The history of 'g out,' om secret gay to popular polil prott

Contents:

• WHO WAS KARL HERICH ULRICHS? MEET THE FIRST MAN TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG BE 1ST GAY MAN ON A BRISH BANK NOTE
• HOW CONGRSMAN GERRY STUDDS MA HISTORY BY COMG OUT AS GAY
• BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
• THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO PLAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

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

In my 2020 book“Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are, ”, I explore the history of this term, om the earlit days of the gay rights movement, to today, when has been adopted by other movements. Gay men spoke of “g out” to gay society – borrowg the term om butante society, where ele young women me out to high society.

The Mattache Society, the earlit important anizatn of what was known as the homophile movement – a precursor of the gay rights movement – took s name om myster medieval figur masks. The term “gay” was origally borrowed om the slang of women prostut, when they ed the word to refer to women their profsn.

At the first Gay Liberatn March New York Cy June 1970, one of the anizers stated that “we’ll never have the eedom and civil rights we serve as human begs unls we stop hidg closets and the shelter of anonymy.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

By the end of the 1960s, queer people who pretend to be heterosexual were said to be “ the closet” or labeled a “closet se” or, the se of gay men, “closet queens. For stance, 1978, his mpaign to feat a California iative that would have banned gay teachers om workg state public schools, openly gay elected ernment official Harvey Milk urged people to “Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are.

Milk gambled that if queer people told their iends they were gay, Californians would realize that they had iends, workers and fay members who were gay and – out of solidary – would oppose the proposn. The g out narrative beme a re of passage, somethg to be shared wh others, and the centerpiece of gay liberatn movements.

As ttimony of this shift, today, marriage equaly is the law of the land, the popular TV edy “Morn Fay” featur a gay uple and one of the leadg ndidat for the Democratic printial ticket, Pete Buttigieg, is a gay man.

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

By g the term “g out, ” she impli that beg fat is like beg gay – and that, jt as homophobia is morally wrong, so too is “fatphobia.

Karl Herich Ulrichs is nsired by many as the first gay activist morn tim, and the first person to publicly “e out”. Throughout his life, Ulrichs fought tirelsly for the rights of gay people – even before the term ‘homosexual’ was ed.

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

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. Afterwards, he worked the civil service of Hanover until 1854, when he stepped down before he uld be dismissed over his homosexual activy.

WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG BE 1ST GAY MAN ON A BRISH BANK NOTE

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. In his says, Ulrichs lled gay men ‘Urng’ – a term spired by a sectn Plato’s philosophil text Symposium – and lbians as ‘Dng’. Ulrichs’ fns were ground-breakg for the time – wasn’t until 1869 that Atrian wrer Karl-Maria Kertbeny ed the term “homosexual.

Ackerley, also gay, puts Daley on the rad and troduc him to his lerary iends cludg Room Wh A View thor EM Forster. 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.

Millns listen at Sunday lunchtim to the highly gay stereotyped characters played by Hugh Paddick and Kenh Williams. 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.

HOW CONGRSMAN GERRY STUDDS MA HISTORY BY COMG OUT AS GAY

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)’. However, after 10 long years of mpaigng to implement the Wolfenn Report, the new act is barely a victory for gay rights.

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. Humphri (John Inman), Bombardier ‘Gloria’ Bemont (Melvyn Hay) and edian-host Larry Grayson reprent only one type of gay man.

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. Intifyg as gay, Robson is unique chart mic at the time, when rerd pani expect artist to be the closet for fear of affectg sal. ‘Glad to be Gay’ is banned by Rad 1’s Top 40 show, and not performed on Top of the Pops, but John Peel ntu to play .

BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.

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. 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’.

THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO PLAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act (1988, now repealed) stat that a lol thory ‘shall not tentnally promote homosexualy... He tells his fay before the rerd programme was broadst and go on to found LGBT+ rights chary 1990s: It’s not Daytime, ’s Gaytime! Prenters Kristian Digby, Jonathon Natynczyk, Tom Ashton, Robert Robertson and Stt Cappuro, That Gay Show, 2001, BBC Choice.

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. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.