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• WHO WAS KARL HERICH ULRICHS? MEET THE FIRST MAN TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
• THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• WHO WERE THE FIRST GAY COUPLE HISTORY?ALLEGEDLY THE FIRST SAME-SEX UPL HISTORYBELDA MALLASASIME·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE STORY HISTORY·3 M READ·JUL 13, 2021--SHAREPHOTO BY SHIL NASH ON UNSPLASHIN 1964, WHILE EXVATG THE ARTERY OF THE PYRAMID OF KG UNAS, AN EGYPTOLOGIST NAMED AHMED MOSA DISVERED A TOMB AT SAQQARA EGYPT, THAT HAD THE SCRIPTNS OF TWO MEN LISTED AS “ROYAL NFIDANTS” THEIR JOT TOMB. THE SCRIPTN ALSO HAD THE NAME “KHNUMHOTEP” WRTEN ON THE RIGHT AND “NIANKHKHNUM” ON THE LEFT,THE NAM OF THE MEN SCRIBED ON THE TOMB ARE BELIEVED TO BE BOTH EMBEDD NAM TO THE CREATOR-GOD KHNUM THAT FORM A LGUISTIC REFERENCE TO THEIR LEVEL OF TIMACY. WH KHNUMHOTEP MEANG “KHNUM IS SATISFIED” AND NIANKHKHNUM MEANG “LIFE BELONGS TO KHNUM”.THE TOMB HAPPENED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WH THE NECROPOLIS WHERE HIEROGLYPHS DISPLAY TWO MEN POSNS THAT APPEAR TO BE SOME SORT OF TIMATE (HOLDG HANDS, EMBRACG, STANDG FACE TO FACE WH BOTH NOS TOUCHG, AND LAYG AGAST EACH OTHER). THOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN BAT ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE ACTUALLY A UPLE, MANY SCHOLARS BELIEVE NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP TO BE THE FIRST SAME-SEX UPLE HISTORY.NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP WH THEIR OFFSPRG (PHOTO SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA)KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM
• THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY PRI

WHO WAS KARL HERICH ULRICHS? MEET THE FIRST MAN TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Or even LGBTQIA+ History terms for the muny of people that enpass people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual are as broad as that muny self: As society’s unrstandg, regnn, and cln of diverse sexual inti and genr exprsns has grown, so has s acronym.

Over time, grew populary and was adopted by women who secretly, then proudly, loved other dawn of “homosexualy” and “bisexualy”Karl Herich Ulrichs, a 19th century German lawyer and wrer who may have intified as gay, was the first to try to label his own muny. In 1869, the Pssian ernment ntemplated addg language that forba male same-genr sexual activy to s rponse, Kertbeny wrote a passnate, anonymo open letter to the Pssian mister of jtice llg the proposed law “shockg nonsense” and g the word “homosexualy, ” which he had prevly ed a private letter to Ulrichs.

Early gay rights groups and practners of the growg field of psychology eventually adopted the Reclaimg a slurIn the late 1960s, activists reclaimed a s-old slur, “gay. Activists also began g other terms like social variant, viant, and “homophile, ” which means “same love, ” an effort to sistep monly ed slurs, emphasize the lovg relatnships of same-genr relatnships, and prott discrimatory laws.

LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH

The words were ed “as the means whereby dividuals uld make sense of their own experienc, their active-unrgog of beg homosexual a homophobic environment, ” wr soclogist J.

“Transgenr” be part of LGBTIn the 1990s, the longstandg bonds between lbian, gay, and bisexual people both daily life and liberatn activism led to the wispread adoptn of the LGB acronym (lbian, gay and bisexual) took longer to ga acceptance for another term that is now part of the morn acronym: “transgenr. Wrers Marty Feldman and Barry Took e gay slang Polari the nuendo-laced Julian and Sandy sketch Round the Horne, wh leral straight-man Kenh Horne.

Bona = good, dolly = pretty, eke (ef) = face, lalli = legs, naff = bbish/poor, nanty = no/nothg, ogle = look/eye, omi = man, omipalone = gay man, palone = woman, riah = hair, varda = seeRound the Horne, Sunday 7 March 1965, 14.

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The stud-based play is billed as ‘a smopolan London uple (Glenda Jackson and Aled Lynch) fd their outwardly charmed liv upend by a troubled homosexual iend (Nil Williamson)’. It do not ver the Merchant Navy or the Armed Forc, do not extend to Stland or Northern Ireland, and do not equalise the discrimatory age of nsent for gay men.

Man Alive broadsts two edns weeks ahead of the Act lookg at the liv of gay men and lbians Alive: Consentg Adults: 2: The Women, BBC Two, Wednday 14 June 1967, 1970s: Breakthrough. Negative portrayals of the LGBT+ muny on televisn are wispread at this time, but radil for s day, toward the end of this episo of Steptoe and Son a gay police officer is troduced, whout all the ual stereotyped characterisatns. A play based around a rearcher's disvery of thker and early gay rights mpaigner Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) Other Si: Only Connect, Friday 18 May 1979, 21.

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

But Lewis is actually a life-long homosexual and when he rashly ntribut an article to a gay magaze, looks as though he may be forced to clare himself. Meanwhile science strand Horizon broadsts Killer the Village, the first full-length -pth UK documentary on the health crisis emergg New York’s gay village known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDS.

Most LGBT+ performers om Freddie Mercury to Gee Michael keep their sexualy quiet as the mic dtry mands, but two new bands wh out-gay members and lyrics wh gay them break nventn wh their h but sgl Frankie Go to Hollywood’s ‘Relax’ and Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown Boy’. Trans activist Paris Le wrote ‘Kyle’s entrance to EastEnrs is a cultural landmark on a par wh the show’s first gay character the 80s.

50 years on om the first relaxg of anti-LGBT+ laws, the BBC’s major Gay Brannia season looks back at LGBT+ history and tells many new stori om different perspectiv about life for LGBT+ people 2017. Rearch by Simon Rooks, BBC, & Stephen Bourne, thor, Playg Gay the Goln Age of Brish TV, History Prs, 2019, and Playg Gay, BBC Rearch Blog, 2019. In fact, Ulrichs is wily creded as the pneer of the morn gay rights movement, and is famo for makg his own words up to scribe gay men, lbians, bisexuals and tersex people.

WHO WERE THE FIRST GAY COUPLE HISTORY?ALLEGEDLY THE FIRST SAME-SEX UPL HISTORYBELDA MALLASASIME·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE STORY HISTORY·3 M READ·JUL 13, 2021--SHAREPHOTO BY SHIL NASH ON UNSPLASHIN 1964, WHILE EXVATG THE ARTERY OF THE PYRAMID OF KG UNAS, AN EGYPTOLOGIST NAMED AHMED MOSA DISVERED A TOMB AT SAQQARA EGYPT, THAT HAD THE SCRIPTNS OF TWO MEN LISTED AS “ROYAL NFIDANTS” THEIR JOT TOMB. THE SCRIPTN ALSO HAD THE NAME “KHNUMHOTEP” WRTEN ON THE RIGHT AND “NIANKHKHNUM” ON THE LEFT,THE NAM OF THE MEN SCRIBED ON THE TOMB ARE BELIEVED TO BE BOTH EMBEDD NAM TO THE CREATOR-GOD KHNUM THAT FORM A LGUISTIC REFERENCE TO THEIR LEVEL OF TIMACY. WH KHNUMHOTEP MEANG “KHNUM IS SATISFIED” AND NIANKHKHNUM MEANG “LIFE BELONGS TO KHNUM”.THE TOMB HAPPENED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WH THE NECROPOLIS WHERE HIEROGLYPHS DISPLAY TWO MEN POSNS THAT APPEAR TO BE SOME SORT OF TIMATE (HOLDG HANDS, EMBRACG, STANDG FACE TO FACE WH BOTH NOS TOUCHG, AND LAYG AGAST EACH OTHER). THOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN BAT ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE ACTUALLY A UPLE, MANY SCHOLARS BELIEVE NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP TO BE THE FIRST SAME-SEX UPLE HISTORY.NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP WH THEIR OFFSPRG (PHOTO SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA)KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM

Afterwards, he worked the civil service of Hanover until 1854, when he stepped down before he uld be dismissed over his homosexual activy. Between 1863 and 1865, Ulrichs wrote a seri of five says published as Forschungen über das Rätsel r mannmännlichen Liebe (Studi on the Riddle of Male-Male Love), which he provid his own terms for gay men, lbians, bisexuals and tersex people.

" 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.

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Now 79, Miss Major, known to many simply as “Mama, ” ris Ltle Rock, Arkansas, where she ntu to be a vol Sprg's mayor Ron On, April 18, Khan / LA Tim via Getty ImagRon On (Born 1950)When On was elected mayor of Palm Sprgs, California 2003, he ma history by beg the first openly gay Ain Amerin man elected mayor of an Amerin cy. The first gay pri march took place New York Cy on June 28, 1970 — the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall holdg Christopher Street Liberatn Day banner, Davi / New York Public LibraryOct.

Each week’s feature will clu imag om the New York Public Library’s LGBTQ week, we look back at the untry’s first gay pri march — held New York Cy on June 28, 1970, the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts — and what led up to that historic Saturday morng on June 28, 1969, police staged a raid at the Stonewall Inn, a mafia-n gay bar New York Cy's Greenwich Village neighborhood. The ps barrid themselv to the bar, and then the gay mob outsi the bar began to throw bricks and rocks toward the door and tried to break through the board up Stonewall Inn, September 1969.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

The sign the wdow reads: “WE HOMOSEXUALS PLEAD WITH OUR PEOPLE TO PLEASE HELP MAINTAIN PEACEFUL AND QUIET CONDUCT ON THE STREETS OF THE VILLAGE — MATTACHINE” Diana Davi / New York Public LibraryJt a few days after the Stonewall Rts, gay activist Frank Kameny load up a b wh fellow activists and head down to Philalphia for the fifth “annual remr” picket prott outsi Inpennce Hall. Acrdg to historian and thor Lillian Farman, the picket protts were “staid” and reflected Kameny’s sire for gay tegratn to society and the workforce.

“I thk that was probably Frank’s first realizatn that this was a new orr, thgs were changg, ” Farman days after the "annual remr, " on July 6, 1969, the New York tabloid The Daily News ran a homophobic article about the Stonewall raid by Frank Lisky, tled “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad.

”Activists Lda Rhos, Arlene Khner, and Ellen Davi / New York Public LibrarySoon after the 1969 "remr", four activists — Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Lda Rhos and Ellen Broidy — cid to attend a regnal “homophile” nference and “propose that the staid ‘annual remrs’ of homophile pickets at Inpennce Hall Philalphia, held every July 4 for the prev five years, be replaced by a march New York Cy, " Farman men were members of the Homophile Youth Movement Neighborhoods, and the women members of Lavenr Menace. The march stretched 15 blocks — three quarters of a e — at s longt, The New York Tim march end Central Park's Sheep’s Meadow, where the Tim wrote marchers "gathered to prott laws that make homosexual acts between nsentg adults illegal and social ndns that often make impossible for them to display affectn public, mata jobs or rent apartments.

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”Michael Brown, who is named by the Tim as a founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, told Tim reporter Lacey Fosburgh: “We have to e out to the open and stop beg ashamed, or else people will go on treatg as eaks. ”At the end of the march, protters gathered Central Park's Sheep's Meadow for a gay "be-"Diana Davi / New York Public LibraryLater that same day, Los Angel held a “Christopher Street Wt” celebratn on Hollywood Boulevard that drew thoands.

Pl Hoton reported the Los Angel Tim on the “hour-long, e-long procsn” down Hollywood Boulevard: “Sunday eveng had many thgs — joyo monstrators for sexual rights and digny, some sual attire, others briefs, ‘queens’ drag, ‘fairi’ wh paper wgs, clowns, leather-jacketed motorcyclists, a lbian on horseback, a python, whe hki, Amerin flags, hilar and somber signs and chants, a float pictg a homosexual nailed to the cross. “We're beg ant, and we won't be harassed and grad any more, ” Mart Robson, a member of the Gay Activist Alliance, told The New York Tim.

NYPL has the archiv of pivotal anizatns, such as the Mattache Society of New York and the Gay Activists Alliance; the papers of pneerg activists like Barbara Gtgs; and vast holdgs LGBTQ pop culture. The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned.