7 openly gay lears have served as heads of state. Latvian print Edgars Rkēvičs is the latt

Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• WHO WAS KARL HERICH ULRICHS? MEET THE FIRST MAN TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO BE GAY?
• MEET THE 19TH CENTURY TRAILBLAZER WHO FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS BEFORE THE WORD HOMOSEXUAL EVEN EXISTED

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

When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.

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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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.

Sunday’s “Great Midwtern Trendkill” event wasn’t the first time out gay pro wrtler AC Mack stepped to a Naptown All-Pro Wrtlg rg, but will be his last. He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month.

THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a woman.He said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3,000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos".He relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage"."It was so sweet seeg him so happy," Mr Cabreza said.

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.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

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.

In his says, Ulrichs lled gay men ‘Urng’ – a term spired by a sectn Plato’s philosophil text Symposium – and lbians as ‘Dng’. Ulrichs’ fns were ground-breakg for the time – wasn’t until 1869 that Atrian wrer Karl-Maria Kertbeny ed the term “homosexual.

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. ”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.

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

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.

After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!

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

Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020.

The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. “There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent. 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.

THE OLST GAYS HISTORY

The rts—which took place after a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy—served as a talyst for the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and across the globe. To honor that, we've round up some of the most historic firsts om the LGBTQ muny, om the first pro-gay film to the first state to repeal sodomy laws. Der Eigene (The Own), which was published om 1896 to 1932 by Adolf Brand om Berl, Germany, is nsired the first gay journal the world, acrdg to Out magaze.

Throughout the perdil's nearly 40 years of publitn, vered topics like homosexualy and bisexualy a number of lerary and artistic ways, cludg poetry, prose, polil manifto, and nu photography.

One of the mtee's first iativ was a petn to repeal Paragraph 175, an anti-gay piece of legislatn Germany's Imperial Penal Co, which crimalized sexual acts between men. And then, of urse, there were the sodomy laws that had been place each state for s, which ma engagg homosexual acts a crimal offense. In 1961, Illois beme the first state to repeal those sodomy laws and crimalize homosexual ntact between nsentg adults, acrdg to the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Five months after the rts, activists Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Ellen Brody, and Lda Rhos ma a proposn at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns that there be an annual march New York Cy to memorate the event on the last Saturday of every June, acrdg to Back then, was lled the Christopher Street Liberatn Day, although the march was a precursor to what would later bee the NYC Pri March that still tak place today. Multiple LGBT rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance, me together to form this march—and The New York Tim reported that participants took up nearly 15 cy blocks at the ial march.

WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO BE GAY?

Released 1972, this Amerin ma-for-TV drama that premiered on ABC was the first to offer a sympathetic portrayal of homosexualy. In a 2007 terview wh The Dallas Voice, Sheen was asked if he had any hatn acceptg the role of a gay man the early 1970s.

He noted that he'd "robbed banks and kidnapped children and murred people" past rol and that he uldn't unrstand why people thought that "choosg to play a gay guy" was "nsired a reer enr. After participatg New York Cy's Christopher Street Liberatn Day 1972, Jeanne Manford (who's seen holdg the "parents" sign the photo above), the mother of Morty Manford, a gay man, created PFLAG 1973.

Acrdg to the PFLAG webse, she cid to start the support group bee of her experience at the march, where "many gay and lbian people ran up to [her] … and begged her to talk to their parents [for them].

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

Its creatn spired siar groups offerg "'safe havens' and mutual support for parents wh gay and lbian children" across the untry, acrdg to s webse. In April of 1997, Ellen Degener, then the star of the ABC s Ellen, appeared on the ver of Time magaze alongsi the ver le "Yep, I'm Gay.

And jt hours after that terview, DeGener' character on Ellen me out as gay as well an episo famoly lled "The Puppy Episo, " acrdg to Vany Fair. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.