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Contents:
- CONFERATE AND UNN: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
- THE HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS, ALISON BECHL THE ‘NEW YORKER’, AND MORE LGBT NEWS
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
- AMERI'S GAY CONFERATE AND UNN SOLDIERS
CONFERATE AND UNN: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
As "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to an end, we sent Chris Heath to terview dozens of gay servicemen om the past and prent to fd out what life was really like as Ameri's ary stggled wh s last great inty crisis * gay civil war soldier *
C., signalg the war’s begng, s gay Conferate and Unn soldiers didn’t have to worry about the morn famo DADT policy, which blatantly discrimated agast gay, lbian and bisexual servicemembers. ” And “un hn, ” the big battleground issue durg the fight to repeal DADT which posed that the “homosexual gaze” would be the root e for disptn (which was totally bunked by a 2002 study), was not an issue. But the qutn, some would argue, of who were LGBTQ service members and who weren’t the Amerin Civil War is a disgenuo query sce the words “homosexual” and “heterosexual” weren’t part of the Amerin lexin until thirty years after the war end.
However, many would also argue that not havg a word like “homosexual” back the day of the Civil War to pict same-sex attractn among soldiers do not negate our e of to scribe them this prent day. Usg archival documents such as urt-martial and medil rerds, newspaper articl, pornographic books and rds, and letters and diari of the soldiers, Lowry’s foc was to addrs the problem of prostutn – straight and gay – and why both the Unn and Conferate Armi had to work to stop sexually transmted fectns om cripplg their soldiers, bee STIs were stg more soldier’s health and liv than actn on the battlefield.
THE HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS, ALISON BECHL THE ‘NEW YORKER’, AND MORE LGBT NEWS
The Greeks favored gay and bisexual young men their ary.
Sce gay and bisexual men were nsired a fay un, the Greeks knew that paired male lovers assigned to the same battalns were a ary asset. Historian Jonathan Katz has intified the great divi of the homosexual-heterosexual hypothis as a product of the closg s of the neteenth century.
Put simply, the words homosexual, bisexual, gay, and queer were not available to Civil War soldiers to scribe their eros. Unn and Conferate soldiers did not thk of a sexual world habed by straight and gay men, bee that way of orrg the world had not yet been nstcted.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
To label Alphons Richter as gay or bisexual miss the plexy and queerns of his actual relatnships. In a time before the ventn of homosexualy as a ncept, Richter and Becker uld celebrate both their manls as soldiers and their timacy to fay and iends. homosexual-heterosexual hypothis, most neteenth century sexuali are.
"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
f to the current world of the homosexual-heterosexual hypothis. Men Before Homosexualy, (Chigo, IL: Universy of Chigo Prs, 2001). I was exced when Roanne Gay was announced to be the first black women to wre for Marvel and I am even more exced now that those stori are g out:.
“I’m focg on black women and the two lead characters are a relatnship, ” Gay told HuffPost. Wrer Michael Albo asks the ever important qutn: Did the Inter Make Datg Worse for Gay People? The are the voic explag what has been like to be a gay man1 the Amerin ary over the prev seventy or so years, om World War II veterans their late eighti to young servicemen on active duty.
AMERI'S GAY CONFERATE AND UNN SOLDIERS
Life Today as a Gay ServicemanHow we got here: In 1992, many people thought that the discrimatn was nearly over.
"I remember beg the Castro, " says John Forrett (army rerve, 1987–99), "and watchg the TV at a bar wh some iends, watchg Al Gore and Bill Clton swearg that if they beme the tag team for Ameri they were gog to get rid of the harassment of gays and lbians servg the ary. " Gay people were allowed the ary but only as long as they didn’t reveal their sexualy; to facilate this, all members of the ary were also prohibed om quirg about anyone’s possible orientatn.
Gay people were only acceptable, effect, to the gree to which they uld succsfully masquera as nongay.