'We Took Care of Each Other': A Marime Unn's Hidn History of Gay-Straight and Interracial Solidary | Labor Not

Contents:

• THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
• GAY MAR, THEN AND NOW
• TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
• GAY U.S. MARE DRAMA FROM NORMAN LEAR A GO AT NETFLIX
• 'WE TOOK CARE OF EACH OTHER': A MARIME UNN'S HIDN HISTORY OF GAY-STRAIGHT AND INTERRACIAL SOLIDARY
• MILARY NU PHOTO VTIGATN EXPANDS TO GAY PORN WEBS
• GAY MARE KISS GO VIRAL
• NETFLIX ORRS GAY MARE DRAMEDY INSPIRED BY GREG COPE WHE MEMOIR, NORMAN LEAR TO PRODUCE
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
• HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'

"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. Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water.

"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.

The are the voic explag what has been like to be a gay man1 the Amerin ary over the prev seventy or so years, om World War II veterans their late eighti to young servicemen on active duty.

GAY MAR, THEN AND NOW

"I remember beg the Castro, " says John Forrett (army rerve, 1987–99), "and watchg the TV at a bar wh some iends, watchg Al Gore and Bill Clton swearg that if they beme the tag team for Ameri they were gog to get rid of the harassment of gays and lbians servg the ary.

" Gay people were allowed the ary but only as long as they didn’t reveal their sexualy; to facilate this, all members of the ary were also prohibed om quirg about anyone’s possible orientatn. Servicemen were advised that until then the policy would still apply, and that they uld potentially face s sanctns if they intify themselv publicly as gay.

You’re a Mare, you don’t md gettg dirty, gog out to the field and not showerg for weeks at a, if you were gay, when you have to shower wh all the other guys you’d get all exced. One Man’s Operatn Iraqi FreedomMany gay servicemen the morn era—cludg Eric Alva (Mar, 1991–2004)—have pleted long ary reers whout their sexualy ever beg revealed.

TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY

And therefore few people realized that the first Amerin serly wound the vasn of Iraq durg the send Gulf war was a gay Alva signed up, before "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, " he had to lie on his paperwork. Lbians have suffered unr the same prohibns and prejudic and share many of the same experienc, as well as some that are distct, but this article ncentrat on the experience of gay men.

And when, 2006, the battl over "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" the ary and gay marriage the wir muny were simmerg, Alva’s boyiend at the time poted out to him that he did have some notoriety that might be of e. (The meetgs have been arranged through a private onle work lled OutServe, set up only last year, which allows gay and lbian servicepeople a safe and secure way of fdg and munitg wh one another. To be the ary and still try to live any kd of life as a gay man, ’s not Force #4 (senr airman, four years): "Right now our relatnships don’t exist.

GAY U.S. MARE DRAMA FROM NORMAN LEAR A GO AT NETFLIX

In the shadow of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, " whenever gay servicemen did face any kd of homophobic harassment, they were powerls to draw attentn to whout potentially triggerg the end of their ary reer. The le self beme the very tool of their opprsn: "The ’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy, " says Joseph Rocha (navy, 2004–7), "punish homosexuals who ply, and protects bigots. Of a number of latg events—Rocha was also force-fed dog food and locked to a sh-filled dog kennel—the most abive and explicly homophobic was when he was orred by his manr to act a dog-trag scenar, repeated over and over so that every dog the un uld be n through .

'WE TOOK CARE OF EACH OTHER': A MARIME UNN'S HIDN HISTORY OF GAY-STRAIGHT AND INTERRACIAL SOLIDARY

Lovg so much that each scenar was gayer and more disgtg—the troductn of fake semen, that I would have to wipe my face, or that I would have to make slurpg nois. Anyone who gets off thkg that ’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ unr the Bh admistratn anyone uld have gone and said, ’Hey, I’m beg antagonized unr the prciple that I might be gay’ and feel safe is absurd.

Life Seventy Years Ago as a Gay Serviceman: World War IIIt was only really around the Send World War that ary discrimatn beme dified and anized, and that the foc moved om simply sanctns agast homosexual acts to an attempt to intify and weed out homosexual tennci—though, as would be seen aga and aga, when fightg bodi were need badly enough, such ncerns would often evaporate. "JM: "I found out right after the war that if someone were discharged as homosexual, a notice of that fact was sent home to their lol draft board, so that their whole muny would e to know that they were gay.

MILARY NU PHOTO VTIGATN EXPANDS TO GAY PORN WEBS

And this led directly to the formatn of gay ghettos the major ci, where people who uldn’t go home, bee their sexualy had been revealed by the army, had to move to Greenwich Village or the San Francis Castro. Manzella operated fully wh the vtigatn; when he was asked for evince that he wasn’t jt claimg to be gay orr to trigger a discharge, he even supplied photos, and footage of him and his boyiend passnately kissg on a road trip.

"While he was ployed, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a mpaigng group who had been givg him guidance, told him that 60 Mut wanted to do a piece about an openly gay man servg a bat zone, persuadg him that would give a voice to the "65, 000 men and women the ary" who weren’t able to live as openly as he was. I was nfed until beme clear that, partly by chance and partly by a cha of personal remendatns over the years, this trailer park had bee some kd of gay-veteran hot spot: There are eight or ten others livg here, and more nearby. He says that he didn’t seek promotn past a certa pot bee would have required an vtigatn to get him clearance, and he was ncerned they would disver his subscriptns to gay magaz.

One Man’s Vietnam"Back the ’50s Oregon, " rells Tom Norton (Army, 1968-71), "they were still puttg people jail for homosexual activy, and that certaly sends a strong msage to a young kid. "Norton wasn’t sexually active Vietnam—"I would numb myself and avoid anythg sexual"—and was only years later that he realized that some of the men his social circle there were gay.

GAY MARE KISS GO VIRAL

"Air Force #2: "There’s one good iend that I thought about tellg, but always right when I thk, ’Okay, ’s ol to tell him, ’ he’ll say somethg that is kd of weird about gay people. The senator I worked for and the ngrsman I worked for knew I was gay—they were both nservative Republins—and they wrote a letter of remendatn to get me to the Mare Corps. ’ The CO looked at my iend and said, ’If somebody wants to get off my ship for beg gay, they have to e to me wh two Polaroids, both of them they have to be clearly suckg ck, and I want to be able to see their face.

One Man’s Secret Too ManyIt’s temptg to see gay servicemen’s entire ary existence through the prism of this sgle issue—the mpaigner, the opprsed, the stoic endurer—and as the totaly of who they are. In June 1998, Richard Merrt (Mar, 1985–98) appeared on the ver of The New York Tim Magaze, uniform but wh his face obscured, and si the story scribed what life was actually like for someone gay servg the ary.

" In her story he me across as, he says, "a very nservative type of gay, " but when he started lettg people know that s subject was him, he mt have known the clock was tickg. "I had taken some time off om my battaln and was stg at home jt flippg through the San Diego Gay and Lbian Tim, and there was an ad for ’male mols wanted. ’" The way he sometim jtified to himself what he did was that was a rponse to the ary’s homophobia, albe an extreme one: "I would feel very angry at the policy, and beme ’Well, fuck you, Mare Corps—I’m gog to do this and be as gay as I want to be for the world to see.

NETFLIX ORRS GAY MARE DRAMEDY INSPIRED BY GREG COPE WHE MEMOIR, NORMAN LEAR TO PRODUCE

"Navy #3: "Nobody joed up to be ’the un gay guy, ’ but that’s who you’re gog to be, and I thk ’s cumbent on who are senr to basilly intify ourselv so that younger kids n look and say, ’Hey, is okay.

Some likely post-repeal plitns: ristant pockets of homophobia the ary; the ntued right to voice certa homophobic sentiments unr, for stance, the eedom of relig exprsn; possible aternizatn charg if gay servicemen of different ranks ntue to associate wh each other as they often did the silent years; growg disquiet at the absence of partner rights equivalent to those for servicemen’s wiv. 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. Des before the morn LGBTQ+ movement, a small but ant unn of marime workers on the Wt Coast wh openly gay members and lears ed a slogan lkg discrimatn agast gay men, racial discrimatn, and red-bag. And although a high percentage of the oks and stewards were “queens, ” as gay men preferred to ll themselv at the time, the unn rarely if ever stood up for them when they were tnted—or “queen-baed”—by straight workers.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

” Stephen “Mickey” Blair, a whe, gay MCS member told Bébé, “Mare Cooks and Stewards took the digny that was each of and built up, so you uld get up the morng and say to yourself ‘I n make through this day.

Many of the new members were gay men who want to serve their untry the fight agast fascism but had been kicked out of the ary for their sexual orientatn. On Monday morng, the Facebook page of Mare Corps Rec Depot Parris Island posted an illtratn of a Mare nng, standg for the I Pri, wh photos behd of gay rights activists terspersed a cloud of rabow-like lor.

The ptn noted was the 10-year anniversary of the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, ” a Clton-era policy that allowed gay and lbian people to serve the ary as long as their sexualy was kept secret. “The current day Mar that also disagree will have this thrown their fac and bee they disagree they will likely be ridiculed, ” he add, ncludg that the Corps had succumbed to fluenc that “do not belong, ” prumably meang gay and lbian people. “Bee the Commandant says so, ” me the rponse, which lked to a Mare admistrative msage, published earlier this month, explag that lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Pri Month is celebrated each year June.

HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR

Although the Pentagon do not mata statistics on the number of LGBT service members currently the ranks, one study timated 2016 there were between 63, 000 and 105, 000 lbian, gay, or bisexual service members. WASHINGTON — The ary sndal volvg sharg of sexually explic imag of troops has expand beyond the private social media se Mar Uned to a slew of gay pornography web pag wh imag of men wearg ary uniforms engaged sex acts, USA TODAY has broaned vtigatn to an creasg number of webs unrsr the plexy of policg social media s where sensive imag n be upload an stant for all to see. In the se of the s wh gay pornography, ary vtigators will be tasked wh termg whether active-duty troops were volved nduct that uld brg discred on their service, a potential vlatn of ary Mare Corps is not the only service affected.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

Victims of so-lled revenge porn the Mar Uned se have limed protectn unr ary law if the photographs or vios were taken origally wh their Pentagon has tablished a jot ary task force to handle the growg vtigatn, said MaryAnn Cummgs, a spokwoman for the Naval Crimal Invtigative, Mare, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard vtigators have "tablished a multi-service task force to expand the vtigatn, " she more:Senators rip top Mare over onle nu photo shargMar nu photo sndal volv all branch of ary: ReportsLawmakers nmn explic photos of female Mar posted on social mediaMilary officials briefed Congrs on Thursday about the Mar Uned sndal, which hundreds of active-duty Mar have viewed photos of servicewomen taken whout their nsent and cyberbullied some of some of the gay Tumblr s, fully drsed troops appear photos wh their name tags visible. Naval Hospal Rota Spa posted a Pri graphic created by the Milary Health System, and said, “The Defense Health Agency (DHA) regniz the work of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins tablishg a ee natn that valu diversy, a val ponent of a ee natn. The official logle stat, “Set 1990, ‘The Corps’ is about Cameron, a bullied, gay high school stunt who jos the Mare Corps wh his straight bt iend, Ray — a dangero move when beg gay the ary meant jail time or worse.