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Contents:

• WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
• INSI THE WORLD OF PETER BERL, GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOGRAPHER AND GAY IN
• QUEEN OF THE UNRDOGS: 5 REASONS PK IS AN UNRAPPRECIATED GAY IN
• HOW DID A THIRD-CENTURY CATHOLIC SAT BEE A GAY IN? HERE’S THE HOMOEROTIC HISTORY OF SAT SEBASTIAN
• SAT SEBASTIAN AS A GAY IN
• WHAT MAK JUDY GARLAND A GAY IN? EXPERTS EXPLA WHAT SHE AND OTHERS, OM DIANA ROSS TO MADONNA, HAVE MON

WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

Wh same-sex marriage now legal all parts of the UK, n sometime be easy to fet how different attus to homosexualy were the past, and how much change has taken place over the past 50 years. For hundreds of years gay people have stggled to be accepted and treated the same as people who are not fact wasn't until 1967, that two men were able to be a relatnship together whout the fear of beg stands for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr.

Sometim appears wh Q, meang queer and +, which is an clive symbol to mean 'and others' to clu people of all history month tak place Febary each year, to help te people on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr history, as well as the history of the gay and civil rights out more about some of those who have ma an impact both om the past and prent. Alan TurgAlan Turg was not a well known figure durg his lifetime, but today he is famo and celebrated for the ccial part he played the victory over Nazi Germany was a mathematician who cracked somethg lled the Enigma , which is thought to have shortened the war by several was also a victim of mid-20th Century attus to homosexualy and 1952 was arrted bee beg homosexual was illegal Bra at this 2013 he was pardoned for this 'crime', and 2017 the ernment agreed to officially pardon men acced of 'crim' like this, meang they will no longer have a crimal pardong has e to be known as the Alan Turg 2019 Turg was named the most "inic" figure of the 20th Century and his face now appears on the £50 note.

Osr WilImage source, Napoleon Sarony/Universal History ArchiveOsr Wil is one of the famo playwrights of all time, fact, you might even have studied 'The Importance of Beg Earnt' - one of his most famo plays - at was married to a woman and had two sons, but was later acced of beg homosexual. Johnson was an Ain Amerin transgenr-rights activist, whose work the 1960s and 1970s had a huge impact on the LGBT this time, beg gay was classified as a mental illns the Uned Stat.

INSI THE WORLD OF PETER BERL, GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOGRAPHER AND GAY IN

Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police, and were shunned by many June 1969, when Marsha was 23 years old, police raid a gay bar New York lled The Stonewall Inn. Later the North Wt Commtee was transformed to the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE), which was the largt LGBT anisatn there has ever been the UK, wh more than 5, 000 members and 120 lol groups all over the untry when was at s 's role the removal of the stigma of crimaly om homosexualy remaed his crowng achievement. He began his reer as a journalist before workg for MI6, and beg prcipal of Aberystwyth was asked to jo the ernment's mtee lookg to homosexual offenc which led to the Wolfenn Report, which remend that havg a homosexual relatnship should no longer be a crimal laid the foundatns for a later law which partially crimalised male homosexualy for the first time England and Wal.

Gilbert Baker was an Amerin artist, gay rights activist who signed the flag to have eight strip stead of the six normally seen first ma an appearance back 1978 and has bee associated wh LGBT rights all over the world.

Chris SmhImage source, Getty ImagIn 1984 Chris Smh beme the UK's first male openly gay MP and later, the first gay bet announcg that he was gay, he received a five-mute standg ovatn.

QUEEN OF THE UNRDOGS: 5 REASONS PK IS AN UNRAPPRECIATED GAY IN

There have sce been lots of other gay bet are currently 54 LGBT MPs the Hoe of Commons, and 2015 was clared the gayt parliament the world due to s proportn of LGBT members. Jt FashanuImage source, Getty ImagJt Fashanu was Bra's first openly gay footballer, and although 30 years have passed he remas the only male footballer to reveal his sexualy while playg profsnally the top reer was gog well, havg risen through Norwich Cy's youth ranks and 1981 he beme the untry's most expensive black player wh his £1m move to Nottgham stunned the football world 1990 by when he told a newspaper he was gay. But after this he didn't receive much support and suffered homophobic bullyg, as well as harassment om the tabloid died 1998 and was ducted to the Natnal Football Mm's Hall of Fame Feb 2020, wh his niece Amal Fashanu llg him "one of the bravt men I've ever e across".

In 2019 he received France's hight civilian award, the Legn d'honnr, by Print Emmanuel Macron, who lled him one of the first gay artists to give a voice to the LGBT me out as bisexual a 1976 terview wh mic magaze Rollg Stone, and 1992 said he was and his partner David Furnish were among the first upl the UK to get a civil partnership 2005, when the law was changed to allow gay relatnships to be legally 2014, after gay marriage beme legal the UK the pair got married and have two sons born via on this story. Ricky Mart — who announced he was a “proud homosexual” 2010 after years of speculatn, cludg an famo terview wh Barbara Walters that Mart recently said still hnts him — ro a wave of succs driven largely by a loyal female fanbase eager to watch him shake is “bon-bon.

HOW DID A THIRD-CENTURY CATHOLIC SAT BEE A GAY IN? HERE’S THE HOMOEROTIC HISTORY OF SAT SEBASTIAN

Puttg asi the song’s associatn of love wh a “crime” beg juxtaposed wh a lyric like “Greet me wh the ey of a child, ” “Father Figure” se Michael stg himself the role of a proxy parent, an trigug but perhaps predictable velopment given the prevalence of “daddy” culture the gay muny. Sivan, who’s 26, has said he uldn’t relate to Michael growg up, and the unapologetic, joyo portras of queer sire that he and Lil Nas X nvey their mic feel far removed om the srce, thly veiled songs about the gay experience that existed around the time they were born.

Michael’s long-awaed third album, 1996’s Olr — the release of which cid wh my own sexual awakeng at the height of the AIDS epimic — rerced the myopic visn of gay life as one of danger, sadns, and misery that my generatn was tght school and by the media. Openly gay sger Adam Lambert has lled g out “an act of fiance, ” and while Michael was given ltle choice the timg and manner of his own, he was far om ntre the mic vio for “Outsi, ” released jt a few months later to promote his first greatt hs album. After g out, Michael stantly beme a gay in, but he was a reluctant one, tormented by the ath of his first love and stgglg to rencile the fact that the massive succs he’d achieved was staed by pretendg to be someone else.

When Madonna ed her posn as the biggt pop star on the pla to explore darker them of the sexualy that lks all, was as brave a move as a new act allowg themselv to be marketed as the world’s first “out” rock star the early 70s, when “gay liberatn” had barely got gog.

SAT SEBASTIAN AS A GAY IN

His homoerotic 1972 Top Of The Pops performance of “Starman” wh Mick Ronson set youngsters’ puls racg and their parents’ blood prsure risg, but helped cement Bowie’s superstar stat the UK, wh the rt of the world tchg up not long after. Her 1961 double-album, Judy At Carnegie Hall (later performed live s entirety by Ruf Wawright), bagged a Grammy and beme the five highlight of her illtr reer, which was cut short by her early ath 1969 – an event that, ’s said, helped spark the Stonewall Rts New York and marked the begng of the morn gay-rights movement.

WHAT MAK JUDY GARLAND A GAY IN? EXPERTS EXPLA WHAT SHE AND OTHERS, OM DIANA ROSS TO MADONNA, HAVE MON

Maybe was the famo Bob Mackie ocks on her US televisn spectaculars, but gay men saw somethg special om the start pop’s perennial survivor, who left a troubled marriage yet a succsful bs partnership wh Sonny to fe a huge solo reer. A famo statement, released at the lnch of his 2013 tobgraphy, ma clear he was “humasexual, ” not homosexual, spe the revelatn he’d been a relatnship wh photographer Jake Owen Walters. Overwhelmed by the ill-advised marketg tsunami that characterized his 1973 self-tled but, the openly gay rock sger tapped to the -vogue glam scene to a largely different public rponse.

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. Billboard charts 2014 wh their h sgle “Stay wh Me” and has been a hoehold name ever sce, g out as gay to the public quickly after the album release of “The Lonely Hour” an terview wh Far. 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.