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LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

Almost half of the Gay and Lbian teens state they have attempted suici more than once.

He also played a major role World War II, helpg break several German the '50s, he told police that he had homosexual relatns wh a man and was arrted for gross cency. The followg year, he published his groundbreakg novel "Gvanni's Room" — s ma character is a gay man.

Rt was also an openly gay man, so he often spoke about the importance of fightg for LGBTQ rights.

FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE

Before the Stonewall rts, Barbara Gtgs was on the ontl, attemptg to normalize homosexualy. Beyond that, the activist was important reversg the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's belief that homosexualy was a mental illns. As a drag performer, a sex worker, and a self-intified transvte, Johnson played a major role the historic Stonewall rts 1969 that jump-started the gay liberatn the rts, Johnson beme a lear the muny and ed the power to open Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari, which helped transgenr youth.

Sylvia Rivera was a gay and transgenr activist, but she's maly known for her role at the Stonewall rts. Billie Jean Kg, a profsnal tennis player, was outed as a lbian 1981 and beme the first openly gay athlete. Harvey Milk was one of the first openly gay policians to ever be elected California.

In 1978, Harvey Milk asked his iend Gilbert Baker to make a symbol that would reprent gay pri. Although historians pot out ad nseam the so-lled appropriatens of applyg morn nstcts such as "gay, " "bisexual, " "homosexual, " or "queer" to an ancient kg like Alexanr, no ser historian doubts that history's penultimate warrr-monarch was attracted to men. Frd somehow duced hundreds of years after Leonardo's ath that the artist was homosexual, but (ahem) celibate.

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