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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• 30 INFAMO POLICE RAIDS OF GAY BARS AND BATHHO
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• LAS 10 PRCIPAL PLAYAS GAY EN MIAMI Y LA FLORIDA
• ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND

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

He is a gay activist and the owner of Club Baths, the largt gay bathhoe cha the natn. When Ana Bryant appeared on the scene wh her homophobic philosopy and the anizatn, she found Save Our Children, Inc. Jack Campbell led the fight Miami, to keep gay rights he anized a group lled the Da County Coaln for Human Rights.

One of the most important velopments the history of the gay baths volved gay ownership and the foundg of one particular bathhoe cha Ameri. By 1973 the Club Baths had almost 500, 000 rd-rryg members, which was not surprisg sce the 70's was the that saw the largt number of gay bathho open their doors to the thoands of men who would make their rridors buzz to life. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

30 INFAMO POLICE RAIDS OF GAY BARS AND BATHHO

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.

Raids on gay bars and bathho served to spire the historic Stonewall rts that lnched the morn LGBT rights movement the U.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

Fifty years after the Black Cat protts Los Angel, which directly led to the lnch of The Advote, we take a look at some of the most nsequential strik on gay bars and bathho datg back more than a century. The rmatn gathered actually led to a wir vtigatn of homosexualy nearby ci, which rulted 20 arrts, cludg two ps on the Baker Street beat, acrdg to Allan Bebe's A History of Bathho. Turkish Baths (1929)Moral reformers New York Cy raised polil prsure on police the 1920s to shut down the Lafayette Brothers' Turkish Baths, a popular spot for gay men livg and visg the cy.

A German gay magaze 1929 published an acunt of a 26-year-old European visor that said eight tectiv went unrver the bathhoe, then round all patrons the ont room and beat the guts.

Cooper's Donuts (1959)Loted between Los Angel gay bars Harold's and the Waldorf, Cooper's Donuts at night beme a hub of social activy for drag queens, gays, trans people, and htlers the 1950s. While one of the first known phbacks agast police raids, likely would have been fotten if not for the fact gay lerature pneer John Rechy happened to be there as the time. 21st Street Baths (1966)San Francis police 1966 announced a crackdown on gay bathho and March of that year raid the 21st Street Baths.

LAS 10 PRCIPAL PLAYAS GAY EN MIAMI Y LA FLORIDA

Black Cat (1967)A New Year's police raid on the Black Cat, a gay bay the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angel, rulted the beatgs of more than a dozen people; two men were arrted for the crime of kissg and a bartenr suffered a ptured spleen. While such raids of gay bars were mon the late 1960s, the severy of this cint sparked protts for weeks. It also led Richard Mch and Bill M to lnch lol gay rights newsletter PRIDE (Personal Rights Defense and Edutn), which would later bee The Advote.

Dover Hotel (1969)The Dover Hotel Los Angel operated practilly as a gay bathhoe, and as such drew the attentn of police, who nducted equent raids. The raid would prompt a monstratn by the Gay Liberatn Front and other anizatns that moved through the day om Sheridan Square to St.

Liberty Baths (1978)California lawmakers 1976 passed a nsentg adults law part to stop persecutn of gays through bathhoe raids, but that didn't stop San Francis ps om raidg Liberty Baths an apparent tt of that law, acrdg to A History of Bathho. Club Baths, Romans II, Richmond Street and Barracks (1981)While gay Amerins have Stonewall, LGBT Canadians have Operatn Soap.

ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS

Browni (1988)London gay sna Browni was closed down by a police raid 1988. The owner of the Streatham tablishment would end up fed 5, 000 pounds and sentenced to six months jail, somethg Gay News at the time would label a "dranian sentence.

Copa and Club 21 (1991)The Broward County Sheriff's Office nducted jot raids of Florida gay bars Club 21 and Copa on May 3, 1991, and the cints would play a role Sheriff Nick Navarro eventually losg reelectn, ironilly after nductg such raids an apparent publicy stunt. Byron Jon, who led a group om the Gay and Lbian Youth Group Club 21 the eveng of the raid, wrote later The Advote that hundreds were taed by police though only six were arrted. Junjie (2000)Three years after Cha crimalized homosexualy, police Guangzhou July 2000 raid the Junjie men's health and bety center and arrted 37 men on charg of prostutn.

Goliath's Sna (2002)Police Calgary, Canada, drew cricism after a 2002 raid of Goliath's Sna & Texas Lounge, the only gay bathhoe town. Taboo (2003)Montreal police raid gay strip bar Taboo on May 10, 2003, then publicly suggted they were specifilly raidg the tablishment bee of the potential for olr men preyg on young dancers. Haton's Warehoe Spa and Bath (2004)Unr the guise of dog public health spectns, thori Haton, Canada, on Augt 4, 2004, arrted two patrons for cency and sparked outrage the Canadian gay muny.

GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND

Police later admted learng gay activi happened at the tablishment thanks to spottg ments on a gay cisg webse, spe ially suggtg they had no ia the bs was a bathhoe. Dtatn and Oasis (2008)Durg what AIDS activist Wan Yahai suggted was a crackdown on gays Beijg, the Dtatn got closed March 9, 2008, by police supposedly for playg mic too loud and hostg too large a crowd, acrdg to an article the Shangaiist.