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• LOL GAY MAN LOOKS BACK AT ONTAR’S FIRST PRI MONTH EVENT
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• FLORIDA GAY MAN BTALLY ATTACKED BY TWO MEN YELLG ANTIGAY SLURS
• SF GAY MEN'S CHOS 'HELLO YELLOW BRICK ROAD' 2023: SAN FRANCIS
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

LOL GAY MAN LOOKS BACK AT ONTAR’S FIRST PRI MONTH EVENT

Christopher Plummer, 46, a gay man who grew up Ontar, said early on, around 2015, after returng to the area after livg Chigo for a , Plummer looked around and thought to himself that the muny did not have any reprentatn or social events for those who are LGBTQIA+ – an abbreviatn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng, Intersex, or Asexual. Ined, he said, there were folks the muny, some learship, who were openly gay, but there was no astcture for those the muny who intified as LGBTQIA+. The ia, he said, me om his time Chigo where some neighborhoods, there were several gay bars, but others, there were few.

He said an LGBTQIA+ group cid to anize and make certa tablishments to “gay bars” for a night. “There’s nothg gayer than bnch, ” he said.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

“It’s a proud gay tradn. The onset of the panmic, Plummer said, was followed by the false claims by former Ontar Cy Councilor Freddy Rodriguez and Riley Hill, the former mayor, agast Marty Jt, an openly gay man and then a polil rival of Hill’s when they both served on the cy uncil. Plummer said the accatns by Rodriguez, who was later relled and Hill, who lost his for reelectn last year, remd him of the homophobia of the 1980s when Oregon passed the cizen-iated Measure 8.

That removed legal protectns for gay and lbians and required the state to actively disurage homosexualy, that was a moral offense, on par wh pedophilia. “Back then, ” he said, “many people tomatilly assumed that if you were gay, you were a pedophile or a groomer.

FLORIDA GAY MAN BTALLY ATTACKED BY TWO MEN YELLG ANTIGAY SLURS

Plummer said the event was a group effort wh a host of muny partners and featured a slate of speakers, which clud himself and a lol mother of two openly gay sons, who told the story of her kids g out for the first time om a mother’s perspective. He said that pared to his first Pri Month event Boise the mid-1990s, where he had rocks and homophobic slurs hurled at him. Durg that time, he said he didn’t know other gay people existed.

Relig groups were offend by the gay liftyle and believed to be a s. Jerry Falwell, the -founr of the Moral Majory, one of the largt evangelil Christian polil lobby groups, told the Canadian Broadstg Channel 1983 that AIDS was God’s punishment for “homosexual promiscuy. Be some girl’s gay bt iend, or bee a hairdrser, ” Plummer said.

SF GAY MEN'S CHOS 'HELLO YELLOW BRICK ROAD' 2023: SAN FRANCIS

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. In his closed-door posn last month, Ziegler told lawmakers that he is gay, and phed back agast the notn om some right-wg figur that his sexual orientatn fluenc his polics or his job. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.

If you've been lookg for a way to meet other OlrGay members near you, you n now schle a meetup to get everyone together. PREVIOUS REPORT: 'I'll never get my baby back': Fay of woman killed crash on North Freeway angry over lossHoton police said Sarah Gay was toxited when she drove northbound the southbound lan of the I-45 North Freeway near the Whe Oak ex and h two rs. Florida Man Attacked by Two Men Yellg Anti-Gay Slurs Needs Your HelpA GoFundMe page has been created for a gay man Florida who was left wh multiple juri and mountg medil expens after he was btally attacked by two men yellg antigay slurs earlier this Breinbach was walkg home Conut Grove Miami on the eveng of July 8 when he was attacked.

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Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a woman.He said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3,000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos".He relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage"."It was so sweet seeg him so happy," Mr Cabreza said. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.