From the first pro-gay film to the trailblazg lears who worked to make the world a better place for queer people, the are the famo LGBTQ firsts.
Contents:
- MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
Democratic Atty. Gen. Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay ndidate elected to the office. * first gay woman *
Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay ndidate elected to the feated Republin Geoff Diehl, a former state reprentative who had the endorsement of former Print Tmp.
Healey and Democrat Ta Kotek, a ndidate for ernor Oregon, each began the day wh a chance to bee the first openly lbian person elected ernor of a — elected eight years ago as the natn’s first openly gay attorney general — snapped what’s bee known Massachetts as the “curse of the attorney general. The rts—which took place after a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy—served as a talyst for the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and across the globe.
To honor that, we've round up some of the most historic firsts om the LGBTQ muny, om the first pro-gay film to the first state to repeal sodomy laws. Der Eigene (The Own), which was published om 1896 to 1932 by Adolf Brand om Berl, Germany, is nsired the first gay journal the world, acrdg to Out magaze.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
* first gay woman *
Throughout the perdil's nearly 40 years of publitn, vered topics like homosexualy and bisexualy a number of lerary and artistic ways, cludg poetry, prose, polil manifto, and nu photography. One of the mtee's first iativ was a petn to repeal Paragraph 175, an anti-gay piece of legislatn Germany's Imperial Penal Co, which crimalized sexual acts between men.
It was the first gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat. Eisenhower that banned gay people om attag jobs ernment offic (1953). And then, of urse, there were the sodomy laws that had been place each state for s, which ma engagg homosexual acts a crimal offense.
In 1961, Illois beme the first state to repeal those sodomy laws and crimalize homosexual ntact between nsentg adults, acrdg to the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn. Five months after the rts, activists Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Ellen Brody, and Lda Rhos ma a proposn at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns that there be an annual march New York Cy to memorate the event on the last Saturday of every June, acrdg to Back then, was lled the Christopher Street Liberatn Day, although the march was a precursor to what would later bee the NYC Pri March that still tak place today.