30 Famo Gay People Who Changed the World - Disver Walks Blog

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• THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• 30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
• WHO WAS KARL HERICH ULRICHS? MEET THE FIRST MAN TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• HISTORY’S FIRST GAY COUPLETHEY LIVED, DIED AND WERE BURIED TOGETHER AS EARLY AS 2400 B.C EGYPTKAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·3 M READ·AUG 13, 2020--5SHARENIANKHKHUM AND KHNUMHOTEPSOURCE: PUBLIC DOMAWHEN EGYPTOLOGISTS DISVERED THE TOMB AT SAQQARA, EGYPT 1964, THEY WERE SURPRISED. THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY TOMB THE NECROPOLIS WHERE A SAME-SEX UPLE WAS BURIED TOGETHER.WH MOST OF THE HISTORY GETTG LOST TRANSLATN, EGYPTOLOGISTS HAVE EXTRAPOLATED OM THE EVINCE THEIR TOMB THAT KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM ARE HISTORY’S FIRST DOCUMENTED GAY UPL. THE CLAIM OF A FIRST RERD SAME-SEX UPLE HAS MET NSIRABLE BATE ACROSS AMIANS.HIEROGLYPHS ADORNED ACROSS THE TOMB PICT THEM AS HOLDG HANDS, FACE TO FACE WH THEIR NOS TOUCHG, EMBRACG A WAY THAT PICTS A MARRIED UPLE.THE TOMB
• THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
• MEET THE 19TH CENTURY TRAILBLAZER WHO FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS BEFORE THE WORD HOMOSEXUAL EVEN EXISTED

THE OLST GAYS HISTORY

But they did not have a rigid nventn of sexualy as eher heterosexual or homosexual, and, at least at certa tim, and certa strata, may have tolerated and even celebrated same-sex love. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads 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. “To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters. “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.

) And Kate McKnon, playg a so-lled Weird Barbie who experienced an extreme haircut and makeover at the hands of an experimental child, never actually answers the qutn anybody would have upon seeg her gay-ass haircut and knowg the actor’s sexualy. 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. “The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I uldn’t be any more happy, fortable wh myself, and proud, ” he said at the time.

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

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. It beme the first mpaigng anizatn outsi of London set up and n by gay men, and s work directly led to homosexualy no longer beg illegal.

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. There are currently 54 LGBT MPs the Hoe of Commons, and 2015 was clared the gayt parliament the world due to s proportn of LGBT members. 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.

30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

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. 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.

WHO WAS KARL HERICH ULRICHS? MEET THE FIRST MAN TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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.

HISTORY’S FIRST GAY COUPLETHEY LIVED, DIED AND WERE BURIED TOGETHER AS EARLY AS 2400 B.C EGYPTKAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·3 M READ·AUG 13, 2020--5SHARENIANKHKHUM AND KHNUMHOTEPSOURCE: PUBLIC DOMAWHEN EGYPTOLOGISTS DISVERED THE TOMB AT SAQQARA, EGYPT 1964, THEY WERE SURPRISED. THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY TOMB THE NECROPOLIS WHERE A SAME-SEX UPLE WAS BURIED TOGETHER.WH MOST OF THE HISTORY GETTG LOST TRANSLATN, EGYPTOLOGISTS HAVE EXTRAPOLATED OM THE EVINCE THEIR TOMB THAT KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM ARE HISTORY’S FIRST DOCUMENTED GAY UPL. THE CLAIM OF A FIRST RERD SAME-SEX UPLE HAS MET NSIRABLE BATE ACROSS AMIANS.HIEROGLYPHS ADORNED ACROSS THE TOMB PICT THEM AS HOLDG HANDS, FACE TO FACE WH THEIR NOS TOUCHG, EMBRACG A WAY THAT PICTS A MARRIED UPLE.THE TOMB

Volkmar Sigch, a leadg German scholar sexual science, scribed him as “the most cisive and fluential pneer of homosexual emancipatn … world history. 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.

They also played an tegral role nvcg the Ain Natnal Congrs, South Ai’s lg polil party, to formally regnize gay and lbian rights the untry. In fact, Ulrichs is wily creded as the pneer of the morn gay rights movement, and is famo for makg his own words up to scribe gay men, lbians, bisexuals and tersex people.

Afterwards, he worked the civil service of Hanover until 1854, when he stepped down before he uld be dismissed over his homosexual activy.

THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?

Between 1863 and 1865, Ulrichs wrote a seri of five says published as Forschungen über das Rätsel r mannmännlichen Liebe (Studi on the Riddle of Male-Male Love), which he provid his own terms for gay men, lbians, bisexuals and tersex people. This was the first and only tomb the necropolis where a same-sex uple was buried most of the history gettg lost translatn, Egyptologists have extrapolated om the evince their tomb that Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum are history’s first documented gay upl. April 7, 2011 -- Archaeologists the Czech Republic have unearthed the grave of what may be the remas of the olst known homosexual or transgenr prehistoric body dat to the Copper age -- or 2900 to 2500 years ago -- and was buried a manner that was typilly rerved for male skeleton was found on s si, facg east, and was surround by domtic jugs, objects prevly seen only female grav.

In some societi, is even celebrated, such as the Navajo where lbians are believed to have a special nnectn to the spirual world, " Helen Fisher, a blogil anthropologist at Rutgers Universy, wrote an email to "So, " Fisher ntued, "there is every reason to thk that some of our anctors were gay. At that time, the word “homosexual” hadn’t even been vented – and was many years before the word “gay” was ed to scribe same-sex attractn.

He ially believed that homosexualy men was ed by havg a female soul or “psyche” trapped si the male body – however, he later argued that same-sex sire was entirely natural. Usg that logic, Ulrichs argued that same-sex relatnships should be legally permted – and he even suggted that gay people should have the right to marry.

MEET THE 19TH CENTURY TRAILBLAZER WHO FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS BEFORE THE WORD HOMOSEXUAL EVEN EXISTED

As Hubert Kennedy his article “Karl Herich Ulrichs: First Theorist of Homosexualy”, wr: “This was a major parture om prev and subsequent theori that saw the practice of homosexualy/’sodomy’ as an acquired vice. That brgs to Augt 1867, when Ulrichs stood up the Congrs of German Jurists and issued a passnate ll for gay people to afford equaly unr the law. “Gentlemen, my proposal is directed toward a revisn of the current penal law, ” he said, acrdg to Robert Beachy’s 2014 book Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty, as reported by The New York Tim.

In his rog speech, Ulrichs referred to gay people as a “class of persons” who were facg state persecutn simply bee “nature has planted them a sexual nature that is oppose of that which is ual”. That moment is generally accepted as the first public “g out” history – standg before his peers and advotg for the rights of homosexuals left no doubt people’s mds about his own sexual orientatn. While Ulrichs didn’t succeed his battle to have anti-gay laws overturned, his pneerg wrgs and speech are remembered today for their revolutnary quali.

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. The dictator of the cy of Athens 514, Hipparch had ma a sexual advance toward the openly gay Harmodi and was rejected multiple tim, acrdg to historian Thucydis.