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Contents:

• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• TOP 10 UNTENTNALLY GAY MOMENTS
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

The group was the first gay rights group Ameri, and s newsletter, “Friendship and Freedom, ” was the Uned Stat’ first rerd gay rights publitn. Supreme Court — and the urt led favor of gay rights for the first time, makg a major landmark se LGBTQ 21, 1966: The Mattache Society aniz a gay rights “Sip-In. ”Durg a time when most bars refed to serve gay people, the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s first gay rights anizatns, staged a “Sip-In, ” durg which activists entered a New York Cy bar, announced they were gay, orred drks, and waed to be Braerd/The Denver Post via GettyJune 28, 1969: The Stonewall rts spark the begng of the LGBT the early morng hours on June 28, 1969, police performed a raid of the Stonewall Inn, a New York Cy gay bar — and the ctomers and their supporters took a stand.

TOP 10 UNTENTNALLY GAY MOMENTS

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RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

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DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS

The phrase “gay pri” was also brand-new that year, ed by activists as a shorthand to une the events planned as part of the fledglg movement.

Gilbert Baker, who scribed himself as the “gay Betsy Ross, ” created the first pri flag om strips of fabric dyed trash ns the attic of San Francis’s Gay Communy Center before the cy’s 1978 pri para.

Acrdg to rearch fdgs, football supporters would like to see homophobia elimated, believe the FA is not dog enough to addrs the issue, and would feel at ease if a member of their team me out as gay.