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• PATRICK HAGGERTY DI: MAN WILY REGARD AS FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY SGER WAS 78
• GAY UNTRY MIC IN PATRICK HAGGERTY DIED MONDAY AT AGE 78
• BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
• TMP NOMAT OPENLY GAY NSERVATIVE TO FERAL APPEALS URT
• WHY 'S STILL DIFFICULT TO BE MALE, GAY AND PLAY FOOTBALL
• PATRICK BUMATAY, OPENLY GAY TMP NOMEE, NFIRMED TO 9TH CIRCU
• REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND
• TMP MAK HIS SEND NOMATN OF OPENLY GAY PERSON TO BE FERAL JUDGE
• HOE DEMS PICK OPENLY GAY LAWMAKER TO LEAD MPAIGN ARM
• IS PATRICK HAHOM GAY? IS PATRICK HAHOM BROTHER GAY?
• 'NHL IS READY FOR GAY PLAYER,' SAYS PATRICK BURKE
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS 'THERE'S SOMETHG SEXY' ABOUT STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY
• THE GUARDIAN MISTAKENLY OUTS PATRICK STEWART AS GAY ELLEN PAGE STORY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS OPENLY GAY: I WANT TO LIVE AND NOT BE AAID
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

PATRICK HAGGERTY DI: MAN WILY REGARD AS FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY SGER WAS 78

Patrick Haggerty, the trailblazer wily regard as the first openly gay untry sger, died on Monday surround by his hband and children, acrdg to a statement on his band’s Instagram page. The self-tled 1973 disc is the first known gay-themed album untry mic history, acrdg to Journal of Country Mic. Wh tracks like “Come Out Sgg” and “Cry’ The C*cks***g Tears, ” was fund and released by Gay Communy Social Servic of Seattle.

GAY UNTRY MIC IN PATRICK HAGGERTY DIED MONDAY AT AGE 78

Lavenr Country rned briefly 2000 after a proment article on gay untry micians sparked renewed tert. “Cry’ The C*cks***g Tears” was clud the 2012 pilatn album Strong Love: Songs of Gay Liberatn 1972-1981.

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Haggerty broke ground as the first openly gay untry mic artist wh the group Lavenr Country.

BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP

He first began to unrstand he was gay while growg up on a dairy farm Washgton State the 1950s. And if you n around spendg your whole life thkg that you're dog the wrong thg, then you'll your immortal out of all the thgs a father 1959 uld have told his gay son, my father tells me to be proud of myself and not sneak.

While many black pastors nmn gays and lbians om the pulp, the choir lofts behd them often are filled wh gay sgers and micians.

TMP NOMAT OPENLY GAY NSERVATIVE TO FERAL APPEALS URT

Print Obama's recent announcement that he supports same-sex marriage turned the spotlight on rervatns many blacks harbor about gay rights. Most polls show Ain-Amerins evenly divid about gay marriage, but the vol opposn, led by preachers, has gaed more attentn.

Woon helped lead the recent mpaign that outlawed gay marriage his state.

WHY 'S STILL DIFFICULT TO BE MALE, GAY AND PLAY FOOTBALL

The virtuosy of gay sgers, micians and posers has been the drivg force velopg popular gospel choirs — even chart-toppg, Grammy-wng acts — that make money for a church, help expand ngregatns and raise the profil of pastors. It all happens unr an unspoken "don't ask, don't tell" ctom that allows gay people to be active the church, though closeted, and church to reap the benefs of their membership. "On the one hand, you're nurtured the choir but you also have to s through some of those fire and brimstone sermons about homosexualy beg an abomatn, " says E.

PATRICK BUMATAY, OPENLY GAY TMP NOMEE, NFIRMED TO 9TH CIRCU

Patrick Johnson, an openly gay gospel sger and thor of Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Black Gay Men of the South.

Patrick Johnson, who is openly gay, says morn gospel mic is largely fed by the artistry of black gay men. Johnson and others believe that morn gospel mic self is largely fed by the artistry of black gay men.

Bishop Yvette Flunr of Oakland, Calif., is openly gay and the founr of The Fellowship, an anizatn of black pastors and church openly welg of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr members. " As Johnson puts , "You n't throw a shoe back through history whout htg gay and lbian women and even transgenr sgers.

REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND

" Johnson scrib church choirs as a welg muny wh a muny "where you meet other gay people, so be a form of socializg. " Commentator Keh Boyk, who is Ain-Amerin and gay, lls a paradox: "The church might be the most homophobic and most homotolerant of any stutn the black muny.

" Woon, the pastor North Carola, agre that the prence of gays and lbians choirs or other church mistri reveals the "duplicy and, ankly, the hypocrisy of the black church.... He says his church also has ntued to support gay members who have ntracted HIV/AIDS, unlike some other church that ostracize them — a practice many people on both sis of the issue say has been mon. Dennis Wiley of Covenant Baptist Uned Church of Christ Maryland is a proment advote of gay marriage.

But many others say they are torn between their allegiance to their church, which form the cultural and stutnal backbone of black muni, and their sire to live ee of homophobia. " Gospel mic superstar and megachurch pastor Donnie McClurk shocked the non-gospel world years ago by revealg a 2001 book that God "livered" him om a gay "liftyle" that he said was a rult of beg sexually abed as a boy.

TMP MAK HIS SEND NOMATN OF OPENLY GAY PERSON TO BE FERAL JUDGE

McClurk, who has said beg gay is a choice, was cricized by the gay muny for settg back the LGBT goal of gag acceptance. Rise Of Black Homophobia: Moraly Turns Polil For s, black misters addrsed LGBT people their sermons only ocsnally.

HOE DEMS PICK OPENLY GAY LAWMAKER TO LEAD MPAIGN ARM

Black misters and black lawmakers helped pass gay marriage bans several stat. Al Sharpton beme the hight-profile pastor to nounced homophobia and ll for greater cln of LGBT people. Pastors No Strangers To Gay Sex Sndals The sexual behavr of some male pastors, many of them also gospel sgers, also has stoked mors or led to sndal.

The ntroversy was all the more notable bee Long was a proment supporter of Geia's gay marriage ban, passed 2004, and a proposed U. And Coretta Stt Kg (who supported gay marriage), led a march to prott same-sex marriage that started at the Kg fay crypt.

IS PATRICK HAHOM GAY? IS PATRICK HAHOM BROTHER GAY?

The Bay Area the 1970s had arguably the most visible prence of LGBT members black church, jt as the broar gay rights movement had gaed momentum the regn.

'NHL IS READY FOR GAY PLAYER,' SAYS PATRICK BURKE

The Love Center Church Oakland, Calif., found by the late Bishop Walter Hawks, one of gospel mic's biggt stars the 1970s and 1980s, ma wav for welg black gays and lbians. Print Donald Tmp recently announced another wave of judicial nome, and among them is an openly gay nservative, Patrick nomated Bumatay to serve on the U. Bumatay is the send openly gay person Tmp has nomated for the feral bench, acrdg to the Washgton Bla.

District Court for the Northern District of Illois June; she is wag to be nfirmed by the is currently only one openly gay feral appeals urt judge the U. Angelo, print of gay nservative group Log Cab Republins, appld Tmp’s nomatn of Bumatay.

“Patrick is highly qualified, and the fact that he is openly gay only adds to the historic nature of his nomatn. Randy Florke, Essie Maloney Florke, Sean Patrick Maloney, Daley Maloney Florke, and Reel Florke on June 21, SCHLEBUSCH / CourtyJune 23, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC / Updated June 23, 2014, 1:47 AM UTCNew York’s first openly gay ngrsman was married Patrick Maloney, a Democrat elected to New York’s 18th Congrsnal District 2012, married his longtime partner, Randy Florke.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS 'THERE'S SOMETHG SEXY' ABOUT STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY

Maloney is the send openly gay ngrsman to be married while office the Uned Stat. Media ptn, Newsround speaks to a young gay footballer about his experienc g out, along wh pro footballer Anton Hysén, one of the few openly gay players the game.

THE GUARDIAN MISTAKENLY OUTS PATRICK STEWART AS GAY ELLEN PAGE STORY

One of the ma characters the CBBC drama Jamie Johnson has e out as gay the show's latt storyle. But the wrer of the show, Shn Duggan, said that was impossible this time bee of the lack of gay players the game: "It's que sad that 2020 when Dillon need some advice, there are no out players the Premier League. " Only four male profsnal footballers who have played the UK have e out as gay.

Former Hull Cy player Thomas Beatie is the latt, after Jt Fashanu, Thomas Hzlsperger and Robbie says that he felt that he uldn't announce that he was gay while still playg: "I lerally felt like I had to sacrifice one of the two: who I am, or the sport I loved, " he said.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Homosexualy is often still ed as an sult a lot of, A young footballerThere are a number of clive teams the UK that help people to feel that they n be accepted for who they are and still play football. The LGBT chary Stonewall says dramas and storyl that show openly gay characters are important: "A lot of people fd hard to image that any top tier footballers - who are male - uld potentially be gay or bi, " says Robbie De Santos, Stonewall's director of sport.

Stereotyp about what gay and bi men are like and what they uld be good at. "I thk is harr for men to be open and play sport, homosexualy is often still ed as an sult a lot of sports. However, men's football is far behd other sports when to s stars beg openly gay and Joe thks more needs to be done to make sure young gay players like him feel wele and accepted the game.

But rather than jt certa tim of the year, you're not gay for a month you're gay for life and clubs om any sport need to be able to show that support nsistently to say; 'listen, you're gog to be weled this muny and 's gog to be a good thg that you're out and open'. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Watford pta Troy Deeney says there's probably "one gay player every team"Troy Deeney, the pta of Premier League si Watford, has said that he believ there is "probably one gay player every football team".

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS OPENLY GAY: I WANT TO LIVE AND NOT BE AAID

"I thk people that are gay or om that muny fely are very worried about havg to shoulr the rponsibily of beg the first. There are only two players playg profsnally now who are openly gay, San Diego Loyal's Coll Mart and Anton Hysen who plays Swen.

He me out as gay 2011 and was scribed at the time as a "global one-off". Circu Court of Appeals on Tuday, elevatg Patrick Bumatay, an openly gay Filipo man, to the feral bench over objectns om his liberal home-state senators.

Sean Patrick Maloney may not be New York’s only openly gay member of Congrs for long. In fact, as of 2021, he may not even be the only openly gay member of Congrs the Hudson Valley. If the prelimary rults om Tuday’s Democratic primari hold once absentee ballots are unted, then Mondaire Jon, reprentg Rockland County and much of neighborg Wtchter County, and Rchie Torr the South Bronx uld be the first openly gay Black members of Congrs.

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

“I have drawn spiratn om the historic nature of (Maloney’s) stat as an openly gay member of Congrs New York, ” Jon told Cy & State after Electn Day about the man he nsirs a mentor. ”Y, New York’s first openly gay ngrsnal reprentative isn’t om Manhattan. But he was gay a state that had jt legalized same-sex marriage 2011, and he had jt moved to the district the year before.