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Contents:
- 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’
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay guy running *
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.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Pete Buttigieg, a gay Democrat, said he's nng for print bee he se this a matter of phg ahead wh what he lls "ter-generatnal jtice." * gay guy running *
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. 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.
A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
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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). 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.
ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT
At least 843 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people currently serve elected offic across the U.S., acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Instute. * gay guy running *
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. 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.
WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N
The tth behd Twter’s favore stereotype about gay men, as explaed by GQ ntributor Louis Stapl. * gay guy running *
But one thg is for sure: Havg a gay ndidate – or nomee, or print – is no longer such a farfetched ia.
THIS GAY MARE FELL LOVE WH NNG WHILE HE WAS STATNED IRAQ
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. 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.
FIRST NGRSNAL RACE BETWEEN TWO GAY NOME MARKS PROGRS FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT
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.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: Todd Gloria, a gay man, is nng to bee the first out mayor of San Diego, the send-largt cy California.
WHY DO GAY MEN WALK SO FAST?
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.