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• NEW YORK SUBWAY STATN FEATUR GAY COUPLE IN GROUNDBREAKG MURAL
• GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
• VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
• LGBT LATO ARTISTS THREATENED AFTER SAN FRANCIS'S GAY CHOLO CHINO MURAL DEFACED

NEW YORK SUBWAY STATN FEATUR GAY COUPLE IN GROUNDBREAKG MURAL

When the cy’s long-awaed Send Avenue subway le opens New Year’s Day, muters will get a first look at a seri of life-size, mural portras adorng the new 72nd Street statn ― cludg a pictn of two married gay men holdg Vik Muniz told the Associated Prs that he opted to clu New York married uple Thor Stockman and Patrick Kellogg his “Perfect Strangers” mural project bee “they are jt people you would expect to see” ridg the cy’s Stockman, left, and hband Patrick Kellogg posed for the photograph on which "Perfect Strangers" is based three years ago Brooklyn. “Our iends were even happier that this is gay reprentatn that is not credibly betiful and skny, ” Kellogg told the AP.

GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER

A giant mural of England's first openly gay footballer has been unveiled on the si of a Fashanu remas the only male profsnal player to nfirm he was homosexual - amid fears he would be "outed" by a natnal newspaper 1990 - and was ducted to the footballg Hall of Fame spe now beg seen as an spiratn the fight agast homophobia and discrimatn sport, the proud Canary took his own life 1998 - wrg his suici note that beg gay and a personaly was "so hard" former Norwich Cy striker, who beme the UK's first black £1m player when he was sold to Nottgham Fort, ntu to be seen as a legend at the Norfolk Champnship "wonr strike" agast Liverpool at Carrow Road 1980 went on to w Match of the Day's goal of the season now his face has taken pri of place on the si of a Canari supporters pub.

A mural of former Norwich Cy player Jt Fashanu, England's first openly gay footballer, has appeared on the Fat Cat and Canary.

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VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

Fashanu grew up Norfolk and signed for Norwich the late source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Former Norwich Cy striker Jt Fashanu me out as gay 1990 while still playg profsnal football"He means a lot to a lot of people, pecially Norfolk, " said Christian Hodgkson, landlord of the Fat Cat and Canary on Thorpe Road, close to the cy centre stadium.

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They got a problem wh gay people. In tribute to one of soccer’s most popular gay trailblazers, the San Diego Loyal last week unveiled a public mural of Coll Mart Hillcrt — a neighborhood regnized as the hub of their home cy’s LGBTQ muny.

LGBT LATO ARTISTS THREATENED AFTER SAN FRANCIS'S GAY CHOLO CHINO MURAL DEFACED

As a regnn of a proment gay athlete, the mural did s job. While he’s not a Hall of Fame liber player like the others, his role as an out gay athlete pro soccer is fely worthy of that kd of public celebratn.

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