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Contents:
- CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W
- GAY RIGHTS
- TOIB POEM HONOURS 'THE FIRST GAY HURLER SCE CUCHULAN'
- JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
- NFL’S FIRST-EVER OPENLY GAY PLAYER STARS WILD FISH TO MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
- WHY HAVE THE DODGERS BEEN SO SLOW TO HONOR GLENN BURKE, MLB'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER?
- BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
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.
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 *
Nassib, who has played the NFL sce 2016, me out as gay earlier this year.
TOIB POEM HONOURS 'THE FIRST GAY HURLER SCE CUCHULAN'
* 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.
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. In this month's midterm electns, Colorado elected the natn's first openly gay ernor.
JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
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". * first openly gay hurler *
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.
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 *
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. 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.
WHY HAVE THE DODGERS BEEN SO SLOW TO HONOR GLENN BURKE, MLB'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER?
"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.
BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
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.