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Contents:

• GAY UPLE WS SE AGAST FLORIST AFTER SUPREME COURT REJECTS APPEAL
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• BEVERLY GAY BRONSTON OBUARY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• THE KILLERS’ BRANDON FLOWERS EXPLAS HOW ‘GAY TEEN NTEMPLATG SUICI’ SPIRED NEW SONG
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• GROWG GUI: HOW TO GROW AND CARE FOR GAYFEATHER
• GIFTG YOUR GAY LOVER FLOWERS: THE DO’S, DON’TS, & MT DO
• HOW TO GROW GAYFEATHER FLOWER PLANTS
• GAYFEATHER (LIATRIS SPITA): CARE, GROWG GUI AND TYP (WH PICTUR)

GAY UPLE WS SE AGAST FLORIST AFTER SUPREME COURT REJECTS APPEAL

The Senate passed a bill to protect gay marriage as well as terracial marriage. Pri month has s roots the memoratn of the Stonewall rts June of 1969 after police raid a New York Cy gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. Eight years later, a rabow flag created by artist Gilbert Baker ma s but at the San Francis event to symbolize Gay Pri and beme an inic symbol.

Later the 1920s, drag queens like Jean Mal helped popularize gay-iendly bars major ci, a trend that historian Gee Chncey lled “the Pansy Craze.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Whereas the late 19th century rtricted gay male activy to the seedy red-light district unr the elevated tra of the Bowery, wh an even ls visible lbian life largely rtricted to private salons for upper-class women, prohibn allowed the first emergence of a visible gay and lbian life. But the rise of Nazism and Hollywood homophobia, due to the Hays Commissn, drove the clubs back unrground. As historian Naoko Shibawa wrote The Lavenr Sre and Empire: Rethkg Cold War Antigay Polics, Betty Friedan labeled their volvement “the Lavenr Menace.

Rumour has that some gay men Victorian England wore green rnatns to intify each other. The Bety and Colour of the Pansy The word “pansy” was first associated wh gay men the early ’s ntued to be a faiar term to this day. ”Collaborators the project plant sgle pansi at s where transphobic or homophobic discrimatn has happened.

” She said that her aim was to honour, “the betiful trans, gay, queer and non-bary muny. Lavenr at the Centre of Gay and Lbian Communi The flower lavenr, and s lour, are tritely lked wh both gay men and lbian women. Gay men were referred to as “Lavenr boys” the 1920s as they were seen to be “not mascule enough.

BEVERLY GAY BRONSTON OBUARY

A the time, Douglas was a torrid love affair wh the famoly gay thor Osr Wil, and his poem lyrilly scrib homosexualy as "the love that dare not speak s name.

The word lavenr was ed as slang referrg to gay men sce the 1920s, but has some troubled 20th-century history.

As Prologue Magaze explas, this was a reactn to creasg awarens of homosexualy, leadg to thoands of gay workers beg forced out of feral jobs. Gay people were characterized as risks and associated wh munists by Senator Joseph McCarthy (y, that McCarthy). It feels like a ftg tribute that now, sce gay marriage has bee legal and accepted, lavenr ros are often ed to adorn same-sex weddgs.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Red ros are wily known as a symbol of romance, but they n also refer to romance between gay men. As CBR explas, Japan is home to a whole manga genre, wrten by and for gay and bi men, lled Bara (薔薇, lerally meang "rose"). The lk between gay men and ros Japan dat back to the 1960s, acrdg to the book "Homosexualy and Manls Postwar Japan, " and was started by a llectn of homoerotic photography lled Bara Kei, loosely translated as "Oral of the Ros.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

" This associatn led to the creatn of a magaze for gay men, lled Barazoku (via John Coulthart).

THE KILLERS’ BRANDON FLOWERS EXPLAS HOW ‘GAY TEEN NTEMPLATG SUICI’ SPIRED NEW SONG

Seemgly, the artistic efforts were ma to reclaim the word rose, which was origally ed as a pejorative for gay men Japan. Knowg all of this, be a lot more noticeable that male characters anime who're implied to be gay are sometim shown holdg a rose. Known English as Jsie and Jam, they rry a lot of queer subtext wh them and, as Gay Star News pots out, Jam is heavily implied to be gay.

In the late 19th century, green rnatns beme a wily unrstood symbol for gay men, popularised by none other than Osr Wil. As Columbia Journalism Review not, the word queer was first ed to mean homosexual 1894 which, whether or not by cince, was shortly after "Lady Wrmere's Fan" was first published.

Acrdg to Anime Femist, the word yuri was origally popularised the 1970s by the gay men's magaze Barazoku, g the word yurizoku 百合族 (lily tribe) for a sectn where they published letters om women rears. Acrdg to the New Gay Tim, Page was the creator of the now well-known bi pri flag, wh s magenta, lavenr, and blue lors.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

As JSTOR Daily explas, they beme associated wh gay men the early 1900s, particularly those who were flamboyantly drsed.

The public performanc New York's Tim Square, Greenwich Village, and Harlem beme known around the world, helpg to ph awarens of gay culture to the mastream by the 1930s.

"The adjuditory bodi that nsired this se did not act wh relig anim when they led that the florist and her rporatn vlated the Washgton Law Agast Discrimatn by clg to sell weddg flowers to a gay uple, and they did not act wh relig anim when they led that such discrimatn is not privileged or exced by the Uned Stat Constutn or the Washgton Constutn, " the urt wrote. No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual that ma him angry — at himself.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017. Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports.

Wh heavy hearts, we announce the ath of Beverly Gay Bronston (Sprgfield, Oh), who passed away on July 11, 2023 at the age of 89. Leave a sympathy msage to the fay on the memorial page of Beverly Gay Bronston to pay them a last was preceased by: her parents, John B.

Crawford and Jse Crawford (Bohanan); her hband Robert; and her sisters, Iris Wbeck and Gayle is survived by: her dghters, Rhonda Ril, Jr. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

GROWG GUI: HOW TO GROW AND CARE FOR GAYFEATHER

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

GIFTG YOUR GAY LOVER FLOWERS: THE DO’S, DON’TS, & MT DO

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

HOW TO GROW GAYFEATHER FLOWER PLANTS

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

GAYFEATHER (LIATRIS SPITA): CARE, GROWG GUI AND TYP (WH PICTUR)

Acrdg to Michael Stto of HoopsHype, the Lakers are among several teams who uld potentially have tert Rudy Gay. Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype.

Perhaps this is a role and avenue that Gay n also provi value like he did for a young Jazz team. While his on-urt productn certaly isn't where ed to be at this stage of his reer, Gay still do posss the reque size and strength to pete.