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Related: Ellen talks wh the first gay Navy Spoe of the Year. Steve Clark Hall, a gay graduate om the class of 1975, said he knew gay classmat who were kicked out of the Amy and uld not return home to the fai who disowned them. “If you were gay [back then], was the worst, most spible, disgtg thg, ” Hall said of society’s views at the time.
Steffan was forced to rign April 1987 — two months before his graduatn — after Amy officials learned he was gay.
Acrdg to a 1989 story the Philalphia Gay News, he said his father did not immediately accept his sexualy.
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“It is obv to me that the real problem is not homosexualy, but rather, the ary’s open and officially supported prejudice agast homosexuals who have the sire and pabily to serve their untry. Not long after Steffan’s dismissal om the Amy, a new era began for gay servicepeople.
“It was OK to be gay as long as you didn’t say, ‘I am gay, ’” he said of the mentaly at the time. “So all of a sudn, was OK to be gay as long as you didn’t tell about .
While this was seen as progrs at the time, Hall poted out how part of Clton’s platform was to allow gays, lbians, and bisexuals to openly serve the ary.
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“When Clton promised you uld be openly gay, I was planng on beg openly gay [while servg], ” he said. This rulted former midshipmen and ts foundg the Service Amy Gay & Lbian Alumni (SAGALA) work 1991. The GLBT Historil Society San Francis opened a “Gays the Milary” exhib, which featured several USNA Out members on display.
I felt like I wasn’t alone and I unrstood that there were other gay people out there. “Now I unrstand that the numbers are higher for suici wh the ary, but beg gay and the ary fely would spike those numbers even higher. Ortiz anized a private dner for a closely guard gut list of about two dozen gay midshipmen and alumni.
We are the associatn of proud Uned Stat Naval Amy Alumni who are gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr joed by our supporters and iends. (Nati Harnik / AP)Edor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall groups have always been about a simple, key objective: Stop all the groups are GSAs—Genr-Sexualy Allianc, though they were origally known as Gay-Straight Allianc—and that was their missn when they first rose to promence the late 1980s. Perhaps, the theory was, jt by existg, the groups uld make gay kids feel ls alone, and that self uld rce suici risk, which was mon among gay teens at the Lipk, a former high-school history teacher, an thor, and a proment LGBTQ-rights advote, was one of the GSA movement’s earlit pneers.