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RSIAN POLICE EE GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRTED MOSW

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Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell was released by Rsian police on Thursday after beg taed near Mosw’s Red Square for prottg agast the untry’s reported abe of LGBTQ people.

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Tatchell stood outsi the Kreml on Thursday holdg a banner cril of Rsian Print Vladimir Put, sayg, "Put fails to act agast Chechnya torture of gay people. Rsian police ta gay rights activist Peter Tatchell near Red Square Mosw on Thursday. Alexanr Zemlianichenko / APDozens of gay men have said they were tortured secret prison facili the Rsian regn of Chechnya.

Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov has nied the accatns and has claimed there are no gays Tatchell's one-man prott, he was approached by several police officers who told him his actns were not thorized. “As long as gay people don’t have their rights all across Ameri, there’s no reason for celebratn, ” she once said. Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River.

She was once arrted for attemptg to climb through a wdow ( a drs and heels) to a room where the New York Cy Council was batg a gay rights bill, NBC reported. “Sylvia’s role gay history was that she was one of the first people to highlight that our movement need to be more clive of people who did not f the mastream, ” Carrie Davis, Chief Programs and Policy Officer at New York Cy’s LGBT Communy Center, told NBC News.

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9, AP PhotoHarvey Milk, the subject of the Osr-wng film Milk, was the first openly gay polician to be elected California. Alice NkomEmbed om Getty ImagAlice Nkom is a human rights lawyer and LGBTQ activist om Cameroon, where homosexualy is still crimalized.

In a untry where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ muny through text msag and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ Nkom intifi as heterosexual, she has dited her work to fightg for Cameroon’s LGBTQ muny and found the Associatn for the Defence of Homosexualy 2003. Arsham ParsiArsham Parsi is a gay man who first began secretly workg to support members of the LGBTQ muny his native Iran. But 2005, the queer activist was forced to flee his untry, where homosexual activy remas, Parsi liv exile Canada, where he has found the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refuge, which supports and provis guidance to LGBTQ asylum seekers om the Middle East.

3, LM Otero/APMichael Sam beme the first openly gay football player to be drafted by an NFL team 2014. About a year after he was first drafted, Sam retired om the NFL cg mental health stggle highlighted the discrimatn and homophobia still rampant the sports world, but Sam has gone on to share his story and ntu to champn change. Jonathan Van Ns, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk, and Karamo Brown om Queer Courty of NetflixThe all-star st of Netflix’s new Queer Eye seri — a reboot of Bravo’s early 2000s seri Queer Eye for the Straight Guy — may be all fun when to makeovers, but they’re ser about makg a difference the “Fab Five” — Tan France, Jonathan Van Ns, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, and Antoni Porowski — speak openly on Queer Eye about their personal stggl and experienc wh homophobia and discrimatn.

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When he me out as gay the late 1960s, homosexualy was still illegal. He later tried to set up an LGBT+ rights anisatn Melbourne, but he found that all of his gay iends were “too ightened” to get volved. Peter Tatchell at an event wh Gay Liberatn Front the 1970s.