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Contents:

• THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
• THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
• KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACH NFL
• GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH
• 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
• WHO WAS KARL HERICH ULRICHS? MEET THE FIRST MAN TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?

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. Homosexualy, as Wterners thk of today, wh a lot of add societal baggage that wouldn't ronate at all wh prehistoric man, Arnold said. "Homosexualy is found a great many other speci -- om ducks to chimps -- as well as many cultur where people are allowed to exprs .

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. 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. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen me out publicly as gay Thursday, makg him the first known openly gay male ach the NFL and men’s profsnal sports the Uned Stat.

RAIDERS' CARL NASSIB ON COMING OUT GAY: ‘I DIDN’T KNOW IF IT WOULD RUIN MY CAREER' "It wasn’t until recently — and wh the immense love and support of my fay, my iends, lleagu and peers, and the urage and sacrifice om my partner — that I realized I have the right and rponsibily to love and be loved, and that maybe sharg this will hopefully give someone else the strength to accept their own life and take ntrol of their own story, " Maxen explaed.

THE OLST GAYS HISTORY

In the NFL, Tampa Bay Bucneers fensive leman Carl Nassib beme the league’s first openly gay active player when he ma his announcement 2021 while playg for the Las Vegas Rairs. Ancient Tim: Cultur such as the Indian, Che, Egyptian, Greek and Roman acmodate homosexualy and crossdrsg among a mory of s cizens sce the earlit rerd tim. One of the earlit Egyptian pharaohs associated wh homosexualy is Kg Neferkare, who is scribed havg an affair wh his top ary manr, Sase, durg the Sixth Dynasty.

The Jewish prophet Mos nmns crossdrsg and homosexualy the Torah (Book of Levic), punishg the latter by ath for both men and women.

KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACH NFL

Eighth-century Greek epics like the Iliad and Odyssey portray homosexual unns between gods and young men such as Zs and Ganyme, Poseidon and Pelops, Apollo and Hyacth, etc. The Sacred Band of Theb, a homosexual army prised of more than three hundred soldiers, is feated by Phillip II of Macedon and his son, Alexanr the Great. India’s Manmri (Manu Samha) lists homosexual behavr as a mor offense for ordary, twice-born mal and for unrage, unmarried girls but do not nmn otherwise.

India’s Narada-smri clus homosexuals s list of men who are impotent wh women and clar them curable and unf for marriage to the oppose sex. Roman historian Ddos Sicul documents one of the earlit known referenc to homosexualy among the Celtic trib of Brannia and northern Gl. The Dark Ag: Wh the advent of Christiany, homosexualy and crossdrsg are crimalized the Roman Empire but rema wily accepted throughout the rt of the world.

GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION

The Middle Ag: Wh the growth of Christiany and the advent of Islam, the crimalizatn of homosexualy and crossdrsg spreads across Eurasia and to Ai. The Middle Eastern ctom of stratg homosexual slav and hoe servants be monplace the East Roman Empire (Byzantium) and is troduced to northern Cha and India. The Early Morn Age: Christian Europe wag s greatt asslt upon homosexualy to date while the practice remas silently tolerated the Mlim world.

Expedns to sub-Saharan Ai, the New World and the South Seas reveal an astonishg acceptance of homosexualy and crossdrsg among the digeno people there.

Kg Henry VIII of England tablish the Buggery Act, which replac the penalty for homosexualy om stratn or burng at the stake to public hangg. In one of the earlit acunts of homosexualy Ai, a seri of urt rerds om Portugal’s Brazil lony scrib sodomic practic among the nativ of Angola and Congo. Several hundred homosexuals are publicly garroted San Lazaro, Mexi, durg a well-publicized effort by Spa to purge that untry of sodomy.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Early French explorers Quebec, Louisiana and the Great Lak observe crossdrsg homosexual nativ and the term “berdache” to scribe them.

Seventy-five homosexuals are sentenced to ath and garroted the Cy Hall cellars of Holland durg a harsh mpaign to extermate that untry of sodomy “om top to bottom. The Islamic world matas a mostly silent tolerance of homosexualy and the practice of male stratn dissipat unison wh the global slave market. London’s most popular playwright, Osr Wil, is nvicted of “gross cency” (homosexual acts not amountg to buggery) and sentenced to two years of hard labor a highly-publicized trial.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

The Twentieth Century: The English-speakg world begs repealg s sodomy laws en masse and the morn gay rights movement is born the Uned Stat.

In Germany and throughout much of Europe, homosexuals are vicly persecuted, imprisoned and killed by the Nazis up until the end of World War II. Ksey’s Sexual Behavr the Human Male (The Ksey Report) is published, brgg the taboo subject of homosexualy up for bate the Uned Stat.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH

Allen Gsberg cross censorship l by publishg Howl, a book celebratg his homosexualy, and emerg victor when challenged urt one year later.

In June, homosexual rts break out on Christopher Street at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy as a rponse to route police harassment, markg the begng of the morn gay rights movement.

A prehensive study of female-female seagull pairg on Santa Barbara Island (California) creat a sensatn as the first publicized observatn of homosexualy the animal kgdom. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn remov homosexualy om s list of mental and emotnal disorrs, followed two years later by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn. Chris Vogel and Rich North, a gay uple om Wnipeg, Canada, shock the world by beg the first homosexual uple to publicly marry a church and file a legal challenge to the untry’s ban on same-sex marriage.

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

Equal rights and eedom om discrimatn are guaranteed to homosexuals and transgenrs unr Canada’s new Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Morn gay movements beg to effect change Lat Ameri and parts of Asia while most Ain, Middle Eastern and East European untri are held back by anti-gay relig fundamentalism.

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars football team, me out as gay on Thursday an terview wh the LGBTQ sports-foced webse Outsports. On the achg si, several female assistant ach the NFL have prevly e out as gay, cludg former San Francis 49ers assistant ach Katie Sowers, there has prevly been no known out gay male head or assistant ach the league. Curt Miller, who is currently the head ach of the Los Angel Sparks, is the first out gay male ach the WNBA, but there have been no out gay ach any of the four major men’s U.

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

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. 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. 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.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Where homosexual activy or viance om tablished genr rol/drs was banned by law or tradnal ctom, such nmnatn might be munited through sensatnal public trials, exile, medil warngs, and language om the pulp. By the 20th century, a movement regnn of gays and lbians was unrway, abetted by the social climate of femism and new anthropologi of difference.

However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary.

Whe, male, and Wtern activists whose groups and theori gaed leverage agast homophobia did not necsarily reprent the range of racial, class, and natnal inti plitg a broar LGBT agenda. Most historians agree that there is evince of homosexual activy and same-sex love, whether such relatnships were accepted or persecuted, every documented culture.

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

We know that homosexualy existed ancient Israel simply bee is prohibed the Bible, whereas flourished between both men and women Ancient Greece.

Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy. The European powers enforced their own crimal s agast what was lled sodomy the New World: the first known se of homosexual activy receivg a ath sentence North Ameri occurred 1566, when the Spanish executed a Frenchman Florida. Biblil terpretatn ma illegal for a woman to wear pants or a man to adopt female drs, and sensatnalized public trials warned agast “viants” but also ma such martyrs and hero popular: Joan of Arc is one example, and the chillg origs of the word “faggot” clu a stick of wood ed public burngs of gay men.

” In Wtern history, we fd ltle formal study of what was later lled homosexualy before the 19th century, beyond medil texts intifyg women wh large cloris as “tribas” and severe punishment s for male homosexual acts.

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

Their wrgs were sympathetic to the ncept of a homosexual or bisexual orientatn occurrg naturally an intifiable segment of humankd, but the wrgs of Krafft-Ebg and Ellis also labeled a “third sex” generate and abnormal.

Sigmund Frd, wrg the same era, did not nsir homosexualy an illns or a crime and believed bisexualy to be an nate aspect begng wh untermed genr velopment the womb.

” German rearcher Magn Hirschfeld went on to gather a broar range of rmatn by foundg Berl’s Instute for Sexual Science, Europe’s bt library archive of materials on gay cultural history. His efforts, and Germany’s more liberal laws and thrivg gay bar scene between the two World Wars, ntrasted wh the backlash, England, agast gay and lbian wrers such as Osr Wil and Radclyffe Hall. However, prewar gay life flourished urban centers such as New York’s Greenwich Village and Harlem durg the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.