<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>
Contents:
- GAY SAILORS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
- GAY AND BEG A 'SAILOR'
- THIS VETERAN'S JOB WAS DISCHARGG GAY SAILORS IN THE NAVY — BUT HE HAD A SECRET
- GAY SAILOR
GAY SAILORS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
Fd the perfect gay sailors stock photo, image, vector, illtratn or 360 image. Available for both RF and RM licensg. * royal navy gay sailors *
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. 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.
GAY AND BEG A 'SAILOR'
* royal navy gay sailors *
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.
THIS VETERAN'S JOB WAS DISCHARGG GAY SAILORS IN THE NAVY — BUT HE HAD A SECRET
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.
GAY SAILOR
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.