This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years.
Contents:
- VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
- 15 CELEBRI YOU DIDN'T KNOW WERE GAY
- WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?
- WHO IS KEV MAXEN? MEET NFL'S FIRST GAY MALE ACH
VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
A 2017 vio of late rapper Kg Von rurfac onle wh the rapper sayg he's "gay" to get reloted jail. * people you know gay *
In the rerdg leaked earlier this week, the Chigo rapper appears to claim he’s gay to law enforcement officers an effort to secure a cell transfer while servg time jail. They got a problem wh gay people. There is no sgle gene rponsible for a person beg gay or a lbian.
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
* people you know gay *
The study of nearly a half ln people clos the door on the bate around the existence of a so-lled “gay gene. In s stead, the report fds that human DNA nnot predict who is gay or heterosexual. It is worth keepg md that this study only vers some typ of sexualy — gay, lbian and cis-straight — but don’t offer many sights to genr inty.
Humans have tried to unrstand human sexualy for centuri — and geics rearchers joed the ay the early 1990s after a seri of studi on tws suggted homosexualy ran fai. “As a teenager tryg to unrstand myself and unrstand my sexualy, I looked at the ter for “the gay gene” and obvly me across Xq28, ” said Fah Sathirapongsasuti, a study -thor and senr scientist at 23andMe, which he joked once led him to believe he hered his gayns om his mother.
“We worried a lot about volunteer bias, ” said Bailey, whose rearch clus a wily publicized study on Xq28 and gay brothers om 2018. Sanrs llaborated wh Bailey on those earlier studi and said their work had always admted that there was no sgle “gay gene. The rearchers had members of the same-sex muny review the study’s sign and language, and they adm that their termology and fns for gay, lbian and heterosexual do not reflect the full nature of the sexualy ntuum.
IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
In other words, tri to judge if a person leans gay, straight or bisexual.
“[Our study] unrsr an important role for the environment shapg human sexual behavr and perhaps most importantly there is no sgle gay gene but rather the ntributn of many small geic effects sttered across the genome, ” Neale said. " She had a way wh words and ed that talent to speak out agast racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Advertisement - Contue Readg Below2 Barbara GtgsShutterstockGtgs beme a csar for gay rights a before the Stonewall rebelln.
15 CELEBRI YOU DIDN'T KNOW WERE GAY
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. He later urged New York Cy mayor Ed Koch to work on a gay rights bill before his ath 1987.
WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?
They were the first same-sex uple married 2004 after the cy clerk was orred to provi marriage licens to gay upl. ) He was also a key player gettg the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn to no longer list homosexualy as a mental disorr.
WHO IS KEV MAXEN? MEET NFL'S FIRST GAY MALE ACH
Advertisement - Contue Readg Below12 Harry HayAlamyHay attempted to une closeted gay men L. 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. 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.