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AUTHOR Colm Toib has wrten a poem honour of Cork hurler Donal Og Cack, sayg he is the first "openly gay Irish hurler sce Cuchulan" and that the two chapters of his new book discsg his homosexualy "are shots that will rg around the world".

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CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W

Nassib beme the first openly gay NFL player to play a regular season game – and helped his team to a stunng victory. * first openly gay hurler *

Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib ma history durg the team's opener agast the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night, beg the first openly gay NFL player to su up a regular season game.

Nassib, who has played the NFL sce 2016, me out as gay earlier this year.

GAY RIGHTS

Forty years ago, on Nov. 27, 1978, California's first openly gay elected official was assassated. Harvey Milk champned gay rights and challenged the LGBTQ muny to be out and proud. * first openly gay hurler *

He's the first active, openly gay player to be on an NFL roster, but other players have paved the way.

TOIB POEM HONOURS 'THE FIRST GAY HURLER SCE CUCHULAN'

The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * first openly gay hurler *

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted by the NFL 2014, but was cut by the St. Harvey Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, was the first openly gay elected official California.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

* first openly gay hurler *

In this month's midterm electns, Colorado elected the natn's first openly gay ernor. The victori e 40 years after the assassatn of the first openly gay elected official California — Harvey Milk. In 1978, unr his urgg, the cy uncil passed a gay rights ordance that protected gay people om beg fired om their jobs.

In California at that time, a nservative state senator named John Briggs was phg a statewi ballot measure, Proposn 6, to ban gay and lbian teachers.

San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk, left, who was openly gay, talks wh Gwenn Craig and Bill Krs, -ordators of the San Francis No on Prop 6 program San Francis on Nov. Prop 6, which would have banned gay and lbian teachers, was feated. He thought the murr meant the end of the gay rights movement.

NFL’S FIRST-EVER OPENLY GAY PLAYER STARS WILD FISH TO MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports. * first openly gay hurler *

Today, the seat Milk held when he was killed is occupied by another openly gay man, Rafael Manlman. But he worri that as queer people are priced out of gay neighborhoods like the Castro, dilut their polil power.

"I do thk that he sort of started this path that ma possible for the openly gay officials that were elected this last round, " says Craig. The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. And durg World War II, the Nazis held homosexual men ncentratn mps, brandg them wh the famo pk triangle badge, which was also given to sexual predators. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

WHY HAVE THE DODGERS BEEN SO SLOW TO HONOR GLENN BURKE, MLB'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER?

The Los Angel anizatn ed the term “homophile, ” which was nsired ls clil and foced on sexual activy than “homosexual.

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

Eisenhower signed an executive orr that banned gay people—or, more specifilly, people guilty of “sexual perversn”—om feral jobs. This ban would rema effect for some 20 Rights the 1960sThe gay rights movement saw some early progrs In the 1960s. In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr.

BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.

In fact, gay men and women New York Cy uld not be served alhol public due to liquor laws that nsired the gatherg of homosexuals to be “disorrly. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.

They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

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