Openly Gay Pilot Leavg Navy After Harassment | KPBS Public Media

Contents:

• THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
• "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
• OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAVG NAVY AFTER HARASSMENT
• GAY U.S. MARE DRAMA FROM NORMAN LEAR A GO AT NETFLIX
• MIL HEIZER TO STAR AS GAY MARE NETFLIX DRAMEDY FROM NORMAN LEAR; VERA FARMIGA, MAX PARKER ALSO CAST

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. Bratton lived on the streets for a after beg kicked out of the hoe for beg gay. 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.

I thk back to my time the Corps and I remember how credibly stupid was that was nsired illegal to be gay.

The set up for this ic is actually a reference to a terrible homophobic joke I’ve seen many tim over the years along the l of….

"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS

Back when I enlisted was illegal to be gay. The tent of this joke is obvly to disparage the ia of an all-gay Mare Corps, but the more you thk about , the more an all-gay Corps actually mak sense. Hear me out: if the ary is all about efficiency, an all-gay Mare Corps would be much closer to that utopian society visn than the former straight Corps.

…So did disallowg people to serve on the basis of them beg gay.

Of urse, we already know that the Mare Corps is actually the gayt thg a straight man n ever do… And now that I thk about , maybe there’s a rrelatn to this and the fact that Mar have historilly been known as one of the world’s most ele fightg forc… Perhaps a thought for another day. Gay and Lbian soldiers faced extraordary discrimatn durg World War II. Liebman and more than 9, 000 Amerin servicemembers, however, eventually were given a Sectn 8 "blue discharge" for beg homosexual.

OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAVG NAVY AFTER HARASSMENT

The 1994 documentary Comg Out Unr Fire giv voice to the experienc of thoands of gay and lbian servicemembers who joed the ary durg World War II, a story that is largely ignored by historians and mms across the untry. In 1993, the Uned Stat was batg the discrimatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regardg homosexuals the morn ary.

At the time, homosexualy was classified as a mental illns by the medil muny; mental illns was one ndn that disqualified young people om service. Gay and lbian recs were forced to answer qutns vaguely, or lie about their sexualy, orr to be allowed to serve; otherwise, they would n the risk of beg sent home and brand as “sex perverts. By the middle of the war, the ary sought new ways to target and expel homosexuals.

Instead of chargg dividuals wh sodomy, a urt-martialed offense, the ary began intifyg spected homosexuals as psychopaths. Such a move created an efficient system of discrimatn and prosecutn of homosexual members of the ary. We were gay.

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

Dpe the threat of persecutn, gay and lbian servicemembers thrived durg World War II.

MIL HEIZER TO STAR AS GAY MARE NETFLIX DRAMEDY FROM NORMAN LEAR; VERA FARMIGA, MAX PARKER ALSO CAST

The new iendships gave gay and lbian GIs refuge om the hostily that surround them and allowed for a distct subculture to velop wh the ary. Servicemembers on every waront enjoyed drag show entertament; an entire gay lexin was veloped om the wrgs of Dorothy Parker; and eventually an unrground queer newspaper emerged.

Soldiers reprented female characters ary plays, and some homosexual soldiers found refuge om rigid genr rol. The irony that the ary selected two homosexuals to reprent the ial image of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was not lost on Abry.

Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, which banned homosexuals om feral employment. Over 5, 000 feral employe lost their jobs over accatns of homosexualy. The feral discrimatory actns drove LGBTQ people further to the shadows of society and embolned law enforcement and policians, who beme more vlent toward gay and lbian cizens.