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• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• A RARE GLIMPSE AT MN.'S 1ST GAY WEDDG IN 1971
• WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• GAY MARRIAGE

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

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Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

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

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

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A RARE GLIMPSE AT MN.'S 1ST GAY WEDDG IN 1971

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

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. 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.

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

”For a time the early 1970s, the two had starrg natnal rol as spokmen for gay equaly, pecially Mr. 26, 1971, issue on “The Amerin Fay, ” they were featured as “The Homosexual Couple. ”“Some homosexuals — a mory — live together stable, often long-lastg relatnships, like Baker’s and McConnell’s, ” the article Mr.

Baker was elected 1971 as the openly gay stunt-body print of the Universy of Mnota, Walter Cronke reported on the nightly news.

GAY MARRIAGE

The uple appeared together on the fluential Phil Donahue and David Sskd by 1980, trated as the marriage issue failed to take off and unr attack by gay lears who lled them “crazi” for refg to make polil promis, they dropped out of public life. McConnell that he would figure out a way to, he beme the first print of FREE, for Fight Reprsn of Erotic Exprsn, which was among the untry’s earlit llege anizatns for gay rights. The group fought to hold gay and lbian danc on mp and forced rporate recers to pledge not to discrimate McConnell joed him and was promised a posn at the Universy of Mnota rearch his first year of law school, Mr.

McConnell threw his energy to creatg one of the untry’s earlit gay muny centers, and the uple scraped by on $75 a month om the G. SOURCE: “WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: AMERICA, EQUALITY, AND GAY PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO MARRY, ” BY EVAN WOLFSON (2004).

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