Mra Healey is first woman and first out gay person elected Massachetts ernor | US midterm electns 2022 | The Guardian

Contents:

• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
• MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.

Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. "Navratilova, a trailblazer for gay rights, tweeted a one-word rponse: "Yik...

-- 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 suatns.It'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."I don't want to feel like I have to thk about anymore," Maxen said the piece published Thursday afternoon. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game 2021.The Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Katie Sowers, offensive assistant for the San Francis 49ers, beme the first woman and the first openly gay person to ach at the Super Bowl 2020. No list of groundbreakg athlet would be plete whout Billie Jean Kg, one of the greatt women's tennis players of all time and a dited activist for gay rights and genr equaly. The openly gay Democrat served three terms the Wisns State Assembly before beg elected to the U.

Dani Roem is the first openly transgenr person to be elected to the Virgia General Assembly, challengg and featg 13-term cumbent and self-scribed "chief homophobe" Bob Marshall the 2017 special electn. She is the first Black woman, the first openly gay person, and only the send woman to be elected mayor of the cy, makg Chigo the largt U.

She was the first Lata and the first openly gay person nomated for ernor by a major party Texas, but ultimately lost to Republin Governor Greg Abbott. She rose to fame as a Black lbian cross-drsg performer the 1920s, startg her reer one of New York's most notor gay speakeasi. She was married to Robert Nemiroff but had affairs wh women, and ntributed to early queer publitns cludg the lbian-oriented The Ladr and the gay magaze One.

MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR

She married her wife Portia De Rossi 2008, providg an important example of a mastream gay marriage at the height of the Proposn 8 bate. She found AIDS Network LA 1971, APLA 1983, and Gay & Lbian Elr Hog 1993, among many other achievements.

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Massachetts’ Democratic attorney general, Mra Healey, has been elected ernor, makg history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay ndidate elected to the feated the Republin Geoff Diehl, a former state reprentative who had the endorsement of Donald Tmp. Healey and Ta Kotek, a Democratic ndidate for ernor Oregon, each began the day wh a chance to bee the first out gay woman elected ernor of a the mpaign, Healey pledged to expand job trag programs, make childre more affordable and mornize schools.

MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR

" Johnson and Rivera were proment figur uprisgs agast 1969 police raids at the gay bar Stonewall Inn.

Activist Sylvia Rivera may be bt known for her participatn the 1969 uprisgs around the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy.

After the uprisgs, LGBTQ+ muny members found the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). Though she married her clost iend, Robert Nemiroff, she secretly affirmed her homosexualy her letters and unpublished short stori.