Jul 19 | SF Gay Men's Chos 'Hello Yellow Brick Road' 2023: San Francis | San Francis, CA Patch

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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.

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

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. “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.

FLORIDA GAY MAN BTALLY ATTACKED BY TWO MEN YELLG ANTIGAY SLURS

“Back then, ” he said, “many people tomatilly assumed that if you were gay, you were a pedophile or a groomer. 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.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

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.