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• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• COMG OUT, DISTRS AND INTY THREAT GAY MEN THE UK

JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990

It has been created by allsorts youth project, and anisatn that listens to, nnects & supports children & young people unr 26 who are lbian, gay, bisexual, trans or explorg their sexual orientatn and/or genr inty (LGBT+).

Getty ImagThe actor, who is bt known for playg Will Byers Netflix's credibly popular sci-fi thriller seri Stranger Thgs, publicly me out as gay a January the viral 'You know what never was? That ser' d on the popular app, Schnapp ptned the post: "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know. 100 percent, yeah, " the DJ and producer said, though he noted he wasn't aroed much by asked by Ratajkowski about how he intifi wh the sexualy spectm, Diplo then answered:"I thk the bt answer I have is I’m not not gay.

COMG OUT, DISTRS AND INTY THREAT GAY MEN THE UK

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I wanted to be known for my skills and what I’ve dited the last 11 years of my life to not and not the 'bi UFC fighter' that I’m sure would jt be translated to 'gay UFC fighter. Comg Out is the term ed by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT+) people to scribe their experience of disvery, self-acceptance, openns and honty about their LGBT inty and their cisn to disclose, i. Beg hont about who you are and not feelg the need to hi behd a secret inty is to many people a huge weight lifted off their be easier to meet other people wh siar feelgs and over time n have a posive effect on all aspects of your life, when you are happier and feel that you n be accepted for who you really the cisn to e out as a lbian, gay, bi or trans person n make thk about our own personal journeys and how we n help and rm others to take the first steps to acknowledgg such an important part of our you have e out to one person the procs do not end there, throughout your life you will fd yourself suatns and around people where you feel the need or sire to disclose your sexual orientatn or trans stat.

There are lbian, gay, bisexual and trans support anisatns across the world who are there to offer a helpg hand, a iendly ear, and who have vast experience of helpg people jt like prospect of g out n be a sry one for many, and 's important to remember that nobody n dictate your g out apart om yourself. In my 2020 book“Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are, ”, I explore the history of this term, om the earlit days of the gay rights movement, to today, when has been adopted by other movements. The Mattache Society, the earlit important anizatn of what was known as the homophile movement – a precursor of the gay rights movement – took s name om myster medieval figur masks.

At the first Gay Liberatn March New York Cy June 1970, one of the anizers stated that “we’ll never have the eedom and civil rights we serve as human begs unls we stop hidg closets and the shelter of anonymy.

By the end of the 1960s, queer people who pretend to be heterosexual were said to be “ the closet” or labeled a “closet se” or, the se of gay men, “closet queens. For stance, 1978, his mpaign to feat a California iative that would have banned gay teachers om workg state public schools, openly gay elected ernment official Harvey Milk urged people to “Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are.

Milk gambled that if queer people told their iends they were gay, Californians would realize that they had iends, workers and fay members who were gay and – out of solidary – would oppose the proposn. As ttimony of this shift, today, marriage equaly is the law of the land, the popular TV edy “Morn Fay” featur a gay uple and one of the leadg ndidat for the Democratic printial ticket, Pete Buttigieg, is a gay man.