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.
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JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
Y. A natnal poll asked lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng people age 13 to 24. * gay fact of the day *
Reprentativ of the Buffalo Radil Lbians take part an LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971.
On 28 June 1969, police raid New York’s Stonewall Inn, a proment and popular gay bar the cy. The Pri flag was vented by Gilbert Baker and was first exhibed at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para 1978.
In the 1950s and 1960s, homosexualy was nsired a mental illns, and some LGBTQ+ people were still unrgog psdoscientific “nversn” practic om psychiatrists. That, upled wh the fact that homosexualy was crimalised most plac, meant that queer people were phed to the margs and ma to feel like their inty was somethg to be ashamed of.
GAY PRI
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Members of the Gay Liberatn Front prottg agast the Indtrial Relatns Bill to ll for an end to society’s opprsn of homosexuals, London, UK, 13th January 1971. The followg year, even more ci started holdg gay rights march that would form the basis of the morn Pri movement.
For example, San Francis only changed s name om Gay Freedom Day Para to Gay Pri Day Para 1994. People hold a banner readg “We are Fay” while wavg rabow flags as they take part the Gay Pri para Entebbe on Augt 8, 2015.
But that’s not the se everywhere – homosexualy is still crimalised numero untri all around the world, and queer people are neher accepted nor tolerated many other plac. A natnal poll asked lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng people age 13 to 24, “How have recent bat about state laws rtrictg the rights of LGBTQ young people impacted your mental health? homosexualy, sexual tert and attractn to members of one’s own sex.
GAY FUN FACTS
Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * gay fact of the day *
The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned. Homosexualy was not unmon ancient Greece and Rome, and the relatnships between adult and adolcent mal particular have bee a chief foc of Wtern classicists recent years. Juo-Christian as well as Mlim cultur have generally perceived homosexual behavur as sful.
Others—om factns wh mastream Prottantism to anizatns of Reform rabbis—have advoted, on theologil as well as social grounds, the full acceptance of homosexuals and their relatnships. Morn velopments Attus toward homosexualy are generally flux, partially as a rult of creased polil activism (see gay rights movement) and efforts by homosexuals to be seen not as aberrant personali but as differg om “normal” dividuals only their sexual orientatn.
The nflictg views of homosexualy—as a variant but normal human sexual behavur on one hand, and as psychologilly viant behavur on the other—rema prent most societi the 21st century, but they have been largely rolved ( the profsnal sense) most veloped untri. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, for example, classified “ego-syntonic homosexualy” (the ndn of a person ntent wh his or her homosexualy) as a mental illns 1973. Nohels, some relig groups ntue to emphasize reparative therapy the attempt to “cure” homosexualy through prayer, unselg, and behavur modifitn.