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From the first pro-gay film to the trailblazg lears who worked to make the world a better place for queer people, the are the famo LGBTQ firsts.

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A GAY FIRST LADY? Y, WE’VE ALREADY HAD ONE, AND HERE ARE HER LOVE LETTERS.

The Washgton Post has a story today about Ameri's first gay first lady. She was Grover Cleveland's sister Rose, who acted as his first lady bee he was elected whout a wife. In the summer of 1910, Evangele Simpson Whipple told the retaker of her home not to move anythg her absence. The wealthy… * first gay first lady *

The Washgton Post has a story today about Ameri’s first gay first lady. Rose Cleveland was not the only gay first lady.

A GAY FIRST LADY? Y, WE’VE ALREADY HAD ONE, AND HERE ARE HER LOVE LETTERS.

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The revelatn of Rose and Evangele’s love affair also unrsr an important fact that had been lost to history: a gay woman sat as First Lady of the Uned Stat.

Then, read how some historians believe Jam Buchanan was the first gay print of the Uned Stat.

A GAY FIRST LADY? Y, WE’VE ALREADY HAD ONE, AND HERE ARE HER LOVE LETTERS.

When bachelor (and mored gay lover of William Ruf Kg) Buchanan beme print 1857, Lane took up the post of first lady. Pete Buttigieg’s hband, Chasten, uld make history by beg the First Gentleman of the Uned Stat if the Democratic hopeful ws 2020, but the honor of beg the ial gay First Signifint Other of the Uned Stat already belongs to someone else.

And Pete Buttigieg's hband, Chasten, would be not only the first "first gentleman" but the first gay one should Mayor Pete w the princy. In Bros, which may or may not be the first major gay rom-, Billy Eichner’s character is workg on another big first, openg the first major LGBTQ history mm.

As part of that job, he spends much of the film discsg whether var historil figur were gay, cludg Abraham Lln and the ancient Egyptian pairg of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. (In both of those s pends who you ask, and what you mean by “gay. Chigo's first openly gay, female, Ain-Amerin mayor arriv office wh another first: an openly gay first lady.

WASHGTON POST: AMERI’S FIRST GAY FIRST LADY REVEALED

Their openns as a married gay uple had three effects on the mpaign, says Brian Johnson, CEO of Equaly Illois, a Chigo-based nonprof dited to LGBTQ rights. In late March, anti-gay flyers appeared on rs the parkg lots of Bronzeville church. " Lightfoot shot back, llg the ment a "dog whistle" to anti-gay voters.

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.

FORMER FIRST LADY'S GAY LOVE LETTERS REVEAL A LBIAN AFFAIR WH A WOMAN THAT LASTED THIRTY YEARS

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.

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It was the first gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat. Eisenhower that banned gay people om attag jobs ernment offic (1953).

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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

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.

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.

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Jacksonville Jaguars Assistant Coach Kev Maxen Com Out as Gay.

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