Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
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- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- ISRAEL PRIZE WNER: GAY PEOPLE ARE ‘DISABLED’
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
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Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. On November 14, 1975, more than 10 years before homosexualy beme legal the State of Israel, a small ad appeared the personal ad sectn of The Jesalem Post readg, “If you are terted chanigg (sic) the legal stat of Homosexuals, Israel, ntact: S. The associatn was found durg a meetg of gay men and one woman, cludg new immigrants and Holot survivors, 1975 Tel Aviv.
“I didn’t thk, or I wasn’t willg to adm to myself, that I was gay, but the wordg of the ad was okay for me bee said if you want to ‘help’ homosexuals, so for me was like helpg ‘them’ and not myself, ” said Danilowz. “Everybody was aaid of beg gay or rather didn’t want to be known as gay. The Agudah’s origal name did not have the word ‘homosexual’ or ‘gay’ or anythg siar to that bee most of would not have bee members of an anizatn that had a ighteng name.
”UNTIL 1988 homosexualy was illegal Israel. While the law was never enforced due to a cisn by the attorney-general, gay men and women were ocsnally harassed by police and few were willg to be publicly out of the there were some native Israelis among the first LGBTQ+ activists Israel, most of the more active and public activists and lears who formed the Agudah and other iativ were new immigrants who, a pre-Inter era didn’t have to worry about beg outed to their fai or muni back the Diaspora. Yanovich strsed that the tablishment of the Agudah me six years after the Stonewall Rts New York largely lnched the Pri movement the US and two years after the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn removed homosexualy om a manual on mental disorrs.
ISRAEL PRIZE WNER: GAY PEOPLE ARE ‘DISABLED’
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Whereas all untri homosexualy was looked down upon, was particularly looked down up here by the relig thori, ” said Danilowz. “Israelis were petrified of beg gay.
Nice Jewish boys were not gay. In 1976, a number of homosexual Israelis were terviewed on a show lled The Third Hour, but only Avi Angel, an immigrant om the US who served then as the executive-director of the Agudah, agreed to be terviewed wh his real name and whout his voice beg first the Agudah was mostly a social anizatn, alg ltle wh activism. It held lectur and workshops on LGBTQ+ topics and anized parti and social events for the gay the 1970s, Danilowz worked for El Al.
While travelg, he vised Congregatn Be Simchat Torah, a gay synagogue New York. It was a ighteng experience for me to go, but I found was a great experience to meet normal gay people. ”While the US, Danilowz heard about an ternatnal nference of gay Jewish anizatns which was held ci around the world but not Israel, so he persuad the anizatns to hold the 1979 nference Israel.