Navy Chiefs Orred Secret Purge of Gay Sailors

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<b>From a closeted gay sailor who typed the dishonorable discharg for Korean War servicemen acced of homosexualy, to a lbian rrectively raped by Mar while servg Dert Storm, the are the stori of LGBT veterans and their s-long fight for equaly the armed forc.</b>

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By referencg the nearly accintal act of 'sodomy, ' Cleland taps to the popular imprsn that sailors engaged homosexualy. Rictor Norton, at his webse Homosexualy Eighteenth-Century England, has llected an imprsive number of primary sourc, though few reference sailors.

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Somethg that be clear Norton's work is that there was ltle or no legal distctn at the time between those who engaged a sgle same-sex act, those who were exclively homosexual, and anyone who fell between.

THIS VETERAN'S JOB WAS DISCHARGG GAY SAILORS IN THE NAVY — BUT HE HAD A SECRET

In his A Queer History of the Uned Stat, Michael Bronski pots out that the very term 'homosexual' wasn't vented until 1869 'to help nstct a narrative around a person fed by his or her same-sex sexual sir and actns.

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We nnot say that sailors who engaged homosexual acts intified as homosexual, nor n we say that others fed them as such before they were nvicted. Here I ed the term 'homosexual' to refer to clatns and acts, rather than as fg the sailors themselv. Brish society believed that a lack of accs to women gave rise to homosexualy, and there was perhaps no place the eighteenth century so exclively male as the navy.

The legal notn that one is eher exclively homosexual or heterosexual n be seen the se of William Bailey.

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