Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
- FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
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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.
FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
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.