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Contents:

• WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN AMERI WAS NOT HARVEY MILK
• THE FIRST GAY IMMIGRANT CONGRS
• RERD 13 CONGRS MEMBERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• ROBERT GARCIA, CONGRS' FIRST GAY IMMIGRANT, IS BEG THE QUEER ROLE MOL HE NEVER HAD (EXCLIVE)
• HOW CONGRSMAN GERRY STUDDS MA HISTORY BY COMG OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO

— -- Pl Kuntzler said that when he and ne other people picketed the Whe Hoe 50 years ago today, prottg the ernment's treatment of gays and lbians, he uld not image how far the gay rights movement would e five prott on April 17, 1965, is believed to the first gay rights monstratn, advot say.

I was very open and proud of beg gay.

”The group was mostly fightg for gays and lbians to keep their ernment jobs. Fifty years later, Kuntzler, who spent his life workg for gay rights, is astonished by how the untry has evolved and the stris the muny has ma. “My sign read, '15 ln homosexuals prott feral treatment.

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

Protters march the first gay rights prott outsi the Whe Hoe Washgton, April 17, NewsThe Washgton rint add: "We uld not nceive then the astonishg progrs we would eventually make as a muny.

IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN

The ia that gay people, gay men and women, uld work openly the ernment and serve the ary.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN AMERI WAS NOT HARVEY MILK

“The ncept of gay marriage -- we didn't even nceive of the ia. "For others, 's hard to image what life would be like if weren't for the pneers at the Whe Hoe picket like Kuntzler, Barbara Gtgs or Frank Kameny, who all went on to be lears the gay rights movement. "Protters march the first gay rights prott outsi the Whe Hoe Washgton, April 17, NewsFor Kuntzler there is a sense of acplishment.

He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

THE FIRST GAY IMMIGRANT CONGRS

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.

RERD 13 CONGRS MEMBERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

Joe Ziegler, a special agent wh the tax agency for 13 years, scribed himself as a "gay Democrat married to a man" and said he cid to e forward spe his personal polics bee he believ "no one should be above the law regardls of your polil affiliatn. "I equate this to the experience and feelgs I enuntered when g out [as gay], " said Ziegler. “Why don’t we n you as openly gay?

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

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ROBERT GARCIA, CONGRS' FIRST GAY IMMIGRANT, IS BEG THE QUEER ROLE MOL HE NEVER HAD (EXCLIVE)

”Garcia, who me to the Uned Stat om Pe when he was 5, is headg to Washgton as the first openly gay immigrant to serve Congrs. I was grateful to bee a cizen, and when my fay all beme ’s a lot of thgs I am: Y, I’m gay.

But the bottom le for me on LGBTQ rights and workg wh Republins is that for me to work wh someone, you have to at least value my basic you’re not willg to accept the fact that I, as a gay person, have a right to be married, have a right to adopt children, have a right to protectns the workplace, if you’re not gog to afford me that basic rpect and digny, I really don’t have a lot of tert workg wh you.

Many people say the first gay rights prott the Uned Stat was the April 17, 1965 monstratn agast the ernment's firg of gay and lbian civil servants, cludg inic activist Frank Kameny. Though that showg outsi the Whe Hoe was the most groundbreakg or memorable picket of s time, was actually preced by a prott that happened seven months earlier, on September 19, was the day Randy Wicker, Jefferson Poland, and eight other members of the Sexual Freedom League, six of them straight, gathered outsi the army's ductn center at 39 Whehall Street New York Cy to prott the armed forc's anti-gay discrimatn and plicy wch hunts.

HOW CONGRSMAN GERRY STUDDS MA HISTORY BY COMG OUT AS GAY

Their voic were for the most part ignored that day, but we all know that the end they won: the army's official discrimatn agast gay and lbian members end we're on the subject of Whehall Street ductn center, here's some bon history: the lotn beme so notor durg the Vietnam draft that found s way to Arlo Guthrie's classic "Alice's Rtrant:" "They got a buildg down New York Cy, 's lled Whehall Street/Where you walk , you get jected, spected, tected, fected/Neglected and selected. (Image via Gay Milary Signal).

Congrs set a historil mark wh a rerd 13 members who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Barney Frank, D-Mass., beme the first openly gay lawmaker Congrs when he me out on Memorial Day 1987.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

"I n accept not volunteerg that I am gay. The only openly gay Republin Congrs is New York Rep.