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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.

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

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

“The ncept of gay marriage -- we didn't even nceive of the ia.

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

"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.

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

"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. 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.

THE FIRST GAY IMMIGRANT CONGRS

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.

RERD 13 CONGRS MEMBERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL

“Why don’t we n you as openly gay? We dive to some of the velopments wh the first gay immigrant elected to, to a gay immigrant, is patrtism?

”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. 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.

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

(Image via Gay Milary Signal). Congrs set a historil mark wh a rerd 13 members who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual.

Barney Frank, D-Mass., beme the first openly gay lawmaker Congrs when he me out on Memorial Day 1987. "I n accept not volunteerg that I am gay.

The only openly gay Republin Congrs is New York Rep. He is the first openly gay Republin to w a ngrsnal electn not as the cumbent. In the Hoe, eight gay men serve and three lbians.

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

Robert Garcia, the first openly gay immigrant; Rep. Eric Sorenson, Illois' first openly gay reprentative; and Rep. The rerd number of openly gay, lbian or bisexual Congrs members reprents 2% of all of Congrs.

5% of the adult populatn intifi as gay, lbian or bisexual, acrdg to a 2021 Gallup poll. Now that the legal door has been opened to anti-LGBTQ+ bigots or racists, there’s jt no tellg how far the Supreme Court’s license to discrimate will month, the urt’s nservative majory led that a webse signer Colorado would not vlate the state’s antidiscrimatn law if she refed to create weddg webs for gay you, Lorie Smh, the proprietor of 303 Creative, was not actually creatg weddg webs at that pot, but she wanted to know advance whether would be OK to turn away gay people bee she abhors same-sex marriage.

’ ” Fair for reports that Smh ma up the gay uple she claimed had ntacted her for weddg webse servic (even though she hadn’t lnched that bs yet, hmmmm), Chemersky said no longer matters whether they existed or not. ”It will e as no surprise that the Alliance Defendg Freedom also reprented the Colorado baker who won a limed Supreme Court victory 2018 after he refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple. -- 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.

HOW CONGRSMAN GERRY STUDDS MA HISTORY BY COMG OUT AS GAY

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. Garcia — who was sworn- as the first gay, immigrant member of Congrs January — is sippg a beer at The Stonewall Inn, where Pri origated followg the namake 1969 Stonewall rts. A lot has changed sce the unassumg gay bar was enshred to history, but exactly 54 years later, a new wave of opprsive laws and harmful misrmatn ntue to ntrol the nversatn around LGBTQ+ rights.

It's not jt gay people that want to get married, 's also trans people. "I want to highlight people that speak to me and to my muny, and the thgs that I like as a gay person.

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

Garcia said that growg up, he did not have any gay role mols or know of pop culture hero that uld help him better unrstand his sexualy.

Congrs has more openly gay members than ever before.

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

Thirteen members of the 118th Congrs intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, cludg Sen. Tammy Baldw, a Wisns Democrat who beme the first openly gay U.