Camp Pendleton Mar Told 'Hangg Around' Gay Bar Not Unual - CBS Los Angel

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• CAMP PENDLETON MAR TOLD 'HANGG AROUND' GAY BAR NOT UNUAL
• SUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"ARMY STUDY FDS MAR' TUN TAVERN WAS ACTUALLY A GAY BAR","SCRIPTN":"PHILADELPHIA, PA. \U2014 A RECENT ARCHAEOLOGIL STUDY MISSNED AND FUND BY THE UNED STAT ARMY HAS YIELD A SURPRISG DISVERY JT EAST OF FRONT STREET PHILALPHIA, PENN. SOME ARY HISTORIANS ARE LLG THIS THE MOST ASTONISHG ARY-THEMED FD SCE THE UNEARTHG OF THE TERRATTA ARMY RAL CHA.","IMAGE":[{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"}],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2013-07-11T07:00:27+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2013-07-11T07:00:27+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":FALSE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"JACK MANDAVILLE","URL":","SCRIPTN":NULL,"INTIFIER":"ER:2728068"}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"DUFFEL BLOG","URL":","SCRIPTN":"AMERI\U2019S MOST TSTED MILARY NEWS. \U201CTHEY\U2019VE MA A LOT OF FUN OF ME AND I\U2019VE ENJOYED EVERY B OF .\U201D\U2014SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MATTIS","INTIFIER":"PUB:101619","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}}SHARE THIS POSTARMY STUDY FDS MAR' TUN TAVERN WAS ACTUALLY A GAY COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERARMY STUDY FDS MAR' TUN TAVERN WAS ACTUALLY A GAY BAR
• THE PROUD, THE FEW, AND THE GAY BAR -- LOUNGE BS FLOURISH IN SHADOW OF MARE BASE
• 2 MAR INVTIGATED FOR 'COMG TO A GAY BAR NEAR YOU' POST
• 3 MAR ARE ACQUTED OF ASSLT AT GAY BAR

CAMP PENDLETON MAR TOLD 'HANGG AROUND' GAY BAR NOT UNUAL

Supportg gay pri paras. Ary officers to accept the liftyl of openly-gay soldiers began on Thursday at Camp Pendleton and around the U. Members of the 1st Mare Logistics Group reported to class to receive trag material that challeng Mar on their reactns to scenars that range om seeg a fellow soldier "hangg around" a gay bar to hearg locker room jok om others who refe to shower ont of gays.

There is nothg wrong wh "hangg around" a gay bar, the materials state.

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The officer who wns the loud locker-room banter aimed at gays and lbians should remd the Mar any discrimatn or harassment is appropriate.

Likewise, if he turns on the televisn news to see a fellow Mare drsed as a civilian and marchg a para wh a banner that reads, "Support Gays and Lbians the Milary! As the ary prepar to end the 17-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" that would pave the way for homosexual officers to serve openly, Mar and officers throughout the U.

"You rema obligated to follow orrs that volve teractn wh others who are gay or lbian, even if an unwillgns to do so is based on strong, scerely held moral or relig beliefs, " the trag material stat.

THE PROUD, THE FEW, AND THE GAY BAR -- LOUNGE BS FLOURISH IN SHADOW OF MARE BASE

Chaplas who preach at base chapels that homosexualy is a s are entled to exprs their relig beliefs durg worship. Back June 2009, Rose Roy of Bemont, Texas — an allegedly gay sailor — was found murred on base at Camp Pendleton.

Some ary historians are llg this the most astonishg ary-themed fd sce the unearthg of the Terratta Army ral dig has unvered evince suggtg that Tun Tavern — the beloved stutnal Mec of the Uned Stat Mare Corps — was an active gay bar when the Corps’ first officers ed to rec the origal Contental Mar 1775.

2 MAR INVTIGATED FOR 'COMG TO A GAY BAR NEAR YOU' POST

But the owner of Jacksonville's only gay bar is edgy. Any gay bar wh sptg distance of a ary base might be nervo, given the firtorm greetg Print Clton's apparent termatn to end the ban on homosexuals the ary. C., gay bar and beaten by three Mar, reportedly retaliatn for Clton's efforts to end the ban.

"They'd be llg me a `Clton sailor' for sure, " he says, g the new ary phemism for homosexual.

Jay Farrar ni any specific knowledge about Friend's, he quot NIS officials who say that sort of anti-gay surveillance was disntued around 1985. They're real proud to be Amerins, real proud to be gay, and they love their untry. Like all active-duty homosexuals terviewed, Craig refed to let his last name be ed.

3 MAR ARE ACQUTED OF ASSLT AT GAY BAR

"For some reason, most Mar assume if you're gay, you're gog to be after them. Only Tracey, a lance rporal om Orlando, Fla., vows she'll acknowledge she's gay the moment the ban is lifted. Homosexuals the ary scribe a range of pg strategi.

Many - pecially officers who won't risk beg spotted by a subordate at a gay bar - rely on rmal social works, meetg at private parti. Some marry gay or straight people of the oppose sex for mouflage. Why jo the ary if you know you're gay?

Gays the ary argue that they enlist for the same reasons as everyone else - for a job a prsed enomy, for tnal opportuni, and sometim out of patrtism.