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• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• FIRST NGRSNAL RACE BETWEEN TWO GAY NOME MARKS PROGRS FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT
• AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL
• BEG OUT: ELE GAY NNER DAVID MELLY PROUD OF HIS ‘WEIRDNS’
• A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
• WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N
• ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

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

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.

He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

FIRST NGRSNAL RACE BETWEEN TWO GAY NOME MARKS PROGRS FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT

“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. 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. "I didn't want to adm to my folks I didn't have a date for a dance, ” he 68, Zimmerman is an openly gay man who has experienced firsthand a changg social climate both his neighborhood and natnally.

And he's helpg lead further progrs, as the Democratic nomee  the first ngrsnal race between two openly gay Nov.

AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL

“Growg up as a closeted gay kid the '70s, I never dreamed we'd have a member of the LGBTQ+ muny reprentg Long Island and Queens, ” Zimmerman said.

”If Santos tak the seat, he will be a mory of gay Republin Hoe members.

Of the 11 openly LGBTQ reprentativ servg the Hoe and Senate, all are said Santos reprents growg variety wh the Republin Party, as well as the LGBTQ muny, 14% of which voted for Tmp the 2020 electn, acrdg to a poll by the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn.

BEG OUT: ELE GAY NNER DAVID MELLY PROUD OF HIS ‘WEIRDNS’

The bill is often referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” law by opponents like Zimmerman.

"I'm a gay married man, ” Santos said. “I am openly gay, have never had an issue wh my sexual inty the past , and I n tell you and assure you, I will always be an advote for LGBTQ folks. Every norm everywhere all at as a gay man, I celebrate an nvenient tth of Pri Month: We’ll never be normal.

That majory asi, when we discs self-intifyg gay men, lbians, asexuals, pansexuals, two-spir, nonbary and transgenr folks, ’s jt roughly 3 percent of the populatn. Heterosexuals make up a greater percentage of the untry than whe people do on the Supreme ask everyday Amerins to gus at jt the gay and lbian populatn, and Gallup shows they nsistently overtimate.

A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.

A majory of the untry thks that at least 20 percent of Amerins — at least one five of — are gay or lbian.

Every remr of my different path ma me yearn for a fettable broar, blanr mastream sir thenticy foreign cuise or subtled foreign streamg shows, but mands sad homogenizatn of the forever foreign nature of queerns. And I realized how different is to be gay , say, Havana or the Bronx. Beg normal is a lie people tell themselv to ver up the realy that they are merely how few number we are, ’s a lerally unpopular thg to say but I am gay.

Alone as an openly gay athlete when he joed the cross untry and track and field teams 2011, Melly was pleased that his senr season three of the five top nners intified as LGBT.

WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N

Teams wh gay athlet also have a funny tenncy to be more acceptg across the board.

ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT

It eaked me out a b at first when I started gettg msag om other gay athlet, often younger kids and teens, who found me and felt my story ronated wh them. As recently as five or six years ago, I uld name a sgle openly gay nner outsi my own team. There’s a gay man nng for Print of the Uned Stat.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

So rapper Tom MacDonald thought would a great time to release his latt sgle “Straight Whe Male, ” a #NotAllMen hip hop anthem about how he’s sick of beg lled a racist, sexist homophobe when he swears he’s anythg but.

Gay rights thk I’m tryna stop ’em (Woo). Other lyrics clu l like “Hontly I thk that everyone looks alike/If they aren’t whe then I’m sorry, ’s te” and “Y’all blame me for wag we’re pay’ the women/Y’all blame me for rights that gay people aren’t given.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Mondaire Jon and Rchie Torr, nng separate New York districts, stand to bee the first openly gay Ain-Amerins eher hoe of Congrs. Torr would also be the first gay Ao-Latx California, lbian Geette Gomez is nng to bee the first LGBTQ+ Lata Congrs. Several other stat have a chance to elect their first LGBTQ+ reprentativ: Indiana, Pat Hackett, a lbian; Michigan, Jon Hoadley, a gay man; Washgton State, Beth Dogl, a bisexual woman.