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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- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: EARLY PNEERS OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
This list of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr firsts by year not pneerg LGBT enavors anized chronologilly. Openly LGBT people rema a mographic mory most plac. In areas that historilly are not known for havg LGBT people who do not rema closeted, a "first" n make easier for other openly LGBT persons to enter the field or for those who are closeted to e out. Openly LGBT people beg visible society affects societal attus toward homosexualy, bisexualy, and the transgenr muny on a wir level. One monly ced example is Michael McConnell and Jack Baker, the first openly gay uple to apply for a marriage license 1971. Another is Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to polil office California, beg the most visible LGBT polician the world the 1970s, after s of ristance to LGBT people by mastream culture. Milk enuraged LGBT people to "e out of the closet" durg his speech; as a rult of his work and his assassatn—along wh San Francis mayor Gee Mosne—thoands of ordary people did so. In 2002, Milk was lled "the most famo and most signifintly open LGBT official ever elected the Uned Stat". * first gay leader *
This list of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) firsts by year not pneerg LGBT enavors anized chronologilly. Openly LGBT people beg visible society affects societal attus toward homosexualy, bisexualy, and the transgenr muny on a wir level.
One monly ced example is Michael McConnell and Jack Baker, the first openly gay uple to apply for a marriage license 1971. Another is Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to polil office California, beg the most visible LGBT polician the world the 1970s, after s of ristance to LGBT people by mastream culture. To date, there have been five openly LGBTQ+ people who have served as a natnal head of ernment, Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Serbia -- but gay, bisexual, lbian, and even transgenr lears have guid natns sce time immemorial.
That he sat on the throne named Neferkare leads many scholars to believe the tale Kg Neferkare and General Sase, which scrib a gay relatnship between a pharaoh and his general, was fact about Pepi, though Egyptologists ntue to bate if the story was tth or fictn. The dictator of the cy of Athens 514, Hipparch had ma a sexual advance toward the openly gay Harmodi and was rejected multiple tim, acrdg to historian Thucydis.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
While openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr world lears are still a rary, there are a few who are breakg barriers. * first gay leader *
But history also remembers Ai of Han for his effive homosexualy. The ler of England om 1087 to 1100, Kg William II was gay, acrdg to the wrer Eadmer, though effemate mannerisms and fashn choic seemed his primary evince.
Richard the Lnheart has been picted as gay books and films, most famoly by Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter. Much of the talk of his purported homosexualy stems om the time he spent wh Kg Phillip II of France 1187. He would produce no heirs of his own and was plagued by mors of homosexualy his lifetime.
The grand de of Tny om 1621 until 1670, Ferdando married and produced children, but also quarreled wh his mother, Maria Madla of Atria, about whether homosexualy should be outlawed. Historians say the mother once gave her son a list of reported gay people and said that they should be burned. Many historians believe the men were engaged a homosexual relatnship, not unmon the era.
LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: EARLY PNEERS OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * first gay leader *
It was briefly a gay old time the Whe Hoe wh Lln succeedg Buchanan office.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year. * first gay leader *
Likely Ameri's first gay print, Democrat Jam Buchanan won the electn of 1856 -- rallyg support om the slaveholdg stat the origal Southern Strategy.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
* first gay leader *
Oh, and he was openly gay.
Kev Maxen, assistant ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the first openly gay ach of a U.S. men’s profsnal league sport * first gay leader *
In addn to beg the first openly gay prime mister of the island natn, the 38-year-old was the youngt head of ernment for the untry and the first member of an ethnic mory to hold the post (his father is an Indian immigrant).
" Beyond her LGBTQ activism, DeLarverie also anized and performed at fundraisers for women who suffered om domtic vlence and their Jam Baldw (Photo by Ted Thai)The LIFE Picture Collectn/GettyJam Baldw (1924-1987)A wrer and social cric, Baldw is perhaps bt known for his 1955 llectn of says, "Not of a Native Son, " and his groundbreakg 1956 novel, "Gvanni's Room, " which picts them of homosexualy and bisexualy. Baldw spent a majory of his lerary and activist reer tg others about Black and queer inty, as he did durg his famo lecture tled “Race, Racism, and the Gay Communy” at a meetg of the New York chapter of Black and Whe Men Together (now known as Men of All Colors Together) and playwright Lorrae Hansberry her New York Cy apartment April Attie / Getty ImagLorrae Hansberry (1930-1965)Hansberry was an activist and playwright bt known for her groundbreakg play “A Rais the Sun, ” about a stgglg Black fay on Chigo’s South Si. The inic work was then ma to a 1961 film starrg Sidney Poier and Ruby to “A Rais the Sun” fame, Hansberry — who never publicly acknowledged she was a lbian — joed lbian rights group Dghters of Bilis and ntributed letters about femism and homophobia to s magaze, “The Ladr, ” acrdg to LGBTQ historian Eric Marc, host of the “Makg Gay History” podst.