U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.”
Contents:
- GAY U.S. MARE DRAMA FROM NORMAN LEAR A GO AT NETFLIX
- THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
- THIS GAY MARE FELL LOVE WH NNG WHILE HE WAS STATNED IRAQ
- GAY MAR, THEN AND NOW
- NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
GAY U.S. MARE DRAMA FROM NORMAN LEAR A GO AT NETFLIX
Netflix has greenl a drama seri lled 'The Corps,' about a gay teenager who enlists the U.S. Mar cir 1990. * gay marines *
Netflix has greenl a seri — which unts the legendary Norman Lear among s executive producers — that will follow a gay teenager who enlists the U.
The streamer has orred 10 episos of The Corps, a drama that will follows Cameron Cope (Mil Heizer), a bullied gay teen who jos the Mar wh his straight bt iend, Ray McCaffey (Liam Oh), 1990 — a pre-Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell era when beg gay the ary uld mean jail time or worse. "The Inspectn" is a new feature about a young man who turns his life around the Mare Corps after beg kicked out of the hoe as a teen for beg gay and livg homels for several years.
The trailer for Bratton's film brgs a lot of the Mare Corps' re valu, so looks like we n expect a movie that portrays lead character Ellis French's ary experience a posive light spe of the herent problems a gay Mare would have faced that era. Intertgly enough, Gaona beiend many gay men after his stt the Mar, spe the apprehensn he was feelg about his own sexualy. Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water.
THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. * gay marines *
"Lbian, gay, and bisexual ary personnel had been servg our untry for s whout receivg equal protectn, while transgenr troops are still prohibed om servg openly. Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L. She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance.
THIS GAY MARE FELL LOVE WH NNG WHILE HE WAS STATNED IRAQ
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 marines *
In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s. Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy. “Be wh gay people, help the movement, help unmask the li beg told about , rrect the notn of homosexualy as a sickns and prent as is, a betiful way to love.
In 1969, she and another activist, Nancy Tucker, spun off a newspaper of their own, The Gay Bla, which beme the Washgton Bla, the untry’s olst L. Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr. Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic.
GAY MAR, THEN AND NOW
“The whole notn of gay people publicly exprsg their sentiments that fashn was beyond nceptualizatn until we started dog , ” the Mattache Society’s -founr, Frankl E.
”Her send film, “Gay and Proud, ” documented the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Para 1970, a memoratn of the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg Manhattan.
NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
The uprisg, after a police raid at Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village, was a turng pot the gay rights movement. “Gay and Proud” shows a much larger, and shaggier, gatherg of protters takg a more ant stance the para, chantg fiantly and wavg plards wh msag like “I am a lbian and I am betiful.
Vcenz’s films “gave visual documentatn of the astonishg distance that the gay movement had traveled between 1968 and 1970. J., Vcenz regnized her sexualy early on, she said a 2008 terview, and “ beme paful after a while to realize that I was gay and I didn’t know anyone else who was gay.
But after a stt as an edor the book publishg dtry, she cid to jo the Army, part bee she had heard was “a hotbed of gay people, ” acrdg to Ms. Farman’s putative hotbed, however, had a policy banng gay people om service, and she was thrown out while trag as a nropsychiatric technician at the Walter Reed ary hospal the 1970s, Dr. Vcenz ran a weekly discsn ssn lled the Gay Women’s Open Hoe, which functned as a marketplace of ias and sanctuary of sorts for lbians the Washgton area.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
“I fd a privilege to work wh gay people who are, general, so much more urageo, novative and open to new ias than the average straight person, ” she told Gay Today. It was Washgton — not Bethda, Md., where is we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the New York edn wh the headle: Lilli Vcenz, a Trailblazer the Gay Rights Movement, Di at 85. “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP.
Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology. Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology. Those outlets clud endls jok about the alleged flamg gayns of someone, bee no matter how society's view of homosexualy chang, teenagers are gog to make gay jok until the end of time.
" And here's where all of the weird homoerotic horseplay factors : Any plat about an cint like this n be wrten off as "Boys will be boys. "I uld eher report the asslt and be discharged for vlatg the ary's ban on homosexual behavr, or not say anythg and be tted for STDs.