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Contents:
- HOW 2013 BEME THE GREATT YEAR IN GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
- A LANDMARK DAY FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
HOW 2013 BEME THE GREATT YEAR IN GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
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Today is the 25th anniversary of Natnal Comg Out Day, a day of regnn for those who've publicly disclosed beg gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr. Flash forward four years to Mississippi: I was 16, still gay (of urse) and somewhat fearful of what the reactn would be this time, but was a secret I uld not longer keep quiet.
A LANDMARK DAY FOR GAY MARRIAGE
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I was about 17 (havg known I was gay sce around 11) and the secret was eatg me up si – I need to tell someone but was too terrified to even say myself.
A iend's ltle sister asked me out a pub full of people I knew, so I polely cled, cg the fact that I was gay, and makg sure everyone heard. [But] om the mute I said the words "I'm gay" she has been nothg but supportive, lovg and genero, so other words, nothg changed at all.
" This has been "the gayt year gay history, " the words of Fred Saz, vice print of the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, and not only bee dividual stat and the U. There have been substantive chang policy and personnel, wh Print Obama sentially doublg the number of openly gay dividuals who have served as feral judg and ambassadors.
THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
An amazg assortment of imag me om our rears as part of "A Day Gay Ameri." From silly and creative, to meangful and heartfelt, this is what you were dog on November 9, 2012. * day gay 2013 *
This year has also seen symbolic ton, cludg Obama enshrg the e of gays the civil rights pantheon his send gural addrs, and the first profsnal athlet major sports g out.
Gays and lbians had once plaed about feelg visible, but as lns of dividuals have e out, they not only have ma their polil sir more tangible but also have won sympathetic alli among many straights.
Durg his first term, Obama sometim me across as a reluctant warrr on gay issu, takg his time to "evolve" his posn on marriage, his timg perhaps prodd by remarks om Vice Print Joe Bin. Obama had already been the rare natnal polician to e the word "we" when speakg of the gay rights e before announcg his support for same-sex marriage last year. In his gural addrs January, he referred the same breath to Stonewall, Selma and Sene Falls (rpectively, landmarks the stggl for rights for gays, Ain-Amerins and women).
JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
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Obama has been the "gays' LBJ, " says Jonathan Rch, a rint scholar at the Brookgs Instutn, parg the current print to Lyndon Johnson, who signed to law the Civil Rights and Votg Rights Acts of the 1960s. This year's Supreme Court cisns on gay marriage might well have turned out differently if the ernment still had an active tert argug for discrimatn, says Aaron Belk, director of the Palm Center at San Francis State Universy, which studi transgenr ary service.
"They realized the ary is so wily revered Amerin society that if they uld draw the le the sand there, they uld prevent gays om lockg rights other parts of society.
"Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law, " he said, "for if we are tly created equal, then surely the love we m to one another mt be equal as well. Marriage helped gays "change the subject om beg primarily about rights and nondiscrimatn to beg about love, fay and muny, " says Rch, who has wrten books about same-sex marriage and growg up gay. But the fact that support for gays and gay marriage has been risg — particularly among young people — may leave opposn to their movement ls heated, activists say.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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Now, wh the urt’s historic cisn, I believe that many more stat will follow su and pass legislatn makg legal for gays and lbians to this is a tremendo victory for gay rights, is all the more cur that the same urt did not apply 21st-century logic to the rights of Ain-Amerins, Latos and other mori wh rpect to their right to the cisn that brought DOMA down, Jtice Anthony M. J., June 26, 2013To the Edor:Barack Obama, his send Ingural Addrs, brought together votg rights, gay rights and the legacy of Lyndon B. Obama said that “the most evint of tths — that all of are created equal — is the star that guis still, jt as guid our forebears through Sene Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall, ” he embraced the rhetoric of the gay rights movement as no other print years earlier, L.
”On Tuday, the Supreme Court extracted the teeth om the Votg Rights Act, and on Wednday, proclaimed that gay Amerins are equal to their fellow cizens the ey of the law.
And a clear victory for the left, the urt overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, signalg the openg of a new era for gay the tth is that the urt did not hand down the cisns; Jtice Anthony M.
Gay Days at Disney World is the world's most popular gay and lbian celebratn, attractg over 150,000 gay and lbian travelers to Orlando Florida. It started out as a sgle day the Magic Kgdom has grown to one of the largt gay and lbian events to clu a bs expo, parti, theme park and attractn events and much more. Gay Days tak place the first weekend June Orlando Florida. Gay Days will feature The Gay Days Expo, ncerts, edy events and parti. Schled days for Gay Day at the Parks are also a part of this huge Lbian and Gay celebratn. * day gay 2013 *
Day of Silence, held on April 17, is the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network’s annual day to prott the bullyg of LGBT stunts and their supporters. Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, observed on May 17 to raise awarens of anti-LGBT vlence and reprsn worldwi.
Created by Adam Steward 2009 and celebrated on July 16, Internatnal Drag Day to give drag artists a chance to showse their creativy and ntributns to gay culture. Started 2010 by Canadian teenager Brtany McMillan, and promoted by GLAAD, was created rponse to a seri of bullyg-related suicis of gay stunts like Tyler Clementi. Liz was the first person I worked wh that I told I was gay, and I appreciated how was a nonissue to her and had no effect on our great iendship.
At the End of the Day: Directed by Kev O'Brien. Wh Stephen Shane Mart, Danielle Sagona, Tom Nowicki, Chris Cavalier. A nservative profsor at a Christian llege fds himself a gay support group to stop their lnch of an LGBT homels youth shelter their small town." data-id="ma * day gay 2013 *
: Our Day Gay Ameri missn: To prevent new HIV fectns, support and empower people affected and fected by HIV/AIDS, and elimate HIV/AIDS-related stigma. M., New York Cy: Mm director Hunter O'Hanian and director of operatns Rob Hugh Rosen discs the current Del LaGrace Volno exhibn at the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art. : Some of the members of New Mexi Outdoors (an outdoors club that has been servg the New Mexi gay muny for over 20 years) spend a ray, chilly eveng si for a gam night.
Mare Matthew Phelps (right) and Ben Schock celebratg the Mare Corps' 237th birthday wh their gay fay at Freddie's Beach Bar and Grill.
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This is durg my number on the last stop of the Chow Down girls' SorryBoutIt tour at Wtgay NYC celebratg Obama's w earlier that week. Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, May 17, reprents an annual landmark to draw the attentn of cisn-makers, the media, the public, opn lears, and lol thori to the suatn faced by lbian, gay, bisexuals, and transgenr, and tersex people and those who do not nform to sexual and genr norms. Spir Day, October 20, is a day lns wear purple a stand agast bullyg and to show their support for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) youth.
One day an unknown gay 'iend' propos a bld date a public place, but the boy, not havg seen his face, sists he a 'red' shirt so he n regnize him. This timele provis rmatn about the gay rights movement the Uned Stat om 1924 to the prent: cludg the Stonewall rts; the ntributns of Harvey Milk; the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy; the first civil unns; the legalizatn of same-sex marriage Massachetts, Connecticut, New York; and more. 1948 Aled Ksey publish Sexual Behavr the Human Male, revealg to the public that homosexualy is far more wispread than was monly believed.
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * day gay 2013 *
1951 The Mattache Society, the first natnal gay rights anizatn, is formed by Harry Hay, nsired by many to be the founr of the gay rights movement. Six years after Caffe Co opens, hosts the first gay plays, The Madns of Lady Bright, by Lanford Wilson, and The Hnted Host, by Robert Patrick.
1969 The Stonewall rts transform the gay rights movement om one limed to a small number of activists to a wispread prott for equal rights and acceptance.
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * day gay 2013 *
Patrons of a gay bar New York's Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn, fight back durg a police raid on June 27, sparkg three days of rts.
1976 San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne appots Harvey Milk to the Board of Perm Appeals, makg Milk the first openly gay cy missner the Uned Stat.
Only one supervisor vot agast and Mayor Mosne signs to Briggs drops out of the California ernor's race, but receiv support for Proposn 6, also known as the Briggs Iniative, a proposal to fire any teacher or school employee who publicly supports gay rights. 1980 At the 1980 Democratic Natnal Conventn held at New York Cy's Madison Square Garn, Democrats took a stance supportg gay rights, addg the followg to their plank: "All groups mt be protected om discrimatn based on race, lor, relign, natnal orig, language, age, sex or sexual orientatn.