The First Openly Gay Person to W an Electn Ameri Was Not Harvey Milk - Bloomberg

Contents:

• WHO WAS KARL HERICH ULRICHS? MEET THE FIRST MAN TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA
• TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• WHO WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL THE UNED STAT?
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN AMERI WAS NOT HARVEY MILK
• WISNS’S TAMMY BALDW IS FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO SENATE

WHO WAS KARL HERICH ULRICHS? MEET THE FIRST MAN TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

In fact, Ulrichs is wily creded as the pneer of the morn gay rights movement, and is famo for makg his own words up to scribe gay men, lbians, bisexuals and tersex people.

Afterwards, he worked the civil service of Hanover until 1854, when he stepped down before he uld be dismissed over his homosexual activy. Between 1863 and 1865, Ulrichs wrote a seri of five says published as Forschungen über das Rätsel r mannmännlichen Liebe (Studi on the Riddle of Male-Male Love), which he provid his own terms for gay men, lbians, bisexuals and tersex people.

HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA

Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official the history of California, tak his place on the San Francis Board of Supervisors on January 8, 1978. The first and, for years, most visible openly gay polician Ameri, Milk was a longtime activist and pneerg lear of San Francis’s LGBT servg the Navy durg the Korean War, Milk held several whe-llar jobs New York Cy. Inially nservative and reluctant to advote for gay rights, Milk’s views changed around the time he and his then-partner opened a mera shop on Castro Street, the heart of the San Francis’s LGBT muny, many bs owners and cizens of the largely-gay Castro District, Milk was harassed by police and lol officials.

Dpe alienatg many Democrats, cludg other gay activists, wh his bombastic language and flower-child persona, he won the Castro district handily and me 10 out of 32 ndidat.

TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN

Still, Milk and the Castro’s rise to power cid wh the rise of anti-gay reactnari like Ana Bryant, and Milk unrstood both the power and the danger of his posn as facto lear of the largt gay muny Ameri. On the nth anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, shortly after his partner mted suici and the face of nservative backlash across the untry, Milk addrsed San Francis’s gay pri para, begng wh his tchphrase “My name is Harvey Milk and I’m here to rec you” and endg wh a msage of “Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to e to if the prsur at home are too great. ”The followg November, 75 percent of California voters rejected a referendum that would have allowed schools to fire teachers for beg homosexual.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

On the 50th anniversary of Stonewall 2019, Milk was an gural ductee onto the Natnal LGBTQ Wall of MORE: The Gay Rights MovementAlso on This Day History January | 8. " Beyond her LGBTQ activism, DeLarverie also anized and performed at fundraisers for women who suffered om domtic vlence and their Jam Baldw (Photo by Ted Thai)The LIFE Picture Collectn/GettyJam Baldw (1924-1987)A wrer and social cric, Baldw is perhaps bt known for his 1955 llectn of says, "Not of a Native Son, " and his groundbreakg 1956 novel, "Gvanni's Room, " which picts them of homosexualy and bisexualy.

PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE

Baldw spent a majory of his lerary and activist reer tg others about Black and queer inty, as he did durg his famo lecture tled “Race, Racism, and the Gay Communy” at a meetg of the New York chapter of Black and Whe Men Together (now known as Men of All Colors Together) and playwright Lorrae Hansberry her New York Cy apartment April Attie / Getty ImagLorrae Hansberry (1930-1965)Hansberry was an activist and playwright bt known for her groundbreakg play “A Rais the Sun, ” about a stgglg Black fay on Chigo’s South Si. The inic work was then ma to a 1961 film starrg Sidney Poier and Ruby to “A Rais the Sun” fame, Hansberry — who never publicly acknowledged she was a lbian — joed lbian rights group Dghters of Bilis and ntributed letters about femism and homophobia to s magaze, “The Ladr, ” acrdg to LGBTQ historian Eric Marc, host of the “Makg Gay History” podst.

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

Now 79, Miss Major, known to many simply as “Mama, ” ris Ltle Rock, Arkansas, where she ntu to be a vol Sprg's mayor Ron On, April 18, Khan / LA Tim via Getty ImagRon On (Born 1950)When On was elected mayor of Palm Sprgs, California 2003, he ma history by beg the first openly gay Ain Amerin man elected mayor of an Amerin cy. The rts—which took place after a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy—served as a talyst for the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and across the globe. To honor that, we've round up some of the most historic firsts om the LGBTQ muny, om the first pro-gay film to the first state to repeal sodomy laws.

Der Eigene (The Own), which was published om 1896 to 1932 by Adolf Brand om Berl, Germany, is nsired the first gay journal the world, acrdg to Out magaze.

WHO WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL THE UNED STAT?

Throughout the perdil's nearly 40 years of publitn, vered topics like homosexualy and bisexualy a number of lerary and artistic ways, cludg poetry, prose, polil manifto, and nu photography. One of the mtee's first iativ was a petn to repeal Paragraph 175, an anti-gay piece of legislatn Germany's Imperial Penal Co, which crimalized sexual acts between men. And then, of urse, there were the sodomy laws that had been place each state for s, which ma engagg homosexual acts a crimal offense.

In 1961, Illois beme the first state to repeal those sodomy laws and crimalize homosexual ntact between nsentg adults, acrdg to the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn.

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

Five months after the rts, activists Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Ellen Brody, and Lda Rhos ma a proposn at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns that there be an annual march New York Cy to memorate the event on the last Saturday of every June, acrdg to Back then, was lled the Christopher Street Liberatn Day, although the march was a precursor to what would later bee the NYC Pri March that still tak place today.

Multiple LGBT rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance, me together to form this march—and The New York Tim reported that participants took up nearly 15 cy blocks at the ial march.

WISNS’S TAMMY BALDW IS FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO SENATE

He noted that he'd "robbed banks and kidnapped children and murred people" past rol and that he uldn't unrstand why people thought that "choosg to play a gay guy" was "nsired a reer enr.

After participatg New York Cy's Christopher Street Liberatn Day 1972, Jeanne Manford (who's seen holdg the "parents" sign the photo above), the mother of Morty Manford, a gay man, created PFLAG 1973.

Acrdg to the PFLAG webse, she cid to start the support group bee of her experience at the march, where "many gay and lbian people ran up to [her] … and begged her to talk to their parents [for them]. Its creatn spired siar groups offerg "'safe havens' and mutual support for parents wh gay and lbian children" across the untry, acrdg to s webse.