Gay Bomb: Story Behd The Story | WIRED

Contents:

• IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR GETS 2ND BOMB THREAT THIS YEAR
• THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’
• D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• GAY BOMB
• GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY

IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”

The ia of a gay bomb me om a sire to bilate and distract their opponents but not necsarily kill them. Wikimedia CommonsThe gay bomb was a theoretil cloud of gas that would turn enemy soldiers gay. The ncept of a “gay bomb” sounds like somethg out of a bad science fictn movie.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

5 ln ventn: the gay bomb. The gay bomb would be a cloud of gas that would be discharged over enemy mps “that ntaed a chemil that would e enemy soldiers to bee gay, and to have their uns break down bee all their soldiers beme irristibly attractive to one another. Basilly, the pheromon the gas would turn the soldiers gay.

GAY CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR GETS 2ND BOMB THREAT THIS YEAR

The scientists ntued to suggt addns to the gay bomb, cludg aphrodisiacs, and other scents. Thankfully, the gay bomb was only ever theoretil and never put to motn. Like the gay bomb, the creative chemil ias also never me to un.

Dpe the drawbacks, for their work such an novative field, the rearchers who nceptualized the gay bomb were award the Ig Nobel Prize, a parody award which celebrat unual scientific achievements that “first make people lgh, and then make them thk. The gay bomb certaly fs the bill for that one. After readg about the theoretil gay bomb, check out the super real Bat Bomb.

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN

On Augt 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped Ltle Boy on the Japane cy of Hiroshima. The Begng or the End claimed the Amerin ary dropped warng leaflets about the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and that the Enola Gay me unr attack om Japane antiaircraft missile fire on s bombg n. Did not drop leaflets warng of the atomic bomb specifilly, though pilots may have dropped more general notic of impendg attacks on Hiroshima, and the Enola Gay did not e unr antiaircraft fire.

A gay California lawmaker revealed Tuday that he received a bomb threat laced wh homophobic trop and rhetoric, amid a simmerg culture war that has sparked wispread anti-LGBTQ threats and attacks natnwi. “The extreme homophobic and transphobic rhetoric that has lated on social media and right wg media outlets has real world impacts. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., nservative activist Charlie Kirk and "others the MAGA nspiracy theory esystem" of cg vlence, and he lled on "rponsible polil lears on the right" to ll out and stop toleratg "extreme homophobic and transphobic rhetoric.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

Kirk did not immediately rpond to a requt for latt threat agast Wiener amid wispread bigoted rhetoric, threats and attacks directed at lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people across the months, many right-wg lawmakers, media personali and activists have acced LGBTQ people of “groomg, ” “doctratg” and “sexualizg” children. The word “groomg” has long been associated wh mischaracterizg gay men as sexual abers of children.

The 1994 project that sought to weaponise fabulonsPhoto by Brett Sayl om PexelsThe US ary has a long and storied history wh homosexualy.

The earlit exampl of someone beg expelled om the ary for homosexual behavur e om Febary 1778. He was expelled om the Contental Army by orr of none other than Gee Washgton ’s no surprise to fd rampant homophobia even at the natn’s ceptn, beg gay was not actually a crime the US ary until much later than many would assume. While plenty of men were dishonourably discharged for beg gay throughout the 19th century, wouldn’t be until 1916 that ‘asslt wh the tent to m sodomy’ was listed as a crime.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

In 1920, this would be revised to any homosexual punishment for homosexual behavur was up to five years ary prison, the forfe of all pay and allowanc, and a dishonourable discharge, which n and of self lead to difficulti securg work, ary benefs, and even a WW1 homosexual acts were illegal unr martial law, but there was no outright ban on beg gay exactly. That all changed 1982 and simply beg gay the ary was illegal.

As the Department of Defence stated: ‘homosexualy was patible wh ary service’. While beg gay was no longer illegal, tellg people you were gay, aternisatn and homosexual behavur would all get you dishonourably discharged.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

1994 & Weaponisg FabulonsDon’t Ask Don’t Tell — Milary guidance posterDurg shortag of personnel, pecially WW2, the US ary would relax s screeng procs, allowg gay people back to ary service, but only for a time.

A gay former manager for the D. -based AARP Servic, Inc., an arm of the AARP that teracts wh bs supportive of the natn’s senrs, filed a ltle-noticed lawsu May 2018 chargg AARP Servic wh firg him bee he’s gay and married to a man. The lawsu says AARP allegedly fired at least one other gay employee, who also filed su and an out-of-urt settlement was reached.

THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB

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MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

For 22 years and was discrimatorily fired by an anizatn that stat they are gay iendly, Rick believ that his story should be heard, ” Chambers said. And th the "gay bomb" was born. "One distasteful but non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavur, " says the proposal om the Air Force's Wright Laboratory Dayton, Pentagon did not ny that the proposal had been ma: "The partment of fence is mted to intifyg, rearchg and velopg non-lethal weapons that will support our men and women uniform.

"Aaron Belk, director of the Universy of California's Michael Palm Centre, which studi the issue of gays the ary, said: "The ia that you uld subm someone to some aerosol spray and change their sexual behavur is ludicro. The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U.

When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.

GAY BOMB

After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. The Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortrs, which pilot Pl Tibbets named after his mother, and which had been stripped of everythg but the necsi, so as to be thoands of pounds lighter than an ordary plane of that make. While did not drop the bomb on Nagasaki, the Enola Gay did take flight to get data on the weather the lead-up to the send strike on Japan.

GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY

In the aftermath of World War II, the Army Air Forc flew the Enola Gay durg an atomic tt program the Pacific; was then livered to be stored an airfield Arizona before beg flown to Illois and transferred to the Smhsonian July 1949. But even unr the ctody of the mm, the Enola Gay remaed at an air force base Texas.

The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott.

Adams, who is leavg his job after 10 relatively ntroversy-ee years, sent back a three-page answer stiffly turng down her requt for the Enola Gay. Demonstrators prott at the Enola Gay exhib at the the Smhsonian Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F.