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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• FANS ARE GOG ALL ON CELEBRATG GRIMACE’S BIRTHDAY AND CLARG HIM A GAY IN
• SAT SEBASTIAN AS A GAY IN
• GAY IN
• GAY IN

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

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.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. Our list of the top 14 LGBT+ activists, artists and ins to follow on social media will help keep your head clear by keepg your feeds filled only wh the smartt, most rmed (and opnated) people the game — om pop sensatn Sam Smh, who recently announced that they now go by they/them pronouns, to the creator of a quirky, queer datg platform, and the first openly gay man to n for Print of the Uned Stat.

Alphonso David beme the first person of lor to lead the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the untry’s largt LGBT rights group — another superlative to add to his growg roster, which also clus beg the first black and openly gay man to serve as chief unsel to the ernor of New York.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

It won the 2019 Digal Publishg Award for bt digal lumn that this is the 100th edn of this lumn and that we're nearg the fal days of my first full wrg about all thgs gay on the regular, I figured why not go all out and unt down the queer pop culture moments that fed an absolutely extraordary for LGBTQ excellence? Andrew Stt on FleabagBeyond beg more or ls the greatt achievement serial storytellg 2010s, the send season of Fleabag also let gay actor Andrew Stt bee the most lted after man the world for a hot mute thanks to his perfectly sexy (and jt perfect general) portrayal of "Hot Prit.

Scht's CreekArguably the most popular Canadian televisn export sce The Kids and the Hall (if not ever), CBC's very own Scht's Creek gave both everyone's favoure pansexual sweater enthiast David Rose (seri -creator Dan Levy) and the fictnal utopia we all serve: a world where homophobia don't seem to exist and David's sexualy is simply accepted by all the show's characters whout qutn. Followg an agg novelist as he travels the world on a lerary tour (though really he's avoidg the weddg of an ex-boyiend), Ls is very much about what means to get old as a gay 's also hilar and romantic, landg wh a perfect endg that still mak me tear up when I thk about .

FANS ARE GOG ALL ON CELEBRATG GRIMACE’S BIRTHDAY AND CLARG HIM A GAY IN

Pedro Almodóvar's Pa and GloryAnother masterfully realized reflectn on gay agg is currently still cemas: Pedro Almodóvar's Pa and Glory, a semi-tobgraphil look at a filmmaker whose hope and health is fadg, portrayed by longtime Almodóvar me Anton Banras sentially playg Almodóvar  a reer-bt performance (give him an Osr nomatn, please). And while pretty much everythg he did sce qualifi as queer excellence, peak Perfume was probably the gleamg, epic 2014 sgle "Queen, " which he has scribed as a song spired by "gay panic" and " the power one n rive om knowg their mere beg is makg everyone around them extremely unfortable. Please Like Me Inially — and rctively — pegged as "an Atralian Girls if Hannah were a gay du, " Please Like Me centred on 20-somethg Josh (played by and suggtively based on creator Josh Thomas) as he navigated his relatnships wh his lovers, fay and iends (cludg Hannah Gadsby).

Billy Porter's red rpet fashnNo one refed what celebry male fashn uld look like this more than actor Billy Porter, whose tuxedo gown was lerally the bt thg about this year's Osrs and who wore this while beg the first openly gay Black man to w an Emmy for bt drama actor. Kate McKnon and Bowen Yang on Saturday Night LiveTwo of the few unniably great thgs about a very uneven for Lorne Michaels's 45-season-and-untg Saturday Night Live were the addns of two tremendoly talented gay edians: Kate McKnon (who joed 2012 and has been the bt thg about SNL ever sce) and Bowen Yang (who me on as a wrer 2018 and st member  2019). Anchored by a stunng, who-knew-he-had-that--him performance by Darren Criss as Cunanan, The Assassatn of Gianni Versace ultimately me together as a btal and brilliant dissectn of homophobia — both ternal and stutnal — unlike anythg televisn's ever seen.

Lady Gaga took a song wh lyrics like "Don't be a drag, jt be a queen" and "No matter gay, straight, or bi / Lbian, transgenr life / I'm on the right track, baby / I was born to survive" and phed as far to the mastream as possible, sellg over 8 ln pi worldwi of the track alone and performg at the 2017 Super Bowl halftime show for 117.

SAT SEBASTIAN AS A GAY IN

Gay ins of all orientatns have acknowledged the role that their gay fans have played their succs, cludg Lady Gaga, Bette Midler, Cher, Diana Ross, Madonna, Ja Jackson, Kylie Mogue, Mariah Carey, Spice Girls, Charli XCX, Brney Spears, Cheryl, Mara Diamandis, Christa Aguilera, Lana Del Rey, and Jennifer Lopez. The earlit gay in may have been Sat Sebastian, [1] a Christian sat and martyr, whose batn of strong and shirtls physique, symbolic arrow-pierced flh and rapturo look of pa have trigued artists, both gay and straight, for centuri and began the first explicly gay cult the neteenth century. Johnson, [11] Sylvia Rivera, [11] Derek Jarman, [11] Amel Robl Ávila, [11] San Sontag, [12] Karl Herich Ulrichs, [13] Barbara Gtgs, [11] Essex Hemphill, [14] Audre Lor, [15] Virgia Woolf, Giao Casanova, Walt Whman, Anaïs N, and Aled Ksey are regard as gay ins.

For example, Greek-Amerin opera sger Maria Callas—who reached her peak the 1950s—beme a gay in bee the uniquely pellg quali of her stage performanc were allied to a temptuo private life, a sequence of unhappy love affairs, and a lonely premature ath Paris after her voice had serted her. Indian actor Anil Kapoor[27] and actrs Sonam Kapoor, [28] Taiwane sger Jol Tsai, [29] Hong Kong sger Llie Chng, [30] South Korean pop group Girls' Generatn, [31] Che Ren Hang (photographer) and Thai sger Christa Aguilar[32] have been lled gay ins. [33] Spanish actrs Carmen Mra, Spanish polician Pedro Zerolo, [34] Italian sgers Ma and Raffaella Carrà, Sttish pop sger Jimmy Somerville, German actrs and sger Hilgard Knef, and English sgers Dty Sprgfield and Sophie Ellis-Bextor are also nsired gay ins, [35][36][37][38][39][40] as are French entertaers Dalida, Mylène Farmer, Lorie, Jenifer, Alizée, and Ysa Ferrer, Ukraian boy band Kazaky, Turkish sger Ajda Pekkan, and Italian actrs Isabella Rosselli.

Sger Gloria Trevi is nsired a gay in, pecially after her release of "Todos me miran" ("Everyone's Lookg at Me") featurg a rejected gay man turned drag queen, but had been popular wh the gay and lbian muny Mexi sce the begng of her reer for beg a ntroversial and powerful sger. Other artists who have fought for gay rights the untry are the mol and actrs Patricia Velásquez, the play wrer Isaac Chocrón, the journalist Boris Izaguirre, the actors Édgar Ramírez and Luis Fernánz as for the youtuber Pedro Figueira known as La Divaza. [63] Though Crawford had been a notable film star durg the 1930s and 1940s, acrdg to David Bret, thor of Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr, was not until her 1953 film Torch Song that she was seen as a "plete gay in, primarily bee was shot lor.

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The first gay in of the 1970s unrground gay dis scene was the "Queen of Dis" Donna Summer, whose dance songs beme anthems for the clubbg gay muny, and her mic the back beat to the battl of the gay rights movement of the 1970s. [65] Her number one sgle "Love to Love You Baby"—regard as an "absolute dis epic"—not only beme a gay anthem bee of s "unabridged sexualy", but also brought European-oriented dis to the Uned Stat and fluenced the urse the rerdg dtry would take the followg years. [66] However, Summer beme immersed ntroversy when, after beg a Born aga Christian, and durg a 1983–84 tour, at the dawn of the HIV/AIDS crisis, she was allegedly reported as makg homophobic remarks; cludg that "AIDS was God's punishment to homosexuals.

[68] The Village People, a pneerg dis group, are also regard as gay ins for brgg gay dis culture to the mastream wh their popular dis and dance hs; and their stum, wh each member of the group reprentg a part of gay eroti (a policeman, a sailor, a nstctn worker, a wboy, a leather clad man). Artists particularly embraced by the gay muny durg the 1980s clud Whney Hoton, [83] Joan Jett, [84] Ta Turner, [83] Patti Labelle, Template:Catn need Karen Carpenter, [84] Alaska, Template:Catn need Charo, Lou Reed, [9] Dolly Parton, [85] Elae Paige, Template:Catn need Amanda Lear, [86][87] Prce, Helen Reddy[84] and Mylène Farmer.

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[41][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97] Several Brons were seen as gay ins, cludg sgers Boy Gee, David Bowie, Gee Michael, Morrissey, Pet Shop Boys, Kate Bh, Annie Lennox, the mol Gia Carangi, [12] the actor Alec Guns[9] and wrer Quent Crisp. Contug to the 1980s, pop mic sger Madonna—dubbed the "Queen of Pop" and "Queen of Dance" by the media, and later the "World's Most Succsful Female Rerdg Artist" by Guns World Rerds—beme the preement gay in of the late 20th century. "[108] Gdula also stated that durg this perd, ncurrent wh the rise of the AIDS epimic, "when other artists tried to distance themselv om the very dience that helped their stars to rise, Madonna only turned the light back on her gay fans and ma burn all the brighter.