Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. His announcement is a first for a male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league.
Contents:
- 40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA
- WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
- FORMER GAY BAR BUILDG TURNED SGLE-FAY HOME ASKS $5.9 LN
- GAY SF PASTOR ARRTED ON CHILD PORN CHARG
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- GAY SAN FRANCIS
40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. * gay san francisco 2018 *
40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. 40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.
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WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
Ah, San Francis Pri—'s the hap-happit season of no matter how many years you've partied up, parad around your tut and rabow wigs and glter lash and birthday sus, you jt don't get tired of the magil, wonrful, gay AF ftivi that roll around each June. And t... * gay san francisco 2018 *
This all 40 years after the assassatn of the first openly gay elected official California, Harvey Milk. In California, a nservative state senator named John Briggs was phg a statewi ballot measure - Prop 6 - to ban gay and lbian teachers.
Harvey Milk, an openly gay member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, led the fight agast the proposn, batg Briggs around the state. He thought the murr meant the end of the gay rights movement. Today the seat Milk held when he was killed is occupied by another openly gay man, Rafael MANDELMAN: As someone who was 5 years old when he was shot, I am ntually grateful, not jt for Harvey but for the folks of that generatn who really did change the But first, Manlman not, Milk changed himself.
But he worri that as queer people are priced out of gay neighborhoods like the Castro, dilut their polil power. Gwen Craig, who me to San Francis the 1970s and worked wh Harvey Milk before he was killed, trac all back to Milk phg people to e out of the CRAIG: I do thk that he sort of started this path that ma possible for the openly gay officials that were elected this last round.
FORMER GAY BAR BUILDG TURNED SGLE-FAY HOME ASKS $5.9 LN
Tom Wadll, an athlete the 1968 Olympics, created the Gay Gam first held 1982 to celebrate LGBTQ cln. The Gay Gam are still held to this day wh the next round schled for 2022 Hong Kong. * gay san francisco 2018 *
A prev versn of this story rrectly stated that Gee Mosne was the first openly gay elected official California. In fact, Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected official California. Ah, San Francis Pri—'s the hap-happit season of no matter how many years you've partied up, parad around your tut and rabow wigs and glter lash and birthday sus, you jt don't get tired of the magil, wonrful, gay AF ftivi that roll around each June.
His gay and lbian iends San Francis, though, had never experienced an event as thrillg or movg as the openg ceremony. And so Wadll created the Gay Gam – then lled the Gay Olympics, until the Internatnal Olympic Commtee sued over the name.
GAY SF PASTOR ARRTED ON CHILD PORN CHARG
SAN FRANCISCO (CA) Bay State Reporter December 5, 2018 By Alex Madison A gay San Francis pastor, who has historilly fought for gay rights the Lutheran Church, was arrted on charg of posssn of child pornography, acrdg to the San Francis Police Department. The Reverend Steven Sab, pastor at Christ Church Lutheran at Qutara Street and 20th Avenue, was arrted November 15 on three felony charg. Sab, 59, was arraigned November 21 and plead not guilty to one unt of distributn of child pornography and two unts of posssn or ntrol of child pornography, acrdg to a spokman for the San Francis District Attorney’s office. Private fense attorney Art Lipton is reprentg Sab. Lipton did not rpond to a requt for ment om the Bay Area Reporter. * gay san francisco 2018 *
“The formula for succs was visibily and inty, ” Wadll said an terview followg the first Gay Gam 1982. That’s what the first Gay Gam were all about.
Wadll died 1987, but the Gay Gam ntue to this day, growg to an ternatnal phenomenon sce their first eratn. They draw over 10, 000 athlet and sometim seven or eight tim as many spectators, said Shiv Pl, vice print of external relatns for the Feratn of Gay Gam. You don’t have to be a profsnal athlete – even a proficient one – to pete the Gay Gam.
You don’t even have to be gay.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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And unlike at the Olympics, activism is enuraged at the Gay Gam, as has been sce the begng when the HIV/AIDS crisis was ravagg LGBTQ muni. Above all, though, the Gay Gam are an event for queer and trans people to gather safely, play sports they love and be themselv whout fear of tolerance. The first Gay Gam were held San Francis 1982, where transmissn of HIV had peaked among the cy’s btlg gay muny.
The Gay Gam uld be an act of prott then, too, Wadll cid, an event durg which LGBTQ people uld play the same sports they watched durg the Olympics and achieve the same kd of glory he had at the 1968 Olympics.
GAY SAN FRANCIS
Dcriptn: Gay San Francis by Jonathan Raymond, is a prevly lost documentary pictg queer life San Francis five s ago. Shot between... * gay san francisco 2018 *
HIV/AIDS awarens has been baked to the Gay Gam sce s ceptn: In addn to banng discrimatn based on genr, sexualy, race and other tras, the Gay Gam wouldn’t allow any participant to be turned away based on their HIV stat. The Gay Gam also succsfully lobbied the US ernment to briefly waive a prev ban on HIV-posive people enterg the untry so they uld pete the 1994 Gay Gam New York and the 1996 Olympics Atlanta, chang ma wh the help of the US Olympic Commtee.
Anyone n participate the Gay Gam – really, jt about anyone. Though Wadll emphasized that sports weren’t the central foc of the Gay Gam, the event has hosted athlet wh real prows.
Swimmer Jim Ballard set a world rerd the 100-meter backstroke 2002 at the Sydney Gay Gam. Powerlifter Chris Man began his reer at the Gay Gam and went on to w another 30 medals at var world champnships. And unlike the “regular Olympics, ” at the Gay Gam, a same-sex figurg skatg pair n don matchg nim jumpsus a performance set to “Hopelsly Devoted to You.