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• HISTORY’S FIRST GAY COUPLETHEY LIVED, DIED AND WERE BURIED TOGETHER AS EARLY AS 2400 B.C EGYPTKAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·3 M READ·AUG 13, 2020--5SHARENIANKHKHUM AND KHNUMHOTEPSOURCE: PUBLIC DOMAWHEN EGYPTOLOGISTS DISVERED THE TOMB AT SAQQARA, EGYPT 1964, THEY WERE SURPRISED. THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY TOMB THE NECROPOLIS WHERE A SAME-SEX UPLE WAS BURIED TOGETHER.WH MOST OF THE HISTORY GETTG LOST TRANSLATN, EGYPTOLOGISTS HAVE EXTRAPOLATED OM THE EVINCE THEIR TOMB THAT KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM ARE HISTORY’S FIRST DOCUMENTED GAY UPL. THE CLAIM OF A FIRST RERD SAME-SEX UPLE HAS MET NSIRABLE BATE ACROSS AMIANS.HIEROGLYPHS ADORNED ACROSS THE TOMB PICT THEM AS HOLDG HANDS, FACE TO FACE WH THEIR NOS TOUCHG, EMBRACG A WAY THAT PICTS A MARRIED UPLE.THE TOMB
• 10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
• AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED
• I WATCHED ONE OF BRA'S FIRST-EVER GAY WEDDGS
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

HISTORY’S FIRST GAY COUPLETHEY LIVED, DIED AND WERE BURIED TOGETHER AS EARLY AS 2400 B.C EGYPTKAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·3 M READ·AUG 13, 2020--5SHARENIANKHKHUM AND KHNUMHOTEPSOURCE: PUBLIC DOMAWHEN EGYPTOLOGISTS DISVERED THE TOMB AT SAQQARA, EGYPT 1964, THEY WERE SURPRISED. THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY TOMB THE NECROPOLIS WHERE A SAME-SEX UPLE WAS BURIED TOGETHER.WH MOST OF THE HISTORY GETTG LOST TRANSLATN, EGYPTOLOGISTS HAVE EXTRAPOLATED OM THE EVINCE THEIR TOMB THAT KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM ARE HISTORY’S FIRST DOCUMENTED GAY UPL. THE CLAIM OF A FIRST RERD SAME-SEX UPLE HAS MET NSIRABLE BATE ACROSS AMIANS.HIEROGLYPHS ADORNED ACROSS THE TOMB PICT THEM AS HOLDG HANDS, FACE TO FACE WH THEIR NOS TOUCHG, EMBRACG A WAY THAT PICTS A MARRIED UPLE.THE TOMB

This was the first and only tomb the necropolis where a same-sex uple was buried most of the history gettg lost translatn, Egyptologists have extrapolated om the evince their tomb that Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum are history’s first documented gay upl.

The rts—which took place after a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy—served as a talyst for the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and across the globe.

10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY

To honor that, we've round up some of the most historic firsts om the LGBTQ muny, om the first pro-gay film to the first state to repeal sodomy laws. Der Eigene (The Own), which was published om 1896 to 1932 by Adolf Brand om Berl, Germany, is nsired the first gay journal the world, acrdg to Out magaze.

AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED

Throughout the perdil's nearly 40 years of publitn, vered topics like homosexualy and bisexualy a number of lerary and artistic ways, cludg poetry, prose, polil manifto, and nu photography. One of the mtee's first iativ was a petn to repeal Paragraph 175, an anti-gay piece of legislatn Germany's Imperial Penal Co, which crimalized sexual acts between men.

I WATCHED ONE OF BRA'S FIRST-EVER GAY WEDDGS

It was the first gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat. Eisenhower that banned gay people om attag jobs ernment offic (1953).

And then, of urse, there were the sodomy laws that had been place each state for s, which ma engagg homosexual acts a crimal offense.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

In 1961, Illois beme the first state to repeal those sodomy laws and crimalize homosexual ntact between nsentg adults, acrdg to the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn.

Five months after the rts, activists Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Ellen Brody, and Lda Rhos ma a proposn at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns that there be an annual march New York Cy to memorate the event on the last Saturday of every June, acrdg to Back then, was lled the Christopher Street Liberatn Day, although the march was a precursor to what would later bee the NYC Pri March that still tak place today.

Multiple LGBT rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance, me together to form this march—and The New York Tim reported that participants took up nearly 15 cy blocks at the ial march. Released 1972, this Amerin ma-for-TV drama that premiered on ABC was the first to offer a sympathetic portrayal of homosexualy. In a 2007 terview wh The Dallas Voice, Sheen was asked if he had any hatn acceptg the role of a gay man the early 1970s.

DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG

He noted that he'd "robbed banks and kidnapped children and murred people" past rol and that he uldn't unrstand why people thought that "choosg to play a gay guy" was "nsired a reer enr. After participatg New York Cy's Christopher Street Liberatn Day 1972, Jeanne Manford (who's seen holdg the "parents" sign the photo above), the mother of Morty Manford, a gay man, created PFLAG 1973.

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

The acronym stands for Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays. Acrdg to the PFLAG webse, she cid to start the support group bee of her experience at the march, where "many gay and lbian people ran up to [her] … and begged her to talk to their parents [for them].

Its creatn spired siar groups offerg "'safe havens' and mutual support for parents wh gay and lbian children" across the untry, acrdg to s webse. While many believe the tle of first openly gay person to w a U. In April of 1997, Ellen Degener, then the star of the ABC s Ellen, appeared on the ver of Time magaze alongsi the ver le "Yep, I'm Gay.

And jt hours after that terview, DeGener' character on Ellen me out as gay as well an episo famoly lled "The Puppy Episo, " acrdg to Vany Fair. I remember how excg was whenever a gay TV character A) existed, and B. Blanche's gay brother Clayton was back town and gettg married to a hot, mtached p named Doug.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Blanche, who had prevly alt wh Clayton's g out a few seasons prr, still had trouble wrappg her head around the whole gay thg. I waed ont of my TV for other same-sex upl to validate the feelgs I had but uld not volize, to show me that was possible to fd love and be happy as a gay man. AdvertisementSKIP Jimenez for The New York TimMay 16, 2015MINNEAPOLIS — Long before the fight over same-sex marriage began earnt, long before gay upl began lg up for marriage licens, Jack Baker and Michael McConnell cid to year was 1967.

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

Homosexualy was still classified as a disorr, sodomy was illegal nearly every state, and most gay men and lbians lived fearful om the age of 14, eyeg young men his father’s barbershop, Mr. Lynn uple, now their early 70s, spoke this month a rare terview the hoe they share here, nearly half a century after they joed their liv and earned a place the history of gay rights, helpg to make Mnota an early center of gay Baker said he was proud that the Supreme Court this year heard the very same nstutnal arguments of equal protectn and due procs that he had intified as a law stunt 2013, when the Mnota Legislature thorized same-sex marriage and a state senator announced, “Today, love ws, ” Mr.