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
Contents:
- MAN WHO PROTECTED PRINTS WR TELL-ALL MEMOIR: BREAKG FREE, A SAGA OF SELF-DISVERY BY A GAY SECRET SERVICE AGENT
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- GAY EX-SECRET SERVICE AGENT CORY ALLEN SHAR HIS STORY
- BREAKG FREE: A SAGA OF SELF-DISVERY BY A GAY SECRET SERVICE AGENT
- THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
- BENJAM CHARL WATSON BRGS BLACK AND GAY VISIBILY TO DIGNATED SURVIVOR
- BT GAY ROMANCE WH A CRIMAL OR SECRET ORGANIZATN THEME
- LGBTQ #GAYAGENT #SECRETSERVICE #GAYP #SELFDISVERY #OBAMA #POTUS #SCOTUS #GAYRIGHTS
MAN WHO PROTECTED PRINTS WR TELL-ALL MEMOIR: BREAKG FREE, A SAGA OF SELF-DISVERY BY A GAY SECRET SERVICE AGENT
Man who protected prints wr tell-all memoir: Breakg Free, A Saga of Self-Disvery by a Gay Secret Service Agent * gay secret service *
His recently released book, Breakg Free: A Saga of Self-Disvery by a Gay Secret Service Agent is the first book released om a gay feral agent the Uned Stat 30 years, and the first ever om a Secret Service is our gut today. Breakg Free: A Saga of Self-Disvery by a Gay Secret Service Agent is a eply personal, ndid, and vulnerable dive to the life of a gay man navigatg law enforcement, ernment, and his own turbulent love life. 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.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
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"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.
GAY EX-SECRET SERVICE AGENT CORY ALLEN SHAR HIS STORY
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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. I mean, if you want to hi, the Mare Corps is one of the bt plac to do that, bee nobody wants to adm they are standg next to a gay guy.
BREAKG FREE: A SAGA OF SELF-DISVERY BY A GAY SECRET SERVICE AGENT
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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. 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.
THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
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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.
BENJAM CHARL WATSON BRGS BLACK AND GAY VISIBILY TO DIGNATED SURVIVOR
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.
BT GAY ROMANCE WH A CRIMAL OR SECRET ORGANIZATN THEME
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 . 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.
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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.