Gays the Milary: New Facts Conquer Old Taboos | RAND

Contents:

• SO ANY GAY GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN THE MILARY OR NAVY POST HERE?
• NATNALLY REPRENTATIVE PREVALENCE TIMAT OF GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN WHO HAVE SERVED THE U.S. ARY
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• GAYS THE MILARY: NEW FACTS CONQUER OLD TABOOS

SO ANY GAY GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN THE MILARY OR NAVY POST HERE?

Got missned as an officer 2002 and am approachg my 12th year a gay man, 2002 - 2004 were the worst bee I was so aaid of gettg kicked out unr Don't Ask Don't those were technilly supposed to be among the bt years of my datg life! Surprisgly, I've found the Army to be the gay-iendlit branch (most of my good iends are straight Soldiers who know I'm gay and have been nothg but supportive) Anonymoreply 6Febary 9, 2014 9:51 PM. Steve Clark Hall, a gay graduate om the class of 1975, said he knew gay classmat who were kicked out of the Amy and uld not return home to the fai who disowned them.

“It is obv to me that the real problem is not homosexualy, but rather, the ary’s open and officially supported prejudice agast homosexuals who have the sire and pabily to serve their untry. While this was seen as progrs at the time, Hall poted out how part of Clton’s platform was to allow gays, lbians, and bisexuals to openly serve the ary.

“Now I unrstand that the numbers are higher for suici wh the ary, but beg gay and the ary fely would spike those numbers even higher. Named for Navy veteran and genr and gay rights advote Harvey Milk, the ship is the send an expected class of 20 fleet unrway replenishment ships schled to replace the agg Henry J. DoD LGBTQ+ Timele: This timele not signifint events and polici chronologil orr that had a signifint impact on Department of Defense (DoD) polici, stctns, or orrs as they relate to the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny.

NATNALLY REPRENTATIVE PREVALENCE TIMAT OF GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN WHO HAVE SERVED THE U.S. ARY

Ary who are gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex wh men (MSM) to rm the velopment of ary and other feral signWe analyzed data om the Natnal Surveys of Fay Growth to timate the number of U.

IntroductnHistorilly, timat of the number of ary personnel who are gay or bisexual have been ed to evaluate the impact of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy Uned Stat ary, and of same-sex marriage benefs for ary personnel by the Congrsnal Budget Office[1–5].

Accurate timat of the number of ary personnel who are gay or bisexual are necsary to liver optimal health servic, cludg the provisn of remend HIV and STD preventn and re servic, as well as other sexual, reproductive, and behavral health servic [8].

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

While all ary personnel might be at risk of mental health or substance abe problems, pecially those who serve on bat tours, gay and bisexual ary personnel have been found to be at creased risk[15–20].

Gay and bisexual ary personnel might also experience stigma and victimizatn while servg[3, 21] studi have timated the percentage of U. In this study, we ed a natnally reprentative survey to lculate a direct timate of the percentage of men who self-reported as gay, bisexual, or other MSM among men aged 18–44 years who had served the ary.

GAYS THE MILARY: NEW FACTS CONQUER OLD TABOOS

Rponnts were asked about their sexual orientatn wh the qutn, “Do you thk of yourself as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or somethg else? ” If rponnts who had not reported their sexual orientatn as gay or bisexual but reported ≥ 1 male sex partner(s) were hierarchilly tegorized as other lculated the proportn of all U.