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Contents:
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE
- ‘WE JT WANT TO BE OURSELV’: KOREA’S FIRST GAY UPLE TO W URT REGNN
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * first gay couple to win *
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to 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.
LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE
* first gay couple to win *
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. A lbian uple who lnched a legal battle over equali IVF treatment between heterosexual and same-sex upl have dropped their fight after their lol re board pledged to make treatment sts media fluencers Megan and Whney Ban-Evans lnched a landmark “gay tax” discrimatn se after NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB) said same-sex upl, sgle women and upl unable to have vagal terurse would have to pay for 12 rounds of IVF before qualifyg for NHS assistance.
But havg watched their parents e to accept their marriage, So and Kim started to believe that Korean society is movg slowly toward legalizg gay marriage. Kim and So ma headl March as they beme the first gay uple South Korea to w a urt se regnizg a same-sex spoe as a pennt, a lg celebrated by the LGBTQ+ muny as makg a signifint step toward legalizatn of same-sex marriage.
Overturng a lower urt’s cisn, a high urt led that they are allowed to be vered by the natnal surance system on equal terms wh heterosexual upl, spe the untry not officially regnizg gay upl as maral partners. But polil chang are sential for gay rights Korea, they said. "There will surely be more gay married upl who pete at the same Gam, eher together or otherwise, " not USA Today reporter Mart Rogers.
‘WE JT WANT TO BE OURSELV’: KOREA’S FIRST GAY UPLE TO W URT REGNN
Startg the 1970s, however, a few state urts upheld ctody rights for transgenr, gay, and lbian parents, though some still required that they not live wh a partner or engage “homosexual activi. Bill Jon, a gay man, 1968 beme the first sgle father to adopt a child California and one of the first natnally—although, as he told NPR 2015, he was obliquely advised by a social worker not to mentn that he was gay.
A later, New York beme the first state not to reject adoptn applints solely bee of “homosexualy. ” A gay uple California 1979 beme the first the untry to jotly adopt a child. It wasn’t until 1997, however, that New Jersey beme the first state to allow same-sex upl to adopt jotly statewi, and not until 2010 did the last state, Florida, overturn a ban on adoptn by gay men and lbians.