Uganda's LGBTQ muny is ' shock' over new measure, gay activist says

Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
• INAH FEI MONSTRATED LIMED UNRSTANDG OF ANTI-GAY BILL – DAFEAMEKPOR
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others. Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Homophob are up arms sayg, “Not my Spir-Man!

”Bt known for starrg the new Spir-Man trilogy and brgg the Peter Parker character to life the Marvel Cematic Universe (MCU), Tom Holland is currently facg scty om homophob for playg the lead character of Billy Milligan the new limed seri The Crowd Room for Apple 1975, Milligan was arrted for armed robbery and rapg three people on the mp of Oh State Universy. The actor is straight and has been a relatnship wh Zendaya for many years, so his role on The Crowd Room is clearly jt a role that don’t affect his personal the topic of LGBTQ+ actors playg LGBTQ+ characters, ’s not like Billy Milligan is the most posive dividual out there for an actor to brg to life, so feels like ’s bis the pot for a non-LGBTQ+ actor to play this particular person on as seen on LGBTQ-clive shows like The Last of Us, homophob will clg to jt about any reason to pla about queer characters beg picted on mastream media. KAMPALA, Uganda — Members of Uganda’s LGBTQ muny are shock and fear beg arrted after Parliament passed a measure that would make a crime to intify as gay and impose tough sentenc that clu the ath penalty certa s, an activist said “Anti-Homosexualy Bill, 2023” was passed wh a near-unanimo majory by lawmakers  the east Ain untry, where anti-gay sentiment ns ep.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

Ronald Kabuubi / APThe legislatn will next be sent to Print Yoweri Meveni, who has repeatedly nounced homosexualy, to be signed to Mugisha, one of a few Ugandans who live openly as gay, told Rters he was sred the measure would trigger “mass arrts of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer persons and mob vlence toward LGBTQ muni. There’s gog to be a lot of trma and s of mental health that will lead to a lot of suici, ” he relatns were already illegal Uganda, but supporters of the new law say is need to punish a broar array of LGBTQ activi, which they say threaten tradnal valu the nservative and relig East Ain measure clus steep sentenc that clu ath for “aggravated homosexualy” and life prison for same-sex relatns.

Aggravated homosexualy volv same-sex relatns wh people unr age 18 or when the perpetrator is HIV-posive, among other tegori, acrdg to the legislatn. You may be homosexual, gay, or lbian if you are attracted to people of the same sex as yourself. Havg feelgs about or havg a sexual experience wh a person of the same sex do not necsarily mean you are homosexual.

Below are mon qutns and answers related to homosexualy. Can people be forced or nvced to change om gay to straight, or the other way around? I thk I might be gay.

INAH FEI MONSTRATED LIMED UNRSTANDG OF ANTI-GAY BILL – DAFEAMEKPOR

Over time, you will figure out if you are gay, straight, neher, or both. The phrase “ the closet” may be ed to refer to someone who is gay, lbian, or bisexual, but hasn’t told iends and fay members yet.

Homophobia refers to fear, prejudice, or discrimatn toward persons who are gay, lbian, or bisexual.

Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD). Parents, Fay and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG). Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay.

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

Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U. Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player. “I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio.

A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said n refe to make weddg webs for gay upl poted durg her lawsu to a requt om a man named “Stewart” and his hband-to-be. Supreme Court led uld refe to make a weddg webse for gay upl had ced a requt om a man who says he never asked to work wh her. Smh — who did not plan to start creatg weddg webs until her se was rolved — would first have to get a requt om a gay uple and refe, triggerg a possible plat agast her, the state argued.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

Intersectnaly, Heteronormativy, and Black Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Fai on JSTOR. When Print Barack Obama threw his admistratn’s support behd a challenge to Proposn 8, the gay-marriage ban enacted by California voters 2008, his Jtice Department troduced what amounted to a bizarre promise. Proposed that the Supreme Court le that stat like California, which had extend gay men’s and lbians’ “marriage le” alternativ like domtic partnership or civil unn, were vlatn of the nstutnal prohibn agast “separate but equal”—but was fe to offer no regnn at all.

The proposal was signed to ensure that no state would have to beg validatg gay or lbian fai unr the force of a urt orr. But a simultaneo lg by the urt that the Defense of Marriage Act was unnstutnal dramatilly changed gay-rights ligators’ view of what was possible.

Acrdg to the urt’s applitn of the equal-protectn clse, such a termatn would subject not only the marriage bans but a whole range of feral, state and lol laws that disadvantaged gay men and lbians (and possibly transgenred people, as well) to a higher level of judicial scty.

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

Yet Jtice Anthony Kennedy, who had prevly wrten three watershed opns that had helped to tablish the full cizenship of gay men and lbians, had nsistently cled to see the s on those terms. He knew he was wrg for history, and that passage immediately adorned merchandise—to this day Etsy remas filled wh posters and noterds featurg Kennedy’s words—and is now often read at weddg ceremoni for both straight and gay upl. To some extent, this was a reflectn of the broar succs that gay-marriage mpaigners had had the polil sphere.

While a feral urt ced Obergefell 2016 as a basis to strike down Mississippi’s ban on adoptn by gay upl, s impact has been barely felt areas beyond fay law. Ined, the years sce, gay-rights advot and ligators have been fightg many of the same issu they nonted years, even s, earlier.

Clayton County, the Supreme Court led that gay men, lbians, bisexual and transgenr people uld already not be nied work based on the law’s cln of “sex” as a basis on which employment discrimatn was prohibed.