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KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay icons 1980s *

It’s difficult today’s culture of creased awarens, improved treatment and advanc preventn to properly nvey the vastatg impact of the epimic on the gay muny to those who hadn’t lived through themselv. On July 3, 1981, the New York Tim ran a story about a rare ncer seen homosexual men. Origally intified as Kaposi’s Sara and later gay-related immune ficiency, the Center for Disease Control began g the term AIDS late 1982.

In rponse to the epimic, activists formed Gay Men’s Health Crisis, cludg Pl Popham, Edmund Whe, Pl Rapoport, Lawrence D. “If what you’re hearg don’t roe you to anger, fury, rage and actn, gay men will have no future here on earth.

After sentially creatg queer media studi wh his book The Celluloid Closet 1981, Vo Rso was one of the founrs of GLAAD, then an acronym for Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. Who says gay men don't love women? So let's brg on the femme adoratn and celebrate the idols most worth gay-genuflectg ont of through eterny.

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The 12 most fabulo gay ins of all time (female divisn) are...Judy GarlandThe woman who uld tear your heart out wh a melody and some moist ey, Judy appeals to the outst , as we long to go over the rabow and fd acceptance and a pot of gold. Judy's vulnerabily ma her a quiverg gay in, as did the fact that for years, she kept on gog, able to belt out one more song spe the rigors of the bs that always tried to squeeze more juice out of her brilliance. Her ath shortly before Stonewall lks her forever to morn gay history.

As she now tri to get a movie of Gypsy produced, the gays are gettg weirdly exced aga. Gays have always loved Carol's scer-eyed way of playg golddiggers and yentas.

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