Read CNN’s Fast Facts on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng ton the Uned Stat, and learn more about their stggle for equal rights.
Contents:
- GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- FAMO GAYS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
- THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years. * gay throughout history *
Ancient Tim: Cultur such as the Indian, Che, Egyptian, Greek and Roman acmodate homosexualy and crossdrsg among a mory of s cizens sce the earlit rerd tim. One of the earlit Egyptian pharaohs associated wh homosexualy is Kg Neferkare, who is scribed havg an affair wh his top ary manr, Sase, durg the Sixth Dynasty.
Eighth-century Greek epics like the Iliad and Odyssey portray homosexual unns between gods and young men such as Zs and Ganyme, Poseidon and Pelops, Apollo and Hyacth, etc. India’s Manmri (Manu Samha) lists homosexual behavr as a mor offense for ordary, twice-born mal and for unrage, unmarried girls but do not nmn otherwise.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
* gay throughout history *
The Dark Ag: Wh the advent of Christiany, homosexualy and crossdrsg are crimalized the Roman Empire but rema wily accepted throughout the rt of the world. The Middle Eastern ctom of stratg homosexual slav and hoe servants be monplace the East Roman Empire (Byzantium) and is troduced to northern Cha and India. Seventy-five homosexuals are sentenced to ath and garroted the Cy Hall cellars of Holland durg a harsh mpaign to extermate that untry of sodomy “om top to bottom.
FAMO GAYS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
London’s most popular playwright, Osr Wil, is nvicted of “gross cency” (homosexual acts not amountg to buggery) and sentenced to two years of hard labor a highly-publicized trial. In June, homosexual rts break out on Christopher Street at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy as a rponse to route police harassment, markg the begng of the morn gay rights movement.
THE OLST GAYS HISTORY
A prehensive study of female-female seagull pairg on Santa Barbara Island (California) creat a sensatn as the first publicized observatn of homosexualy the animal kgdom.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn remov homosexualy om s list of mental and emotnal disorrs, followed two years later by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn. Chris Vogel and Rich North, a gay uple om Wnipeg, Canada, shock the world by beg the first homosexual uple to publicly marry a church and file a legal challenge to the untry’s ban on same-sex marriage.