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• POLICIAN MAK HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CANDIDATE MYANMAR
• CT NATIVE BREAKS BARRIER AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY NFL ACH
• GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA
• PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
• DANA NSEL, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIAN ELECTED TO MICHIGAN STATE OFFICE, DRAWS SPIRATN OM JUDAISM
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN AMERI WAS NOT HARVEY MILK
• HARVEY MILK WAS NOT THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIAN
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY BET SECRETARY NFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE
• WISNS’S TAMMY BALDW IS FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO SENATE
• ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT

POLICIAN MAK HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CANDIDATE MYANMAR

Johnson’s mpaign announcement vio, released last month, highlighted the 57-year-old’s experience as an attorney, an openly gay Texan and a state lawmaker who unseated former Republin state Rep. Durg her first year office 2019, Johnson joed four other openly gay women the Texas Hoe to form the state’s first LGBTQ uc, now one of the natn’s largt.

There are jt 12 out LGBTQ people are servg the current Congrs — 10 the Hoe and two the Senate — spe more than 7 percent of the natn’s adult populatn intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or “somethg other than heterosexual, ” acrdg to a Febary Gallup poll. Natnwi, the number of openly gay women elected to public office has stalled, up only 0. A gay man will n for public office Myanmar November, markg a first the Southeast Asian untry’s history.

CT NATIVE BREAKS BARRIER AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY NFL ACH

SOUTHBURY, CT (WFSB) – A Connecticut native has bee the first openly gay NFL Maxen, a ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, said he didn’t want to feel like he had to lie Maxen, associate strength ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, has publicly e out as gay.

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. Great player, sred an amazg goal, the first £1m black player, me out as gay, " he said.

There was a lot of homophobia the prs and media and he was hound for the fact that he me out as beg gay. No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual that ma him angry — at himself. Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017.

Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports. 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.

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

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. 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. 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. McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals.

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

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly.

It was bil and ugly, filled wh “every gay slur you uld thk of, ” Bach said. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport.

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

McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay. ”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry. As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok.

’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac.

“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.

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

Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done. The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.

“Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely.

DANA NSEL, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIAN ELECTED TO MICHIGAN STATE OFFICE, DRAWS SPIRATN OM JUDAISM

Harvey Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, was the first openly gay elected official California. In this month's midterm electns, Colorado elected the natn's first openly gay ernor. The victori e 40 years after the assassatn of the first openly gay elected official California — Harvey Milk.

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

In 1978, unr his urgg, the cy uncil passed a gay rights ordance that protected gay people om beg fired om their jobs.

HARVEY MILK WAS NOT THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIAN

In California at that time, a nservative state senator named John Briggs was phg a statewi ballot measure, Proposn 6, to ban gay and lbian teachers. San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk, left, who was openly gay, talks wh Gwenn Craig and Bill Krs, -ordators of the San Francis No on Prop 6 program San Francis on Nov.

Today, the seat Milk held when he was killed is occupied by another openly gay man, Rafael Manlman. But he worri that as queer people are priced out of gay neighborhoods like the Castro, dilut their polil power. "I do thk that he sort of started this path that ma possible for the openly gay officials that were elected this last round, " says Craig.

Former 2020 printial ndidate and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has ma history as the first openly gay Cabet member U.

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY BET SECRETARY NFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE

"I n remember watchg the news -- 17-years-old Indiana, seeg a story about an appotee of Print Clton named to be an ambassador attacked and nied a vote the Senate bee he was gay -- ultimately able to serve only by a recs appotment, " he said.

Eric Fanng served as Secretary of the Army durg the Obama Admistratn, the first openly gay dividual to hold an armed service's top civilian posn.

In the Tmp admistratn, Richard Grenell served as actg director of Natnal Intelligence, the first openly gay dividual to serve a Cabet-level posn an actg pacy, but his posn was not 's Cabet also clus the first female treasury secretary, first female director of Natnal Intelligence and first Black fense secretary. Forty-six years ago, on April 2, 1974, out lbian Kathy Kozachenko was elected to the Ann Arbor Cy Council Michigan — beg the first openly gay person elected to polil office the Uned Stat.

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

The acla of “first elected openly gay official” is often misattributed to Harvey Milk, the boistero gay in who was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.

“Harvey Milk was a very strong and vibrant gay activist, ” Kozachenko said, addg that Milk, who was assassated a year after his electn, was a hero and a martyr. “I am so proud of all the activists that me after me … The people that phed and phed and phed for gay marriage, the transgenr people that have phed for their rights...

ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT

”The Michigan-based, left-wg Human Rights Party, an early champn for racial jtice and gay rights, reced Kozachenko to n for cy uncil. ”Unlike most Amerin towns at the time, Ann Arbor was a liberal enclave, Kozachenko relled— not many people seemed to re if you were gay. By that time, the Human Rights Party had already been succsful electg two members to the cy uncil: Jerry DeGrieck, a gay man, and Nancy Wechsler, a lbian, who were both graduat of the Universy of Michigan.

’”In fact, the party had so much succs champng for gay rights Ann Arbor that Kozachenko didn’t feel the need to make central to her agenda. That someone has n openly as a gay person and been elected to public office, ” Kozachenko said durg her 1974 victory speech, which was unearthed by Bloomberg. “Gay liberatn was not a major issue the mpaign — both ndidat this ward said they supported gay rights, but 10 years ago, or even three years ago, lbianism would have meant tomatic feat.

Many people’s attus about gayns are still far om healthy, but my mpaign forced some people at least to re-exame their prejudic and stereotyp. ”After graduatn, Kozachenko moved to New York Cy, where she joed a group of lbian and gay socialists, and also volunteered for a group lled Dyk and Tyk. “It was an anizatn that was helpg women who had e out after havg been married and had children, and their hbands were tryg to take their kids away om them for beg gay, ” she, a group of gay activists ved her to Ptsburgh, where she spoke at a rally agast anti-LGBTQ activists, cludg sger Ana Bryant.