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30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years. * famous historical figures who were gay *
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11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
* famous historical figures who were gay *
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FAMO GAY PEOPLE
Johnson was an Ain Amerin transgenr-rights activist, whose work the 1960s and 1970s had a huge impact on the LGBT this time, beg gay was classified as a mental illns the Uned Stat. Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police, and were shunned by many June 1969, when Marsha was 23 years old, police raid a gay bar New York lled The Stonewall Inn.
Allan HorsfallThe days he's often lled the grandfather of the gay rights movement, for openly mpaigng as a gay man when homosexualy was still illegal.