Steve Bull once raced agast time to try to save the memoirs of one of Mae's gay rights pneers. His trip led him down memory lane.
Contents:
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- TAG: GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE
- ADIDAS' NEW CONTRACT CLSE PREVENTS GAY ATHLET FROM LOSG THEIR SPONSORSHIPS
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
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The astal sailg legend and Mae gay rights pneer died six months earlier the fall of 2012. Bull and Hasks helped found the groundbreakg stunt group at the Universy of Mae 1973 — then held the first Mae Gay Symposium 1974, which jump-started Mae’s LGBTQ+ rights stggle, lnchg much further ahead toward jtice than most other stat.
They are also anizg a 50th anniversary Mae Gay Symposium Orono and Portland this fall.
They named Wil Ste after the famo gay and lbian wrers Osr Wil and Gert Ste. The club was part of the first wave of gay and lbian stunt groups tryg to w official regnn om llege admistrators. “Homosexuals nnot reproduce, therefore they mt rec.
JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
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. * gay worker *
A photographic ntact sheet showg Steven Bull speakg at the first gay symposium put on by the Wild Ste Club at the Universy pf Mae 1974, is part of Bull’s papers hoed the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversy’s LGBTQ+ llectn at the Universy of Southern Mae. One of the qutns was, “Do you have any homosexual tennci? A week before the Universy of Mae board of tste was to ci Wil Ste’s fate January 1974, the club issued a prs release about s tentn to hold the first Mae Gay Symposium April.
That same week, gay and lbian stunts New Hampshire won their right to anize feral urt. The symposium featured anizg meetgs, discsn panels and speakers, cludg Morty Manford of New York Cy’s Gay Activists Alliance. Manford was famo for publicly gog toe-to-toe wh the cy’s mayor orr to get the police off the gay muny’s back.
TAG: GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE
Gerald Talbot to troduce a gay rights plank the state Democratic Party platform. The move passed — makg Mae the send state to pass such a party plank — spe a BDN edorial equatg gays and lbians wh felons, dg ers and draft dodgers.
“We secured a wrten mment om the head of the Mae Teachers Associatn that they would fend any teacher gone after solely for their homosexualy, ” Bull said. Bull is helpg to anize a gay rights symposium the fall, 50 years after he helped anize Mae’s first. -based profsnal league to e out as gay.
Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.
ADIDAS' NEW CONTRACT CLSE PREVENTS GAY ATHLET FROM LOSG THEIR SPONSORSHIPS
The plats Jamion reviewed clud a rwash, a nnabis dispensary, a nvassg agency that sends people out to fundraise for nonprofs, and dancers at a gay club.
A Christian social worker who is takg legal actn after havg a job offer whdrawn bee he refed to "embrace and promote" homosexualy says 's imperative for other Christians to "stand up" for their beliefs, or they will face creased hostily the workplace. He felt "very sad" upon fdg his Christian beliefs unr attack after movg to the Uned Kgdom years ago and pursug a reer social 2019, Ngole won a landmark ee speech se agast his universy, after they kicked him out of a social work program bee he had quoted the Bible ments about homosexualy on his Facebook acunt.