26 Famo Gay People History - LGBTQ Rights Movement Facts for Pri Month

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All of a sudn, we’re beg treated to (and sometim sulted by) a crop of movi and TV shows that center cis gay men.

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20 GAY GREEK GODS

This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years. * gay culture heroes *

When Jordan’s Green Lantern buted 1959, Stt was relegated to an alternate universe and, over the s, he’s retired, returned to crime-fightg, been tossed limbo, bee an elr statman, and been rebooted as a young gay crimefighter on yet another alternate Earth.

This year, Green Lantern Alan Stt returned to his roots as an olr WWII-era hero who has “walked this Earth for a long time, much longer than should have been allotted, ” as he said March’s “Infe Frontier” the same issue, penned by bisexual wrer Jam Tynn IV, the gray-haired rg-slger out as gay to his adult children, the superhero duo Ja and Obsidian.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non. * gay culture heroes *

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THE SPRGTIME OF GAY POP CULTURE

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JT WHAT IS 'GAY CULTURE' IN 2013?

McGill beme famo for g his shirt to stanch bleedg om bullet wounds, while stctg others to do June The Advote published the stori of all 49 people whose liv were taken by mented gunman whose motiv appear to have n the gamut, cludg ternalized homophobia, relig extremism, and outright KfmanDaniel Kfman, 42, was one of 14 people killed when hband and wife Syed Farook and Tafsheen Malik opened fire at the Inland Regnal Center San Bernardo, Calif.

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