sex Marriage the U.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

Johnson and dive to her bt quotWomen’s Equaly Day - Augt 26thWeeks & MonthsGay Uncle’s Day / Guncle’s Day - Every send Sunday Augt‍‍SeptemberHolidays​​Natnal HIV/AIDS and Agg Awarens Day - September 18th10th Anniversary of U. Repeal of ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell’ - September 20thAnniversary of the Foundg of It Gets Better Project - September 21stCelebrate Bisexualy Day / Bi Visibily Day - September 23rdNatnal Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awarens Day - Last Friday of SeptemberWeeks & MonthsBisexual Awarens Week - Starts on the Sunday before September 23rdAlly Week - Last week of SeptemberBanned Books WeekSupport LGBTQ+ thors wh our gui to how to fight book bansNatnal Suici Preventn WeekRead the bt quot about suici preventnNatnal Suici Preventn Awarens MonthRead and share this gui on how to take actn durg Suici Preventn Month — and read about how suici rat dropped when gay marriage was legalized‍‍OctoberHolidaysDan Savage’s Birthday - October 2ndInternatnal Lbian Day - October 8thNatnal Comg Out Day - October 11thMatthew Shepard Death Anniversary - October 12thInternatnal Pronouns Day - October 17thSpir Day for LGBTQ+ Youth - October 19thLearn how to support LGBTQ+ youth and take actnLGBT Center Awarens Day - October 19thIntersex Awarens Day - October 26thNatnal Transgenr Children Day - October 26thWeeks & MonthsLGBTQ+ History MonthRead about LGBTQ+ history om before StonewallNatnal Bullyg Preventn MonthAsexual Awarens Week (Ace Week) - Last full week of October‍‍NovemberHolidaysIntersex Day of Remembrance - November 8thRuPl’s Birthday - November 18thInternatnal Transgenr Day of Remembrance - November 20thInternatnal Day for the Elimatn of Vlence Agast Women - November 25thGivg Tuday - First Tuday after ThanksgivgLearn how to volunteer wh or donate to LGBTQ+ anizatns for Givg Tuday (and explore more ias to make a difference)Weeks & MonthsTransgenr Awarens Week - First two full weeks of NovemberNatnal Homels Youth Awarens Month‍‍DecemberHolidaysWorld AIDS Day - December 1stExplore good news about the fight agast HIV/AIDS the U. But over the years, LGBTQ+ History Month has evolved to a natnal llaborative effort to brg extraordary figur om the LGBTQ+ muny to the History Month is a month-long celebratn of the history of the diverse and betiful lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny and the importance of civil rights movements progrsg gay rights.

Also, the anniversary of the first march for gay rights Washgton took place on October 14, History Month now also clus Ally Week — durg which stunts are enuraged to be alli wh LGBTQ members and stand up agast bullyg, Spir Day on October 20 — on which the lor purple is worn solidary wh LGBTQ youth, and the ath anniversary of Matthew Shepard — a 21-year-old who was murred a hate crime on October 12, History Month allows the opportuny to extensively learn about the history of the LGBTQ+ movement, and what factors and measur will be succsful buildg muni and providg role mols who will bt reprent and addrs the issu of the LGBTQ+ month-long memoratn is most promently celebrated the Uned Stat, the Uned Kgdom, Canada, Atralia, Hungary, Brazil, and the cy of Berl. The particular month of celebratn vari across different untri — the Uned Stat, Canada, and Atralia, LGBTQ+ History Month is celebrated October; the Uned Kgdom and Hungary, is celebrated Febary; and Berl, the holiday is celebrated June and is known as Queer History History Month timele1974LGBTQ+ History Month HungaryThe Gay Teacher’s Group is tablished as a support work after a teacher was ‘outed’ by a stunt to his managers.

LGBT stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenrHow To Celebrate LGBTQ+ History MonthCelebrate the history of LGBTQ+LGBTQ+ History Month aims to highlight the achievements of those who have spearhead and led the e for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

5 Inic LGBTQ+ Figur In HistoryAlan TurgAlan Turg played a signifint role featg Germany WWII bee he cracked the mathematil Enigma — he was also arrted for beg homosexual, which was a crime Bra 1952, but he was pardoned 2017 and was cleared of all charg (and this lead to the Alan Turg Law) WilYou know him as one of the most famo playwrights history, but Osr Wil was also outed as homosexual after the tails of his affair wh an aristocrat were publicly P. Johnson was an Ain Amerin transgenr-rights activist who ma a huge impact on the progrsn of the LGBTQ+ e wh her work the 1960s and HorsfallAlso known as the grandfather of the gay rights movement, Allan Horsfall fearlsly intified as gay and openly mpaigned for homosexuals at a time when was explicly WdsorEdh Wdsor’s se agast the judicial system Ameri was the first time same-sex marriage was legalized the U. Of particular historic signifince was the rearch of Evelyn Hooker, which disproved the notn that homosexualy was a mental illns, and led ultimately to s removal om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs.

GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. Gay History Month ( the ntrolled social-engeerg environment of today’s public schools) is signed both to sell the false narrative of LGBT polil activism as “a noble and historic movement for social jtice, ” and to fe a young person’s personal pursu of “sexual liberatn” through “gayns” as an act of moral urage.

Let’s start the earlit LGBT pneer, acrdg to the pre-ement scholarly journal of the LGBT muny sce the 1970s, the Journal of Homosexualy, and one of s most rpected ntributors, Gert Heckma PhD, of the Gay Studi partment of the Universy of Amsterdam. But his most scpulo bgrapher, Gilbert Lely, has asserted that he was a homosexual wh no remorse… was agast…fay polics…and the church and s stutns that Sa rebelled — albe whout much succs — th begng a polil stggle for the rights of perasts. Let turn to another unimpeachably pro-“gay” source, the book Gay Amerin History (1976) by Jonathan Katz, wner 2003 of the Bdner Prize of Yale Universy, celebratg his “lifetime acplishment and scholarly ntributns the field of lbian and gay studi.

From this source we learn that the very first “gay rights” anizatn the Uned Stat was the Amerin chapter of the German-based Society for Human Rights (SHR), formed Chigo by a man named Henry Gerber on December 10, 1924 (p. ” In The Trouble Wh Harry Hay, bgrapher Stuart Timmons wrote approvgly that when NAMBLA was nied a role the 1986 Los Angel “Gay Pri Para, ” marcher Harry Hay donned a sweatshirt prted wh the legend, “NAMBLA Walks Wh Me.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

NAMBLA was a “gay” activist anizatn started by David Thorstad (founr of the Gay Activist Alliance) and Thomas Reev who wrote this about the LGBT movement “Almost every one of the early openly homosexual wrers was a perast. To brg this full circle, Harry Hay was Obama “Safe Schools Czar” Kev Jenngs’s spiratn for foundg the natn-wi and very powerful Gay Lbian Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) that will largely drive the October agenda the public schools.

The livtream — prented by dmhFund and Philalphia Gay News — will feature Philalphia’s entertaers Pla Deen-Whe and In Ebony-Fierce as hosts, and a diverse st cludg Iris Spectre, Sapphira Cristál, The Eric Jaffe, VChelle and several other performers on the virtual stage, pl special shoutouts om natnal celebri. Bretman Rock is makg history wh his appearance on the ver of Playboy magaze's October 2021 digal issue, as the 23-year-old be the first openly gay male to secure the veted Hawaii-based Filipo fluencer isn't new to the spotlight after makg a name for himself on YouTube and the short-form vio app Ve, where Rock displayed both his humor and his skill wh makp. "As the first out gay man to ver the magaze, pecially durg Filipo Amerin History Month, Bretman Rock is ntug to fy genr norms and e his massive social platform to not only break down barriers for LGBTQ cln the dtry, but also spire so many other LGBTQ Filipos who have been unrreprented fashn, molg, and across media.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR HISTORY MONTH

Be a day explorg the Pensula to the tip of Ai, a day explorg the Welands, a day the cy and on Table Mounta, a day safari, a week drivg the Garn Route, or a few nights on safari, they’re a gay tour pany wh somethg for everyone.

To date, there have been five openly LGBTQ+ people who have served as a natnal head of ernment, Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Serbia -- but gay, bisexual, lbian, and even transgenr lears have guid natns sce time immemorial.

That he sat on the throne named Neferkare leads many scholars to believe the tale Kg Neferkare and General Sase, which scrib a gay relatnship between a pharaoh and his general, was fact about Pepi, though Egyptologists ntue to bate if the story was tth or fictn. In addn to beg the first openly gay prime mister of the island natn, the 38-year-old was the youngt head of ernment for the untry and the first member of an ethnic mory to hold the post (his father is an Indian immigrant). Experience THE BEST OF CHRISTMAS Europe, om Mozart and the Habsburg Emprs, Sissi’s stl Vienna, gay Kg Ludwig’s herage Munich and Bavaria, the olst and most famo Christmas market Nuremberg, and the most betifully-rated fairy tale villag the Alsace mountas and the stunng Christmas Capal Strasbourg.

ADVANCE WARNING: OCTOBER IS “GAY” RECRUITMENT MONTH

It’s one of only five untri to make queer rights equal at a nstutnal level and holds first place on ILGA-Europe’s Rabow Europe Inx, which ranks untri on LGBTQ+ my last vis, a gay gui showed me round the wdg medieval streets of Valletta and Rabat, potg out sential bars and rtrants om Michel-starred Noni to the Monaliza Lounge drag bar, as well as the nightclub Michelangelo lively Paceville. This spir filters down to Dubl’s many LGBTQ-iendly tablishments: two personal favour are iendly bnch spot Social Fabric Café Stoneybatter, one of the cy’s most tertg neighbourhoods, and Street 66 bar, a eful cktail spot before a night at inic LGBTQ+ stutn The southsi is gay-owned Gutter Bookshop (named after the famo Osr Wil quote), and the weekly “big gay dis” Sunday Social at Farrier & Draper; or cross the river for the Outhoe LGBTQ+ muny rource fe on Capel Street and PantiBar, owned by drag queen, activist and performer Panti Bliss.

'PLAYBOY' MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY VER STAR, BRETMAN ROCK

Enjoy bnch at Osr bar and fe, before a beer at one of Europe’s olst gay bars, Centralhjor, which hosts drag and Sunday jazz ssns venu clu Bøssehet Christiania, home to theatre, performanc, exhibns and parti – a well-suated boutique hotel is SP34 (doubl om £133) the Lat Quarter.

MYRTLE BEACH GAY TRAVEL

Start wh bibimbap at the thoroughfare’s Korean rtrant Topokki before drks at Missg, Siwalk or lbian bar The Fox and dancg at the legendary Nightgale Club, the olst gay club the cy, datg back to summer’s hot LGBTQ+ event is Fierce’s Healg Garns of Bab (27 June - 17 July): part of Birmgham 2022 Ftival, ’s an artistic rponse to this summer’s Commonwealth Gam, celebratg “what the Brish Empire tried (and failed) to stamp out”.

Mykonos’s rep as queer heaven dat back to the 1970s, when Jackie Onassis beme a regular visor (she first vised 1961), before blossomed as gay rort the 1980s, wh acmodatn sprgg up for the largely male 2022, you n hang out at tablished hotspots Jackie O, bar Porta or Kastro’s, and stay at the Super Paradise (doubl om £249), handy for the island’s ma LGBTQ+ beach. Photograph: Subodh Agnihotri/AlamyFor many gay men of a certa age, Fland is extribly associated wh leather-clad inic hero Tom of Fland, whose books pict a ggedly sexualised masculy durg a time pre-1971 when homosexualy was still illegal. Now you n take a tour of where thor Too Laaksonen lived his whole adult life, passg the Kansalaistori (People’s Square) ont of parliament, once a clanste meetg pot for gay karaoke fans should check out Mann’s Street, a boozy stutn; other fun spots are Street Pri the Kamppi district, and Kvääristö, a jot for queer women, transgenr, and non-bary people.

14 POPULAR GAY TOUR & VATN COMPANI

The 2-day street ftival the Northalsted neighborhood featur live mic on 3 stag, a Youth Pri Space for teens, bt of Chigo drag performance, Proud Pet Para, dance exhibns, Chigo Gay Men’s Chos, high heel race for priz, gut speakers and over 150 food and merchandise vendors.

Conservative ngregatns also want to separate om the nomatn bee they agree wh the ban on same-sex marriage and gay clergy, and want the bate to Uned Methodist Church ― Oklahoma's send-largt fah group ― is the midst of a schism that has been gradually wing over the urse of several s. He’d always assumed that, by the time he entered his twenti, he would velop sir for women, then marry and have 1954, on a bs trip to Cleveland, Segura stopped by a bookstore and saw a py of “The Homosexual Ameri, ” by Donald Webster Cory. The service didn’t have meetgs; Cory simply selected books and sent the tl to his rears, highlightg everythg om Marc Branl’s novel “The Barriers Between, ” about a man who murrs his iend for “unnatural advanc, ” to “Homosexualy and the Wtern Christian Tradn, ” a gay theologil history that Cory scribed as “the book that hundreds of our rears have been searchg for, ” one that “they uld give to iends, fay, and unsellors.

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” Víctor Macías-González, a historian and the thor of a paper on Tony Segura, told me that many queer people refed to buy gay books, stead borrowg them through rental servic, which a number of bookstor had at the yet the early fifti saw a boom queer lerature, driven part by the rise of cheap paperbacks.

Together, they figured, they would have a direct le to the gay book the book service’s gural issue, sent out September, 1952, Cory promised that many of the books he featured would be available to his subscribers before they h stor.

Cory do seem to have had a legal team vettg which books he remend: when Jay Ltle, a gay thor, wrote to Cory about placg his book “Maybe-Tomorrow” wh the service, Cory replied that, although he enjoyed the novel, “We have not only been advised, but orred by our lawyers, not to e your book. At a discsn group sponsored by the Mattache Society—a secretive gay anizatn that had formed Los Angel 1950—someone mentned the Cory Book Service, and soon afterward an attene ntacted Cory, askg for fifty newsletter-subscriptn rds.

GAY TRAVEL TOUR CALENDAR

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

SG GAY TRAVEL GUI & MAP 2023

JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY

FEATURED QUIZZ

THE BOOK CLUB THAT HELPED SPARK THE GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT