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• BEG OUT: ELE GAY NNER DAVID MELLY PROUD OF HIS ‘WEIRDNS’
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
• ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT
• WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N
• THIS GAY MARE FELL LOVE WH NNG WHILE HE WAS STATNED IRAQ
• FIRST NGRSNAL RACE BETWEEN TWO GAY NOME MARKS PROGRS FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT
• WHY DO GAY MEN WALK SO FAST?

BEG OUT: ELE GAY NNER DAVID MELLY PROUD OF HIS ‘WEIRDNS’

In 2013, Matt Llano me out publicly as gay when he published a blog post tled “It’s Time” on his personal webse. Alone as an openly gay athlete when he joed the cross untry and track and field teams 2011, Melly was pleased that his senr season three of the five top nners intified as LGBT.

It eaked me out a b at first when I started gettg msag om other gay athlet, often younger kids and teens, who found me and felt my story ronated wh them. walkg club for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people (LGBT) and their iends and supporters. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

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

Should Buttigieg w his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomatn, he will bee the first nomee of a major polil party who publicly intifi as gay. That a gay married man is nng a ser mpaign for print, however, is a big al, and we shouldn’t let the improbabily of his ndidacy stop om acknowledgg this moment.

Barack Obama beme Print, and although he was supportive of expandg legal rights for the LGBT muny and gay upl, he was on the rerd durg his mpaign as beg opposed to same-sex marriage. In 2010, Print Obama signed to law the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act, endg a policy enacted 1993 that prevent gay men and lbians om servg openly the ary. Three years later, the Supreme Court led that stat nnot ban same-sex marriage, makg legal natnwi for gay and lbian upl to marry.

And durg this time, ndidat who publicly intify as gay, bisexual and transgenr have broken barriers wh their ws. In 2012, Wisns’s Tammy Baldw beme the first gay person elected to the US Senate (she was re-elected 2018).

A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.

In last year’s midterm electns, Colorado’s Jared Polis beme the first gay man the US to be elected ernor, Kyrsten Sema, who is bisexual, won a US Senate seat Arizona, and Sharice Davids, a lbian, won her US Hoe race Kansas. All of this is to say, que simply, that a relatively brief perd of time, the polics surroundg gay marriage and LGBT equaly shifted dramatilly.

ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT

For a lol stunt stgglg wh her sexualy, might be helpful for an openly gay mayor to send the msage that her muny will always have a place for her. And for a nservative rint om a different generatn, whose unease wh social change is partly rooted the imprsn that he don’t know anyone gay, perhaps a faiar face n be a remr that we’re all this together as a muny. But one thg is for sure: Havg a gay ndidate – or nomee, or print – is no longer such a farfetched ia.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Mondaire Jon and Rchie Torr, nng separate New York districts, stand to bee the first openly gay Ain-Amerins eher hoe of Congrs. Torr would also be the first gay Ao-Latx California, lbian Geette Gomez is nng to bee the first LGBTQ+ Lata Congrs. Several other stat have a chance to elect their first LGBTQ+ reprentativ: Indiana, Pat Hackett, a lbian; Michigan, Jon Hoadley, a gay man; Washgton State, Beth Dogl, a bisexual woman.

WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N

STATEWIDE OFFICES:Bryce Bent, a gay man nng for Montana secretary of state, would be the first out statewi elected official there.

Both have already won their Liias, a gay man nng for litenant ernor Washgton State, would be the first out ndidate to w statewi office other than a judicial office. STATE LEGISLATURES: In Florida, gay man Shevr Jon is nng to bee the first state senator om the LGBTQ+ populatn, while lbian Michele Rayner would be the first Black woman om our muny the state's Hoe of Reprentativ. If he ws, he'll bee the first LGBTQ+ legislator of lor the Empire Mack, a lbian, is nng to bee the first Black LGBTQ+ state senator Rho Island, but first she mt face homophobic cumbent Harold Betts the September 8 Democratic primary.

Wisns State Assembly ndidate Jsi Katzenmeyer is seekg to bee the state's first out trans Jackson, a Black lbian, is nng to bee the first out member of the Geia State Harris and Brandon Thomas, both Black gay men nng for the Tennsee Hoe, would be the first out members of the legislature there. He fac Republin Bob Bnton Snow, a gay Black man nng for Nebraska State Senate, would be that state's first LGBTQ+ legislator of lor.

THIS GAY MARE FELL LOVE WH NNG WHILE HE WAS STATNED IRAQ

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: Todd Gloria, a gay man, is nng to bee the first out mayor of San Diego, the send-largt cy California. The first openly gay man to n for print the history of the Uned Stat is receivg a lot of qutns about how to rrectly pronounce his tongue-twistg fay Buttigieg, a Democrat, is currently mayor of the cy of South Bend, Indiana. As of last unt, 24 Democrats have dited or have actually entered the race to bee the party’s printial what has aroed the tert of Ameri’s polil ele is that Buttigieg is a proud openly gay man.

SAN FRANCISCO – When Donald Bell was growg up a small town Illois, the only place to get rmatn about beg gay was the public library. “In the Webster’s unabridged dictnary, when you got to the entry for homosexualy there were smudg bee a lot of people had been there.

FIRST NGRSNAL RACE BETWEEN TWO GAY NOME MARKS PROGRS FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT

The same wh the Encyclopedia Branni entry, ” said Bell, years later, when Bell was a llege stunt the 1960s, beg gay was illegal. Now Pete Buttigieg, an openly gay man, is nng for print of the Uned Stat and leadg some Democratic primary fact, The D Mo Register's Iowa Poll found 25% of Iowa's likely Democratic uc-goers said he was their first choice for print, btg rivals Joe Bin, Bernie Sanrs and Elizabeth Warren, all of whom were about 10 percentage pots behd the South Bend, Ind., Poll:Print Tmp's populary sky-high among registered RepublinsThe Iowa uc are the first a seri of state ntts 2020.

3 uc giv ndidat momentum and natnal attentn as they head to the three other early stat that prece the huge chunk of legat at stake on Super Tuday many olr gay Amerins, Buttigieg's ndidacy is an important moment.

“Mayor Pete’s not nng as a gay ndidate, he’s embracg who he is all s dimensn, cludg beg an openly gay man who’s married to his hband, ” said JoDee Wterhof, senr vice print for policy and polil affairs wh the Human Rights Campaign, a LGBTQ civil rights anizatn based Washgton, D.

WHY DO GAY MEN WALK SO FAST?

The qutn of whether an openly gay man n be elected print of the Uned Stat is still an open one, but polls make seem ls impossible than once might have seemed. Buttigieg has stood out not for beg gay but for wng over voters wh his telligence, msage of uny and lls for “Medire for all who want ” and keepg private surance but also makg a ernment-backed health surance optn ’s not for ee llege but has a plan for public lleg to be ee for stunts om fai earng ls than $100, 000 a se the Green New Deal as a set of goals for alg wh climate change but not as a way to overhl the enomy. That has turned some voters, cludg gay on, off bee he isn’t more progrsive an electn season when Sens.

It had Tmp losg to Bin Geia by 8 percentage pots, 51%-43%, Sanrs wng 48%-44% and Warren ahead numbers aren’t surprisg given that 66% of Amerins support marriage equaly, and every state at least 50% of voters support legal equaly for gay people, Wterhof said. Roughly 37% of rponnts a POLITICO/Morng Consult poll late October said they were eher fely or probably not ready for a gay print, while 50% of rponnts said that wasn’t an issue for them.