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href="/news/topic/lgbt"><span class="n6NlI">LGBT+</span></a> muny, promotg equaly and diversy across society. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Even today,<strong class="_1ATDh"> </strong>LGBT+ people face prejudice and discrimatn, but for many liv have been improved and saved by those trailblazers and pneers that have gone before. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Here are 10 LGBT+ who have changed the liv or their muny, untry and the world.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Barbara Gtgs</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Many of this si of the Atlantic may not know her name, but Ms Gtgs is wily regard as the mother of the LGBT+ civil rights movement, blazg a trail for future generatns durg a time when was dangero to be openly gay. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In 1958, Ms Gtgs started the New York chapter of the Dghters of Bilis (DOB), the first lbian civil rights anisatn the Uned Stat origally found San Francis.</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Kay Tob Lahen, 82, an early photographer of the gay rights movement holdg a portra of her late partner Barbara Gtgs,<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She eded the first US lbian magaze, The Ladr om 1963 to 1966, g as a rallyg cry for equaly.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Together wh Frank Kameny, another leadg Amerin gay rights activist, Ms Gtgs helped anise the first public monstratns for gay and lbian equaly. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The first monstratn ont of Inpennce Hall on July 4, 1964, attracted 40 prottors; by the time of fal prott 1969, that number had more than tripled. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms Gtgs' succsful csas for lbian equaly clud promotg gay lerature and elimatg discrimatn Ameri's librari, and mandg the classifitn of homosexualy as a mental disorr by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Christe Jensen</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Christe served the US army durg the Send World War before beg one of the first people the Uned Stat to have genr reassignment surgery. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Her story ma headl across Ameri after she transned the 1950s, her glamour bed wh her heroism a ptivatg mix. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">On December 1, 1952, she ma the ont page of the New York Daily News unr the headle “Ex-GI Be Blon Bety: Operatns Transform Bronx Youth.”</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Christe Jensen 1977.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">But she was far more than a celebry and she ed her platform to advote for the rights of transgenr people and shape a disurse, fightg hard for equaly. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms Jensen fluenced other transgenr people to change their nam on their birth certifit after she was nied a marriage licence bee her birth certifite intified her as a male.</p><hr/><ul class="xhBdb" data-ttid="list"><li class="t9HgO" data-ttid="list-em"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2021-02-16/dismissed-lgbt-veterans-n-apply-to-reclaim-nfisted-medals"><span class="n6NlI">Gay veteran says he has to go 'back to his bully' to reclaim his medals</span></a></p></li><li class="t9HgO" data-ttid="list-em"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2021-02-13/i-wanted-a-space-where-we-uld-reprent-honour-and-celebrate-black-queer-life--the-"><span class="n6NlI">'I wanted a space where we uld reprent, honour and celebrate black queer life the UK'</span></a></p></li></ul><hr/><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">The Glamour Boys</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Alan Turg was not the only member of the LBGT+ muny to play a part fluencg the ti of the 20th century. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">This group of like-md MPs were among the earlit to warn the untry and the world about the dangers of Hler's rise Germany, and faced ridicule and worse for their urage. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Labelled the Glamour Boys by then prime mister Neville Chamberla as an suatn of their sexualy, the five keys members, Robert Bernays, Ronald Cartland, Victor Cazalet, John Maamara, and Anthony Muirhead had their phon tapped, were harassed, and threatened wh selectn and exposure for refg to be silenced. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">As regular visors to Berl, the men saw first hand the persecutn of Jewish people and other mory groups cludg homosexuals. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">They refed to be silenced and were stmental Bra not bowg to Hler. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">When war me, they enlisted; four of them died actn. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Osr Wil</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Flamboyant Irish dramatist, novelist, poet and w, Wil was a glterg star of late Victorian London society, a huge h wh those who were very often the target of his satiril eye. <span class="LjyUJ"></span><span class="LjyUJ"></span>His ic masterpiec have ensured his legacy, cludg Lady Wrmere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ial Hband (1895) and The Importance of Beg Earnt (1895), were ntemporary hs, and ntue to be performed today, wh many turned to films, but his illtr reer was cut celly short. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Osr Wil was an Irish poet and playwright</figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In 1884, Wil married a wealthy Englishwoman, Constance Lloyd and the uple had two sons. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">His homosexualy was somethg of an open secret upon his circl, spe beg illegal at the time. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">But his affair wh Lord Aled Douglas was to prove his downfall after 'Bosie's' father the <span class="LjyUJ"></span>Marquis of Queensberry left a llg rd at the playwright's home addrsed to "Osr Wil: Posg Somdome" (sic).</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Wil was so censed by the note that he sued Queensberry for libel, a cisn that would his life. <span class="LjyUJ"></span><span class="LjyUJ"></span>The libel se was thrown out after the urt was prented wh evince of Wil's homosexualy. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Instead, he was arrted on charg of "gross cency" 1895. He was imprisoned for two years Readg Gaol and died poverty three years after his release at the age of 46. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Alan Turg<span class="LjyUJ"></span></strong>There are few people who n say they lerally changed the urse of history, but Mr Turg's breakg geni did jt that. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mr Turg and his fellow Bletchley Park breakers ciphered the ary 'Enigma' s ed by Germany and s alli durg the Send World War, a breakthrough that is often creded for shorteng the war by several years. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">World War Two breaker Alan Turg was given a posthumo royal pardon 2013.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->PA</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In 1945, Turg was award an OBE for his wartime work and went on to work on what would be a precursor to puters, the Turg Mache.<span class="LjyUJ"></span> <span class="LjyUJ"></span>But 1952, Mr Turg was arrted for homosexualy – then illegal Bra. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He was found guilty of ‘gross cency’ and was chemilly strated. In 1954, he was found ad om cyani poisong. An qut led that was suici.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mr Turg's ccial role crackg the enigma remaed a secret until the 1970s and his story only me to light the 1990s. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">His nvictn was overturned 2013 and he is now a regnised natnal hero and the face of the £50 note. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Marta Navratilova and Julia Lemia<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->Rters</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Marta Navratilova<span class="LjyUJ"></span></strong>Czech-born Navratilova is nsired one of the bt tennis players of all time, her immaculate grass urt game helpg her w a rerd ne Wimbledon tl. Throughout her reer she won an unprecented 59 Grand Slam tl. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">But was not jt her skills on the urt that changed the woman's game and tennis, her urage to live her life on her own terms ma her a champn away om tennis.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She was the first openly gay athlete, g out 1981 to a world where stutnal homophobia, pecially the rarefied rridors of tennis, was the norm. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms Navratilova would spend much of her reer overg prejudic and stereotyp - refg to be anythg other than her te self meant losg lns of dollars endorsement als. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She ntu to fight for equal rights and a strong supporter of many chari which directly benef the LGBT+ muny. <span class="LjyUJ"></span><span class="LjyUJ"></span><strong class="_1ATDh">Jam Baldw</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The Ain Amerin wrer was a bold, brave voice a time before the Amerin Civil Rights movement. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">One of the foremost wrers on the 20th century, his plays, novels and says, cludg Not of a Native Son, explore race and sexualy segregated and homophobic Ameri.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He beme active the civil rights stggle on his return to the US 1957 after several years Paris. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Jam Baldw at his home, June 3, 1963, New York.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Shortly after his arrival Paris, Baldw met seventeen-year-old Swiss artist Lucien Happersberger. “In Paris,” Baldw said, “I didn’t feel socially attacked, but relaxed, and that allowed me to be loved.”<span class="LjyUJ"></span> <span class="LjyUJ"></span><strong class="_1ATDh">Ellen DeGener</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The edian and actor turned chat show host was, for many middle Amerins, the first lbian they had heard of - and embraced. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms DeGener faced tense tabloid scty after she me out 1997 -   a now famo episo of the ABC s <i>Ellen - </i>that railed her reer and left her prsed. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Ellen DeGener prentg an MTV Mic Award. <span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">It wasn’t until 2003 and the begng of the Ellen DeGener Show that she ma a eback - and what a eback. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Chat show host Ellen DeGener has bee a pneer the fight for LGBT+ equal rights and visibily. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Frida Kahlo </strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mexin pater Kahlo was open about her bisexualy at time when uld have signalled the end of her reer. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She married pater Diego Rivera 1929, but their marriage was never a nventnal one, her lovers moured to clu the sger Josephe Baker and artist Geia O'Keefe. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Pater and surrealist Frida Kahlo at home 1939.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Dpe a life changg accint at the age of 18, Kahlo pated right up until the end of her life. Frequently bed bound, she had a mirror built on the ceilg orr to be able to study herself for her now inic self-portras. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The nstant pa she lived fluenced her patg, but as her work evolved she brought inography om Mexin and digeno culture. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">While her lourful life sometim eclips her talent as an artist, the symbolism, urage and creativy of her patgs ensure that her reputatn as one of the 20th century's great artists ntu. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Harvey Milk</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Milk was first openly gay elected official the history of California when he was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Even before he took public office he was a vol gay rights advote. An engagg speaker, one of his most famo speech lled for people to e out as a time when took great urage. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Harvey Milk pictured takg part a gay eedom para 1978.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">“Gay people, we will not w our rights by stayg quietly our closets... </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"We are g out to fight the li, the myths, the distortns. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"We are g out to tell the tths about gays, for I am tired of the nspiracy of silence, so I’m gog to talk about . And I want you to talk about . You mt e out.”</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He was assassated nearly a year after takg office aged 48, a fate he had always expected given the opprsn and hatred directed at gay people at the time. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He rerd several versns of his will, “to be read the event of my assassatn.” </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">One of his tap ntaed the statement: “If a bullet should enter my bra, let that bullet stroy every closet door.” </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">His life was the subject of the 2008 film, Milk. </p><hr/><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">ITV News is showsg the liv, legaci and stori of dividuals throughout LGBT+ History Month, read more the seri </strong><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/topic/lgbt-history-month"><span class="n6NlI"><strong class="_1ATDh">here</strong></span></a><strong class="_1ATDh">.</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"></p></div><footer data-ttid="article-footer"><div class="cQTzz C04KI" data-ttid="tag-list"><ul 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british gay pioneer

Decrimalisatn changed the way homosexualy and gay culture were portrayed on screen.

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GAY PNEERS

Alan Turg broke the German Enigma durg World War II and vised the Turg mache and the Turg tt of puter telligence. Unabashedly gay, he mted suici after beg nvicted of homosexual acts. * british gay pioneer *

He died the followg year, but his extensive activism clud fightg for the passage of New York’s gay rights bill and urgg the NAACP to acknowledge the AIDS ncept of “lbian rights” was virtually nonexistent buttoned-up 1950s Ameri. But perhaps the greatt legacy she left behd is the Amerin Library Associatn’s biblgraphy of lerature about gays and lbians, one of the first llectns of s sprg 1980, Aaron Fricke looked forward to attendg prom wh the rt of his classmat at Cumberland High Rho Island. / John Phillips/GettyImagThe Stonewall Rts of 1969, which a late-night police raid of a New York Cy gay bar evolved to a fiant prott by patrons, is largely seen as the drivg event behd the morn LGBTQ rights movement.

Gay Pneers braids archival footage om the semal monstratns; FBI vtigative fil obtaed unr the Freedom of Informatn Act; gay pneer terviews about the homophobia of that era, the protol for the monstratns and how those monstratns impacted the movement and Barbara Gtgs, Frank Kameny and Lilli Vcenz on-mera 2004 discsg same-sex marriage. McCarthyism: Named for Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisns), a perd the early 1950s when the ernment sought to expose Communists, LGBT people and other polil dissints (often intified as homosexual) om Amerin public life. A new era had begun, one which lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people uld mand to be acrd equal rights, and one which might not have happened were not for the early activists who staged the protts documented Gay Pneers.

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One of the reasons we’re able to unrstand, wh such vivid knowledge, what life was like durg WW1 is thanks to some great poetry. But did you know some of the most famo war poets were revere gay, bi and queer? * british gay pioneer *

You n also e this list of notable gay Brs to start your own people Freebase / Public domaFreddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a Brish sger, songwrer, rerd producer, and lead volist of the rock band Queen. He also laid the groundwork for morn putg and theorized about artificial openly gay man durg a time when homosexual acts were illegal Bra, Turg mted suici after beg nvicted of "gross cency" and sentenced to a procre some ll "chemil stratn.

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Love and War is out now on Ast, and all the plac podsts FROM FORBESWhy This Charmg Gay Fairytale Has Been Lost For 200 YearsBy Jamie WarehamMORE FROM FORBESHow To Be An Asexual Ally: Learn Why Some Asexual People Have Sex (And Accept That Most Don't)By Jamie Wareham. Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc.

It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. "Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy. Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer".

Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology.

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U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * british gay pioneer *

Their ntributns to their rpective fields have dismantled systems of opprsn, advoted for LGBTQIA+ human rights, and allowed LGBTQIA+ people to exprs themselv more NkoliSimon Tseko Nkoli was an stmental figure the gay rights and anti-apartheid movements South Ai. Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said. “From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.

When the Brish parliament passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967 – which stated that: “a homosexual act private shall not be an offence provid that the parti nsent thereto and have attaed the age of 21 years” – sought to legimate gay inty Bra, at least partially. As Andy Medhurst explas his entertag and thoughtful search for “nebulo nanci” Brish films ma between the 1940s and 1960s, the aim of the queer spectator was to pick up on visual and verbal clu which would give away a character’s or actor’s “gayns”.

Extra-textual elements about Bogar’s own private life as a gay man lend the film and his performance addnal meang and an thenticy which flects his performanc later films such as Joseph Losey’s The Servant (1963) and Darlg (1965).

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

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Canadian-Amerin soclogist Ervg Goffman, wrg 1968 (a year after the Sexual Offenc Act was passed England and Wal), clus homosexualy as a social stigma – that is, a marker which disqualifi an dividual om full social acceptance.

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