This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years.
Contents:
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- 11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- 30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- FAMO GAYS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * historic gay people *
Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. 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. Advertisement - Contue Readg Below2 Barbara GtgsShutterstockGtgs beme a csar for gay rights a before the Stonewall rebelln.
In addn to lnchg the New York chapter of the lbian anizatn, Dghters of Bilis (which she ran form 1958 to 1963), she eded their natnal magaze and was known for standg ont and center picket l prottg anti-gay discrimatn.
Advertisement - Contue Readg Below3 Bayard RtGetty ImagRt never hid his homosexualy while fightg alongsi Dr. They were the first same-sex uple married 2004 after the cy clerk was orred to provi marriage licens to gay upl.
11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
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) He was also a key player gettg the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn to no longer list homosexualy as a mental disorr. The 1950s by anizg a secret society lled Bachelors Anonymo unr the ia that homosexual rights was somethg worth pursug jt like any other mory group.
He won a spot on the Cy-County Board 1977 after earng the nickname "Mayor of Castro Street, " makg him the first openly gay elected official California.
Milk spent his time on the board workg on many issu cludg gay rights before his assassatn November 1978. Advertisement - Contue Readg Below14 Jam BaldwGetty ImagBaldw was wrg gay and bisexual characters years before the LGBTQ movement fully took form and up until his ath 1987.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
Christian fundamentalists ntue to ntend that homosexualy don't exist, and that gay people choose their liftyle whout any blogil predisposn. They further argue that homosexualy * historic gay people *
Advertisement - Contue Readg Below17 Karl Herich UlrichsAlamyRevered as a pneer of the morn gay rights movement, Ulrich was a German wrer creded as the first person to publicly "e out" 1862. Urlichs later rejected the term "homosexual, " bee he felt queer inty went beyond jt sexual acts.
Advertisement - Contue Readg Below18 Larry KramerGetty ImagKramer rose to lerary fame the 1970s focg his work on the gay experience. He turned to activism durg the AIDS epimic the early '80s and helped lnched the Gay Men's Health Crisis 1982.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Kev Maxen, assistant ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the first openly gay ach of a U.S. men’s profsnal league sport * historic gay people *
Advertisement - Contue Readg Below19 Leonard MatlovichGetty ImagMatlovich stood up to the ary's ban on gay service members by g out a letter to his mandg officer 1975. Advertisement - Contue Readg Below20 Magn HirschfeldGetty ImagHirschfeld was a German doctor who began studyg sexualy while livg Berl 1896 wh a foc on homosexualy.
Whether or not some of the people were publicly regnized as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, or "queer" any sense of the word vari pendg on the person and their history.
30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
Rishi Sunak has apologised on behalf of the Government for the 'horrific' historic treatment of LGBTQ+ people servg the ary. Servg personnel spected of beg gay, lbian, bisexual or... * historic gay people *
Dpe his service, however, Turg was prosecuted by his ernment for beg a homosexual relatnship.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Maxen is the first ever male ach Amerin men's sports to e out as gay. * historic gay people *
Bayard Rt bravely walked the dangero world of social and polil movements the '40s as an openly gay Black man fightg for both Black and LGBTQ+ rights durg a time when was practilly illegal to be eher Ameri. Baldw's wrten works addrsed sexualy, race, and class, brgg light to issu that both Black Amerins and gay Amerins faced durg his lifetime. As a rult, Baldw and his work are scribed as tersectnal, providg a perspective rmed by both racism and homophobia that gay Black Amerins would experience.
Warhol lived his life as a gay man, sometim relayg his sexualy through drawgs of nu men; much of his work n be found mms around the world today. Nicknamed the "Mayor of Castro Street, " Harvey Milk was an openly gay polician San Francis noted for his energy and charisma.
While he ially lost an electn for the San Francis Board of Supervisors, Milk would ntue to serve his lol gay muny through other means, foundg the San Francis Gay Democratic Club and eventually wng a seat on the Board of Supervisors. While Hollywood heartthrob Tab Hunter had a reer begng back the 1950s, wasn't until 2005 when the "Damn Yanke" star publicly me out as gay.
FAMO GAYS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. * historic gay people *
Que possibly the most proment player the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s and 1970s was Marsha P.
As a transgenr woman, Johnson faced abe om police and had no permanent home while workg as a drag queen and wars, but she would fd herself the ontl of gay rights protts after police raid the Stonewall Inn 1969. Johnson then beme a -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front and Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari, workg to provi shelter and safety to trans youth via STAR Hoe and beg a prolific performer—unfortunately, Johnson was found ad the Hudson River 1992, and while police led her ath a suici, iends and many observers spect foul play led to the revolutnary figure's untimely passg. When playwright and activist Larry Kramer published his say “1, 112 and Countg” 1983, AIDS was a highly stigmatized, ltle unrstood disease primarily affectg gay men.