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Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn Center for Stunt Involvement | The NGPA dat back to around 1990 out of Provcetown, Massachetts. A handful of gay pilots gathered very discreetly to support each other and fight for equaly. It was a time when airle pilots risked losg their jobs or ary pilots dishonorably discharged for beg outed as gay. Over the urse of s over 25 year lifpan, the anizatn has sought to elimate the negative stigma of beg gay wh the aviatn dtry. We seek to enurage the LGBT muny to get volved aviatn, foster equaly, and provi a work for LGBT aviators around the world.

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'I DON'T FEEL PART OF THE MILARY ANYMORE': OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAV AFTER HARASSMENT

One of Naval Aviatn's few openly gay pilots is leavg his ary reer behd after only six years, cg harassment as the reason. * pilots gay *

'I Don't Feel Part Of The Milary Anymore': Openly Gay Pilot Leav After Harassment One of Naval Aviatn's few openly gay pilots is leavg his ary reer behd after only six years, cg harassment as the reason. 'I Don't Feel Part Of The Milary Anymore': Openly Gay Pilot Leav After Harassment.

OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAVG NAVY AFTER HARASSMENT

The cy of Cedar Rapids and Eastern Iowa Airport will host the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn’s “Wgs Over Iowa” fly- event June, a first-of-s kd event that will brg members of the worldwi LGBTQ aviatn muny to town. * pilots gay *

One of Naval Aviatn's few openly gay pilots is leavg his ary reer behd after only six years, cg harassment as the reason. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A after "don't ask, don't tell" end, one of Naval aviatn's few openly gay pilots is on his way out.

OUT OF THE CLOSET AND ON TO THE NWAY: GAY PILOTS

KPBS' Steve Walsh has the WALSH, BYLINE: For most of his six years the Navy, Litenant Adam Adamski says he felt supported as an openly gay pilot.

And I saw my drs wh draped over and around the TV, and there was hardre gay porn His uniform was wrapped around a TV playg pornography.

ADAMSKI: I received numero lls om people that are the closet that squadron, both men and women, and openly gay service members tellg me that they are upset and that they don't thk the climate, pecially for pilots, is a good climate that squadron and that they thk I should report The don't ask, don't tell policy end a ago, allowg LGBT service members to serve openly.

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN

Now substute the term LGBTQ+ for left-hand, and you have the plight of many gay persons—we e the term gay clively here.

This is part the reason behd the creatn of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn.

GAY PILOTS BRG LOVE OF AVIATN TO HELP KICK OFF PRI MONTH CEDAR RAPIDS

The Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, the worldwi LGBTQ+ aviatn muny, was tablished 1990 primarily as a social anizatn. June is a by month for the anizatn bee is Pri Month, marked by paras and other celebratns held around the world to regnize the impact that lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals have had on history.

It is celebrated June to memorate the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan, New York, which was a turng pot for the Gay Liberatn Movement the Uned Stat.

”Brian Gambo, print, Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn.

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN TO HOST FIRST-OF-S-KD FLY- EVENT CEDAR RAPIDS

He not that NGPA events give LGBTQ+ aviators a chance to relax and be themselv—and sometim that is difficult to do the aviatn workplace where they may enunter bigotry, homophobia, and transphobia.

It n manift the form of a worker g the word “gay” as a pejorative adjective or when someone misgenr-intifi someone by g the wrong pronouns or “adnam” them, the practice of g the former name of a transgenr dividual rather than the name they have chosen that better aligns wh their inty.

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