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• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• MSNBC’S JOY REID APOLOGIZ FOR PAST COMMENTS ABOUT GAYS: ‘DISAPPOTED MYSELF’
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• 10 GAY WEDDG TRADNS AND RUALS
• HOST THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATN WH THE CREATIVE GAY WEDDG IAS
• OF GAY WEDDG CAK AND WOKE RTRANTS
• 8 INSPIRATNAL GAY AND LBIAN MARRIAGE QUOT

THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

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MSNBC’S JOY REID APOLOGIZ FOR PAST COMMENTS ABOUT GAYS: ‘DISAPPOTED MYSELF’

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JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

”After the strawberry cir, served by a man a tight whe vt – the only other gay man I’d seen real life – the squiggly summer sunlight ma a strobe effect through the park’s tre. The first time I saw wh him, when I was 18, I realised he had echoed the love story of the two protagonists, who also had their first kiss the twilight of Greenwich Park’s tre, and their first experience of a gay pub at the Gloucter.

The explanatn for his obssn is now clear: there was such a pcy of same-sex love stori that this was the first time many young people had seen a same-sex kiss, or peeked si an actual gay bar after dark. The project remds people “that we have always been here, good tim and bad, ” David Robson of the London LGBT+ Foms’ Network said when the plaqu were film and my own story were workg-class gay love: not dandyish and sheltered by the polse of privilege, but the btal realy of beg perceived a non-mascule boy. It was a powerful and rarely told tersectn – and one that, even more rarely, ends rather happily, wh a betiful scene of fiance and acceptance played to a Mama Cass waltz on the sk I disvered that I wasn’t the only wi-eyed baby gay my boyiend had been chasg through those ancient chtnuts that summer.

For me, the plaque honours that private moment as well as the shared history of the LGBTQ+ ’s the msage I’d impart to anyone who thks such symbols are meangls, as the unique social history of the UK’s gay bars is endangered by gentrifitn, hook-up apps, the st of livg crisis and even assiatn. Like many workg-class, closeted gay boys, I’d hi unr the glovebox of my boyiend’s Nova when we drove back om the park, lt anyone saw. It whispered to ckney-accented gay boys like me: there are others like you.

10 GAY WEDDG TRADNS AND RUALS

303 Creative (Gay Weddg Webse Case) is Completely Worthls and Here's the Lawyer Reason Why.

tl;dr - bakeri that don't bake k for gay weddgs n still get trouble for beg homophobic.

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HOST THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATN WH THE CREATIVE GAY WEDDG IAS

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OF GAY WEDDG CAK AND WOKE RTRANTS

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8 INSPIRATNAL GAY AND LBIAN MARRIAGE QUOT

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