Contents:
- FEBRUARY IS LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH, AN ANNUAL CELEBRATN OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS & NON-BARY HISTORY.
- MAYA ANGELOU REMEMBERED AS A GAY ALLY
FEBRUARY IS LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH, AN ANNUAL CELEBRATN OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS & NON-BARY HISTORY.
FEBRUARY is LGBT+ History Month, an annual celebratn of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans & non-bary history. In the UK is celebrated Febary each year, to ci wh the 2003 aboln of Sectn 28, a law passed 1988 by the UK ernment that stopped uncils and schools: ‘promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship.
MAYA ANGELOU REMEMBERED AS A GAY ALLY
Given the importance of the Black Liv Matter movement seems appropriate to feature a wrer who has clearly alt wh and challenged both racism and homophobia. "I am gay, " Maya Angelou told a gatherg of an timated 4, 000 predomantly LGBT people celebratg gay and lbian chos at the GALA Ftival Tampa, Fla., 1996.
The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,. In her poem, On The Pulse Of Morng, at the 1993 guratn of Print Bill Clton, Angelou mentned “The Gay, the Straight” as both “yearng to rpond to the sgg River and the wise Rock. ” – Tammy Baldw, first openly gay Senator the Uned Stat.
“I’ve found more tolerance, acceptance and cln om social nservative groups who have to rencile that I’m a Republin who happens to be gay…vers the tolerance the LGBT lears see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republin. Jason Colls, First male profsnal athlete to publicly intify himself as gay (Image source: Flickr: Jason Colls).