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Contents:
- NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY
- US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
- WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
Adm. Michael Gilday told Sen. Tommy Tuberville he's glad to have Lt. JG Audrey Knutson, the grandchild of a gay service member, the Navy. * navy gay officers *
Article 125 often applied discharge proceedgs of gay service members. Department of Defense Directive 1332.14 tablish a policy of mandatory discharge for service members who attempt to engage a homosexual act.
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TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
* navy gay officers *
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THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY
They are close, and necsarily so, sce a gay marriage — not to mentn gay parentg — is viewed wh ep spicn and outright hostily perhaps the most anti-gay state the Jon and Whe attend Ethan’s baseball gam, they say, ach and other parents barely speak to them. When he was high school, his mother, a vout Christian, overheard his phone nversatn wh a gay next day, Jon says, his parents nonted him.
US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
He asked his son, “Brett, are you a homosexual?
WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
“My mom told me homosexuals go straight to hell, ” Jon says. He had served for six years and two ployments on mandg, secretive missns when his homosexualy was was the “don’t ask, don’t tell” era.
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
He was terrogated by a ary lawyer who mand he nfs to beg gay. They gossiped about him, ridiculg gays and sayg a homosexual SEAL would stroy un Navy dropped s vtigatn after Jon enlisted a natnal group that advot for gays the ary, and after members of Congrs tervened.
Last December, they drove to Indiana to be married by a urt, 37, had lived his own secret, tormented life growg up Athens, where gays were ridiculed and monized. His father cracked jok about homos and day Whe cid to e out, he says, “I told my dad and he stood up and I was bracg for a punch.