Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
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- XTRA, GAY NEWSPAPER TORONTO, OTTAWA AND VANUVER, ANNOUNC END OF PRT
- TORONTO’S GAY BIWEEKLY NEWSPAPER TO CEASE PRT PUBLITN
- TORONTO GAY CY GUI: FDG YOUR PLACE THE GAY VILLAGE CY
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
XTRA, GAY NEWSPAPER TORONTO, OTTAWA AND VANUVER, ANNOUNC END OF PRT
Xtra, the inic gay and lbian newspaper Toronto, Ottawa and Vanuver, announced on Wednday would be foldg s prt offergs. * toronto gay newspaper *
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It highlighted lol polil issu, celebrated queer art and emphasized a muny volvement the gay, lbian and trans webse,, and gay adult datg webse,, will expand this missn, acrdg to Ken Popert, executive director and print of Pk Triangle Prs.
Toronto's Pri Para is a huge celebratn that honours all members of the LGBTQ+ muny, brgg thoands of people all around the globe as one of the largt anized gay pri ftivals the world. "[Comg out] radilly changed my life, I was beg myself, I'm 100 per cent gay and I'm proud of , " he 66-year-old said he felt "terrified" his whole life, but now after g out and attendg his first Pri, he feels ee. 22, 1972, I woke up next to Rich Wanl, the print of the Gay Activists Alliance of New was the hottt anizatn of the nascent gay-liberatn movement, so was a up to have him Toronto for our first Gay Pri Week.
TORONTO’S GAY BIWEEKLY NEWSPAPER TO CEASE PRT PUBLITN
The cy’s first Pri para me at a strange moment. In 1972, the notn of gay people appearg unashamedly public was unthkable to many * toronto gay newspaper *
That eveng, he was to be part of a panel wh other proment activists at the CHAT Centre, the headquarters of the Communy Homophile Associatn of Toronto, loted an old synagogue on Cecil Street near Spada had lnched both the CHAT Centre and Gay Pri Week three days before, wh a group of gay-pri T-shirts marchg down the buildg’s fire pe sgg Hello, Gay Pri Week – a showtune parody wh a chos proclaimg “all those closets will e tumblg down.
” Gee Hislop, print of CHAT, had given a short speech om the top of the fire pe, and I also said a few words on behalf of the activist group, Toronto Gay Actn, vg people to the Gay Piic on Ward’s Island the next day and the Gay Pri Para the followg I spooned out granola for Wanl on that warm Tuday morng, a GAA member named John Wojtowicz awoke wh different plans for the day. Bigamy was not a ncern, of urse, sce legalized gay marriage was not even an activist’s pipe dream at the this photo gallery:A photo of John Wojtowicz and Carmen Biful’s weddg featured The Dog, a 2013 documentary about Wojtowicz’s this photo gallery:Liz En married Wojtowicz 1971.
” He soon acquired weapons and reced two young acplic he had met a Village gay bar: Bobby Wtenberg, 20, and Sal Naturale, who was only 18. Wojtowicz’s hostage drama had bee a media sensatn, and live TV verage reported that he was “an avowed homosexual” wantg money to pay for his lover’s “sex-change operatn.
TORONTO GAY CY GUI: FDG YOUR PLACE THE GAY VILLAGE CY
Loted on the northwtern shore of betiful Lake Ontar, Toronto is the pal cy of Ontar and a diverse, multicultural cy wh a thrivg and vibrant LGBTQ muny. Toronto is fact home to Canada’s only “Gay Village”, which is one of the largt, most unique, and welg LGBTQ muni the world. Tly, would be a wonrful cy to ll home! * toronto gay newspaper *
At the start of his talk, Wanl scribed the afternoon’s events but was terpted by morator Kathleen Brdley, a CHAT board member, who stated firmly: “I jt want to say that my gay liberatn do not clu guns! Gay prott march 1965 outsi the Whe scribed how Kameny had asked the men to appear jackets and ti and the women high heels and nylons, and how she had clutched her plard whe-knuckled terror.
She also spoke about her work lobbyg the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn to drop s classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns, which would eventually do this photo gallery:Gerald Hannon Christensen/The Globe and MailThe last speaker was Gerald Hannon, who, like me, was part of the llective of the gay-liberatn newspaper, The Body Polic, and was a member of Toronto Gay Actn. In his gentle, mellifluo barone, Hannon outled his thoughts on the panel’s theme – the “open society” – and then closed by sayg that for gay liberatn to succeed, we would have to do two thgs: “close the church; get the kids. When I searched the pag of The Globe and Mail that morng, I only found a small wire service story wh the headle, Homosexuals Occupy Bank, Hold Hostag.
A few pag later, however, there was an article tled Gay Liberatn that set my pulse racg: “Sce this is gay pri week, ” began, “ which our homosexuals celebrate their new awarens, may be the ial time to ask this qutn: should public money be ed to enurage homosexuals to explo children? In , he said Hannon claimed that scg children is a highly sirable activy for adult homosexual men and “the experience is potentially an enrichg one for both parti and a step toward a sex-posive culture. I ma a panicked ll to Jearld Molnher, the founr of The Body Polic and unofficial lear of the cy’s young gay radils.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
Another is g to an end and the 2010s have been huge for historil moments LGBTQ+ reprentatn, acceptance and progrs. A number of untri cludg the U.S. and Atralia fally legalized gay marriage natnwi, transgenr issu are gettg a lot more attentn and more and more people are fortable intifyg as non-bary and/or queer. * toronto gay newspaper *
” Until then, the mastream media had studly ignored gay liberatn – fact, The Globe and The Toronto Star refed to even e the term “gay. ”Hannon’s cendiary article had blown open the prs blackout, and the next day The Globe ran an edorial tled Wh the Law?, which opened wh: “The homosexual sctn of a child is a loathsome, pernic thg. The Star went even further wh an edorial tled No Open Season on Children, which suggted that the 1969 Crimal Co amendment that legalized homosexual acts between nsentg adults, should be rcd if “homosexuals are g their eedom om prosecutn as adults to jeopardize children.
”The lumny that gay men were a danger to children was somethg the homophile movement had been fightg for years. 26 – the day of the first Gay Pri March. I marched bi the large Gay Pri banner at the ont llg out the chants wh a bullhorn: “Two, four, six, eight, gay is jt as good as straight!
” and “gay power! Grossman’s Tavern provid a ftive fish by sendg the Downchild Blu Band – the group that would spire Dan Aykroyd’s Blue Brothers – to the centre for an impromptu reviewg the events of the week for the tumn issue of The Body Polic, I nclud: “Gay Pri Week – a greater tt of our gay pri than anyone uld have imaged.