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Contents:

• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI
• 'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

Although there's no way to know every lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr hero through the centuri, we do know about some -- even as far back history as ancient 's our list of 16 (and, well, a few more) LGBT hero who ma the world a better place through acts of urage and serve to be remembered for their SippleIn many ways, the life story of Oliver Sipple, a gay former Mare who saved the life of Print Gerald R. Afterward, his parents and brother, who lived the Detro area, were tnted about Sipple's homosexualy by fellow General Motors factory workers as well as their neighbors.

He acknowledged this impact his 2014 terview wh Sports Illtrated: "It has been 18 exhilaratg months sce I me out Sports Illtrated as the first openly gay man one of the four major profsnal team sports. And has been ne months sce I signed wh the Nets and beme the first openly gay male athlete to appear a game one of those leagu. It feels wonrful to have been part of the ton for sports and for gay rights, and to have been embraced by the public, the ach, the players, the league and history.

MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI

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Leonard Matlovich had hoped would happen, when he offered up his heroilly distguished ary reer -- a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and numero other wartime honors earned Vietnam -- by g out publicly as gay 1975. 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. "Hans SchollHans Scholl's impish bety radiat fiantly even today om the black-and-whe 1930s and '40s snapshots that survived after the Nazi ernment behead him for beg one among a rare classifitn of hero: Germans who rebelled agast the Nazi by a fascist urt for the "crime" of homosexualy and later for treason, Scholl was only 23 when he was executed by guillote.

'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER

She is for many reasons the prototypil AIDS regiver-activist om a bygone an dividual basis, Jter was there to take re of the personal needs for the sick gay man whose folks back home were not ready to accept a sudn g-out om their gay son, much ls a g-out wh a sibar of, "And by the way, I'm dyg of an AIDS-related illns. "In 2013, Jter told the San Diego Gay and Lbian News, "It was que a different atmosphere 1985 and a much different feelg the air.

For those participants who were born post-1985 the bt way I uld scribe those dark days is to say that AIDS the '80s was the 'gay muny's 9/11' and we were at the center of ground zero. Historians also thk he was homosexual—and served as an openly gay man the ary at a time when sex between men was punished as a crime.