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Contents:

• LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
• HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?
• WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS
• THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH

Hi NewBoy, wele to our fom and thanks for postg sounds as if you enjoyed your first gay sexual enunter! Your qutn, "Why did I never realise that beg gay n be such a wonrful experience?

I firmly believe that the two most important nstcts of homo-prejudice and homophobia are 1) analphobia and 2) the paternalistic ncept of men beg perative and not beg perated. Society generally associat gay men wh anal sex - even though not all gay men engage this form of sexual exprsn - and th se gay men as unrmg the llective domant male psyche. This of urse adds to the crisis of g out, that young gay men have to pe wh the nflict of beg "lser" men bee of the associatn of beg sexually perated.

I had my first gay experience wh my child hood bt iend that lived down the road om me I thk we were about 8 or 9 years old. As the only out young gay kid at my school, I took the advancement of my sexual experienc to my own hands and I did what we all do: I bought a fake ID and h the gay clubs. While I knew wouldn’t be like a gay llege eroti I’d read on (gay non, really), I rather naively wasn’t expectg the fall out.

HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?

I realize I fell to that old gay adage of placg my feelgs on a person who, for whatever reason, was never gog to vt them back me.

WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS

Worst of all, though, the shame attached to the memori of those first tim marred how I would approach sex for years.It was listeng to Years & Years’ new song “Sanctify,” and seeg the band’s out gay sger Olly Alexanr talk about how the song was spired his sexual trysts wh straight men, that I realized that the feelgs are way more mon than people let on. Sure, I know all about gay guys havg sex wh straight guys, but felt reassurg to see him scribe the “sat and sner role” he embodied durg those experienc, and to hear the uncertaty and melancholy weaved to the song.More than anythg though, was the repeated lyril mantra of “I won’t be ashamed.” Bee as queer people, we’re buried lifetime’s worth of shame so vivid and searg that oftentim ’s cripplg. I (male) had my first gay experience when I was around 12 years old.

I never associated what we did wh the ia of ‘gay’. Homosexualy at that age.

THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?

Now, as an adult, I primarily intify as gay, and I feel strongly that havg those experienc durg my formative years helped shape my sexual inty. Still, as an adult, whenever I've brought this up wh my straight (and generally gay-iendly) buddi, they whout exceptn ny ever havg had siar experienc. Gay Erotic Stori.

Like you might well be bisexual or gay. If the only gay timacy I ever had was a group like this, or what you experienced, I uld fortably say I was pretty straight. Whout some sort of bond gay sex, or any sex, n be pretty mechanil.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

He als mostly wh issu the gay muny. Gay.

Some of them probably are a ltle bisexual, but I know two particular who seem 100% straight every jt enjoy the nvenience of gay sex sometim. When he download a gay app though, sudnly there were 20 dus a day throwg themselv at him and beggg him to pick them. So when you are sayg "foc on the more submissive aspects of " and referencg the prev post where someone suggted this was more about beg submissive than about beg gay, n you elaborate on that?

Typil gay sna scene right?

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

And then my iend did the bt thg ever, he jt looked over and said, “Wa, are you all gay? It was hilar, and really broke the super tense gay sexual tensn. Not so typil gay sna scene anymore.

Many say they knew they were gay their whole liv, not my se. If somebody would tell me I was gay before that day, I would have given them a middle fger.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

I was a b shocked at first bee even though I have never been homophobic. A look back at a major turng pot the stggle for gay rights.

Every Fourth of July begng 1965, the Remr march—named after the need to "remd" the public of the opprsn faced by the gay muny—aimed to secure acceptance by showg how unthreateng LGBT people were to the rt of society. One year later, 1970, activists like Brenda Howard brastormed an alternative set of march that would embrace the new ethos of gay liberatn. ” The march would also be natnal spe— a forhadowg of Pri celebratns today, they wanted "a natnwi show of support" for gay rights.

A ntgent at the first Christopher Street Liberatn Day New York clutch a sign that reads "Gay Liberatn, " 1970. View of the large crowd, some of whom are holdg up handma signs and banners, participatg a gay and lbian pri para the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, 1970.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

An LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971.

A uple at an LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971. One ntgent at the 1971 Christopher Street Liberatn Day was the Gay Activists Alliance, one of a nstellatn of gay liberatn groups that formed after the Stonewall Rts.

Gay and lbian parents march alongsi a "Parents of Gays" group, an early rnatn of the group FLAG, 1973. Gay Rights,. The first gay pri march took place New York Cy on June 28, 1970 — the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall holdg Christopher Street Liberatn Day banner, Davi / New York Public LibraryOct.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Each week’s feature will clu imag om the New York Public Library’s LGBTQ week, we look back at the untry’s first gay pri march — held New York Cy on June 28, 1970, the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts — and what led up to that historic Saturday morng on June 28, 1969, police staged a raid at the Stonewall Inn, a mafia-n gay bar New York Cy's Greenwich Village neighborhood. The ps barrid themselv to the bar, and then the gay mob outsi the bar began to throw bricks and rocks toward the door and tried to break through the board up Stonewall Inn, September 1969.

The sign the wdow reads: “WE HOMOSEXUALS PLEAD WITH OUR PEOPLE TO PLEASE HELP MAINTAIN PEACEFUL AND QUIET CONDUCT ON THE STREETS OF THE VILLAGE — MATTACHINE” Diana Davi / New York Public LibraryJt a few days after the Stonewall Rts, gay activist Frank Kameny load up a b wh fellow activists and head down to Philalphia for the fifth “annual remr” picket prott outsi Inpennce Hall. Acrdg to historian and thor Lillian Farman, the picket protts were “staid” and reflected Kameny’s sire for gay tegratn to society and the workforce. Mart Luther Kg, Jr., and massive protts agast the Vietnam war, young gay activists mand faster and more radil change.