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Contents:
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- DON'T FET THE 8 LBIAN ATHLET WHO STOOD UP FOR GAY RIGHTS
- THIS GAY UPLE IS CHANGG WOMEN’S SPORTS VERAGE, ONE HILAR VIO AT A TIME
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * gay sports women *
Gay, lbian, bisexual, trans and queer soccer players who are publicly out — now at least 96 total — make over 13% of all the athlet petg the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports has found. Countri like Nigeria and Zambia imprison gay people.
Still ’s hearteng to see some women om South Ai, where homosexualy has been legal for 25 years. 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.
DON'T FET THE 8 LBIAN ATHLET WHO STOOD UP FOR GAY RIGHTS
Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib publicly me out June 2021, makg him the first openly gay man to actively play the NFL. * gay sports women *
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.
THIS GAY UPLE IS CHANGG WOMEN’S SPORTS VERAGE, ONE HILAR VIO AT A TIME
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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.
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. It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.
The Netflix documentary A Secret Love tells the remarkable story of a s-long relatnship between two gay athlet and opens up a nversatn about racism, classism and homophobia the 50s. * gay sports women *
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.
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Carl Nassib ma history 2021 by beg the first openly gay man to actively play the NFL.