As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
Contents:
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- CALIFORNIA HOLDS FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE 2008, SAN FRANCIS
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- SAN FRANCIS CY OFFICIALS PERFORM GAY MARRIAG
- FIRST GAY MARRIAG TO BE HELD SAN FRANCIS, LOS ANGEL
- GAY MARRIAGE
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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“They provid a place for lbians who were really, really, really the closet to hang out and dance, have holiday potlucks so they wouldn’t have to go home and hang out wh their homophobic relativ, ” said Shayne Watson, an archectural historian who specializ LGBTQ herage nservatn and was active the movement to get the home clared a and Lyon bought the simple one-bedroom hoe, terraced up the hillsi, as a uple 1955, the same year they -found the Dghters of Bilis, a polil and social anizatn for group started as a social support anizatn but quickly got to activism and polics. His advisors and gay rights advot had the perfect uple md to be the public face of the movement.
12, 2004, turned to a 29-day saga durg which more than 4, 000 upl wed, tapultg Newsom to the natnal move drew reb om social nservativ and proment Democrats, cludg gay rights ins and Newsom’s polil mentors. The fallout rippled to the 2004 printial electn and the succsful 2008 mpaign for Proposn 8, which banned gay marriag , five years sce the U.
”There was no ht that gay marriage would be anywhere on Newsom’s agenda when he ran for mayor 2003. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francis), has said that was the moment he knew he had to do after he told his chief of staff, Steve Kawa, who is gay, that he tend to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl.
CALIFORNIA HOLDS FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE 2008, SAN FRANCIS
Des of pa and perseverance San Francis's gay muny fally led to vditn the Bay Area and across the natn. This is a timele of historil events. * first gay marriage in san francisco *
”The hatn was shared by proment gay rights activists. ”The mayor’s growg natnal stature as a gay rights warrr irked some who long had worked for the e. “I really thk he stood on the shoulrs of a lot of people who had suffered and died, ” said Tom Ammiano, a former supervisor and assemblyman who is gay.
), who is gay, said Newsom had imperiled the strategy Massachetts — to show that allowg same-sex marriage one state would not be disptive — before the right was pursued elsewhere.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
California holds first gay weddg sce 2008, San Francis * first gay marriage in san francisco *
”The California Supreme Court ultimately stck down the state’s gay marriage ban 2008, promptg a triumphant Newsom to clare that marriage equaly would happen “whether you like or not.
SAN FRANCIS CY OFFICIALS PERFORM GAY MARRIAG
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. His announcement is a first for a male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league. * first gay marriage in san francisco *
As the first cy the USA to legalise gay marriage and elect an openly gay official (Harvey Milk), San Francis is a te gay in. After s of standg at the foreont of gay culture, ntu to be globally regnised as one of the most progrsive and LGBTQ+ iendly ci the world.
As the cy beme heavily populated wh young men lookg to strike gold out Wt, homosexualy beme more mon. In 1908, The Dash beme the first openly gay bar San Francis wh cross-drsg waers.
Durg World War 1, the US Navy began dischargg known homosexual and black soldiers port ci, known as the “blue discharge” practice.
FIRST GAY MARRIAG TO BE HELD SAN FRANCIS, LOS ANGEL
San Francis will hold s first gay marriage at 4:45 p.m. and Los Angel at 6:15 p.m. -- jt a ltle more than an hour after a feral appeals urt opened the way for same-sex weddgs to rume California. * first gay marriage in san francisco *
Th began the evolutn of San Francis’s large muny of gay men. As alhol was illegal until 1933, bars were already nng a risk, and was no more illegal to allow gay and lbian patrons to enter.
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Mona’s, the first lbian bar San Francis, opened on Unn Street 1934, while nightclubs wh drag shows attracted both gay and straight dienc. However, while alhol had bee legal, homosexualy remaed illegal.
The US ary’s blue discharge practice ntued to World War II, wh many gay men settlg San Francis at the end of the war. From 1942 to 1943, ary patrols known as the San Francis Moral Drive targeted and raid the gay bars of San Francis, claimg to be protectg servicemen om homosexuals.
In 1943, the police raid the gay bar Rickshaw Chatown, arrtg dozens of patrons and settg off a small rt. However, by the end of the 1940s, the gay bar scene was growg and queer bars beme not only a safe space for gay and lbian people, but also a statn for visors to the cy, who watched performanc and mgled wh the lols. Many beat poets, cludg those who were openly gay such as Allen Gsberg, me to San Francis due to the more permissive environment and aligned themselv wh LGBTQ+ groups.