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Contents:

• TEXAS GAY BAR TRANSFORMED TO PRINTIAL POLLG LOTN CLAIMS ’S FIRST TO DO SO
• JOE BIN VISS HISTORIC STONEWALL INN GAY BAR
• 11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY
• CLAIM: OBAMA HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BEE PRINT
• CHIGO BAR ASSOCIATN APPOTS 1ST OPENLY GAY PRINT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
• OBAMA IS 'GAY PRINT,' SHOULD 'COME OUT OF THE CLOSET,' SAYS DAVE DBENMIRE
• JULI' BAR, SE OF HISTORIC GAY 'SIP-,' THREATENED BY PANMIC
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW GAY BARS
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

TEXAS GAY BAR TRANSFORMED TO PRINTIAL POLLG LOTN CLAIMS ’S FIRST TO DO SO

Print Joe Bin on Friday signated the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, a natnal memorial, to honor the 49 people killed a 2016 mass shootg, and urged Congrs to pass laws explicly protectg civil rights of LGBTQ+ people. A gunman stormed the popular venue, openg fire wh an AR-15-style asslt rifle and pistol one of the most lethal morn mass shootgs the Uned, a shift om his Republin precsor, has sought to emphasize equaly for the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny, officially regnizg Pri Month wh a June 1 proclamatn and nomatg LGBTQ officials to top U.

REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst"Our prence this afternoon mak a very strong statement: Pri is back at the Whe Hoe, " Bin said, after beg troduced by Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is openly gay, and a young transgenr man, Ashton Friday, he named Jsi Stern, head of the New York-based human rights group OutRight Actn Internatnal, to be a special envoy at the U.

JOE BIN VISS HISTORIC STONEWALL INN GAY BAR

But civil rights activists said the massacre was also a hate crime targetg gay men and Latos equentg the new Orlando se will jo other memorials, cludg the Natnal AIDS Memorial Grove San Francis and New York Cy's Stonewall Inn, a natnal monument memoratg what is seen as the birthplace of the morn gay rights movement followg rts after police raid the gay bar has sought to reverse urse om former Print Donald Tmp, who did not officially regnize Pri has orred feral agenci to protect LGBTQ people unr feral anti-discrimatn laws. Buddy’s, which scrib self as a “morn gay bar wh events as diverse as Hoton, ” claims to be the first such tablishment to bee a printial pollg lotn. After his send fundraiser of the day New York Cy, former vice print and current 2020 printial ndidate Joe Bin was spotted talkg wh patrons and takg photos at the Wt Village gay 's vis me as a surprise to many, cludg Mark Segal, the founr of Philalphia Gay News and a longtime LGBTQ activist who was prent at the 1969 Stonewall uprisg — and durg Bin's vis Tuday.

11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY

C., and Print Barack Obama did not publicly support marriage Stonewall Inn has seen other high-profile guts this month, cludg Taylor Swift, who performed there last Tammy Baldw, D-Wisns, the untry's first openly gay U. The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, began the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club loted Greenwich Village New York Cy.

For stance, solicatn of same-sex relatns was illegal New York such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and socialize whout worry.

CLAIM: OBAMA HID 'GAY LIFE' TO BEE PRINT

However, the New York State Liquor Authory penalized and shut down tablishments that served alhol to known or spected LGBT dividuals, argug that the mere gatherg of homosexuals was “disorrly. But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U. Police raids forced them to disband 1925, but not before they had published several issu of their newsletter, “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did. When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars. In 1966, they purchased Stonewall Inn (a “straight” bar and rtrant), cheaply renovated , and reopened the next year as a gay bar.

CHIGO BAR ASSOCIATN APPOTS 1ST OPENLY GAY PRINT

And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi.

Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para.

”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny. At the time, homosexual acts remaed illegal every state except Illois, and bars and rtrants uld get shut down for havg gay employe or servg gay patrons. Most gay bars and clubs New York at the time were operated by the Mafia, who paid rptible police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threateng to “out” them.

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED

Here, protters monstrate outsi the New York gay bar, Christopher's the early hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raid by police wh no warng.

Sylvia Rivera was a Lata-Amerin drag queen who beme one of the most radil gay and transgenr activists of the 1960s and '70s. As -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rivera was known for participatg the Stonewall Rts and tablishg the polil anizatn STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari). After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village.

OBAMA IS 'GAY PRINT,' SHOULD 'COME OUT OF THE CLOSET,' SAYS DAVE DBENMIRE

" This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay unintified group of young people celebrate outsi the board-up Stonewall Inn after the rts.

”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement. They are pictured here marchg Tim Square,, Sylvia Ray Rivera (ont) and Arthur Bell are seen at a gay liberatn monstratn, New York Universy, 1970 Marsha P. Johnson is seen at a Gay Liberatn Front monstratn at Cy Hall New York, a large crowd memorat the 2nd anniversary of the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village of New York Cy 1971.

Consirg how much people love to speculate on who might and might not be gay — I thk ’s replaced baseball and oby as Ameri’s favore pastime — I was surprised I uldn’t fd a sgle list out about the potential closeted homosexualy of the U. Apologi to Elanor Roosevelt who would’ve ma the cut if I really need to fudge thgs… and also to Harry Tman, whose ployg of the Enola Gay was gog to be my emergency 11th pick if I uldn’t fd anyone better. Still, tabloid speculatn and beg one of the most pro-gay rights prints ever isn’t enough to ph him any higher on the list than last.

JULI' BAR, SE OF HISTORIC GAY 'SIP-,' THREATENED BY PANMIC

That beg said, a book lled Jack and Lem dug ep to his lifelong iendship wh a gay man named Lem Billgs… and at least threw some iffs to the mix. Sce the man who was clost to LBJ for 25 years turned out to be gay on the down low (he had a wife and six kids; they separated a few years after the sndal) — speculatn surfaced that maybe there was somethg between Johnson and Jenks. If the past ten years have tght anythg, ’s the lour a polician ralli agast gay rights, the more likely he is to wd up gettg ught sgg “Glory, Glory Hole-allujah.

In 1953, Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, which classified gays and lbians as potential natnal secury threats and banned them om workg for the ernment.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

But I rearched every sgle print for this list — and when people do get around to jawg on Chter A., the homosexual thg keeps poppg up. A proment member of Chigo's homosexual muny claims Barack Obama's participatn the "gay" bar and bathhoe scene was so well known that many who were aware of his liftyle were shocked when he ran for print and fally won the Whe Hoe. "It was prepostero to the people I knew then to thk Obama was gog to keep his gay life secret, " said Kev DuJan, who was a gossip lumnist Chigo for var blogs when Obama was livg the cy as a muny anizer and later a state senator.

DuJan, founr and edor of the Hillary Clton-supportg webse, told WND he has first-hand rmatn om two different sourc that "Obama was personally volved the gay bar scene. “If you jt hang out at the bars, the olr guys who have been equentg the gay bars for 25 years will tell you the stori, ” DuJan said.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

“It is mon knowledge the Chigo gay muny that Obama actively vised the gay bars and bathho Chigo while he was an Illois state senator, ” Madsen told WND. WND also spoke wh a member of the East Bank Club Chigo, who nfirmed Obama was a member there and was known to be a homosexual. But 's one of a number of plac intified by the Chigo homosexual muny as a "gay gym, " where homosexuals meet and engage sexual activy.

MOSW GAY BARS

In April, WND reported a feral judge dismissed a libel se agast Larry Sclair, a homosexual who claimed Obama’s 2008 printial mpaign had paid to rig a polygraph tt regardg Sclair’s sensatnal charge that he had sex and ed e twice wh Obama while Obama was an Illois state senator. WND also reported former radil activist John Drew has said that when he met Obama when Obama was a stunt at Occintal College, he thought Obama and his then-Pakistani roommate were "gay" lovers. DuJan said that durg Obama's first printial mpaign, "there was fear the gay muny" about talkg openly about Obama beg homosexual, particularly after the murr December 2007 of Donald Young, the openly gay choir director at Jeremiah Wright’s Try Uned Church of Christ, who was known to be a close iend of Obama.

"Then, when we saw how Larry Sclair was monized, anybody who would expose Obama worried they would be silenced if they dared to speak the tth about Obama's gay life, " DuJan said. “Print Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bathhoe uptown Chigo, acrdg to rmed sourc Chigo’s gay muny, as well as veteran polil sourc the cy, ” Madsen wrote. DuJan gave WND a list of "gay" bars Chigo where olr ctomers hang out and tell stori about how Obama, prr to 2004, equented vised to pick up men for sex, cludg several on Halstead Street, wily known as an “uber-gay Chigo street.

“Someday, " he said, " the next 10-20 years, everyone will know all about Man’s Country, and the place will no doubt get a plaque of sometime memoratg that place as a gay hangout for the future lear of the ee world. “The thg that’s unique about Col’s place that will be helpful for LGBT people is that they n actually go to a gay bar, ” Smh said.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

It don’t take much longer to disver that the popular unrstandg of Jam Buchanan as our natn’s first gay print riv om his relatnship wh one man particular: William Ruf DeVane Kg of Alabama. In the sh to make new meang of the past, I have e to unrstand why today has bee rigr to nsir Buchanan our first gay print.

” In the November 1987 issue of Penthoe Magaze, New York gossip lumnist Sharon Churcher noted the fdg an article headled “Our First Gay Print, Out of the Closet, Fally. Worse still, movg Buchanan and Kg om iends to lovers blocks the way for a person today to assume the proper mantle of beg our first gay print. By Andrea Keckley (June 29, 2023, 2:29 PM EDT) -- The managg member of Clark Hill PLC's Chigo office was set to be sworn Thursday as print of the Chigo Bar Associatn, the first openly gay person to hold the role....

Some of the most popular theori about whether there has ever been a gay print surround Print Jam Buchanan, one-term print om 1857-1861. “It might be more accurate to say that there may have been prints the past who sired men, or had sexual experienc wh men… they wouldn’t have necsarily intified as gay a 21st century sense. For Buttigieg to say that another print may have been gay the way that ’s unrstood the 21st century, “’s jt farcil, ” Balcerski says.