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Contents:
- NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
- HOW THIS GAY SAILOR MA HISTORY
- WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
- WHAT TO EXPECT OM YOUR GAY SAILG HOLIDAY?
- "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
- NAVY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- GAY SAILOR
NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
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The two men are parents to Ethan, a prec 13-year-old known the flat, clay and pe untry as the only kid school wh two gay first openly gay SEAL has built a new life here at age 41 wh a fay that has replaced the two fai he lost — the one that raised him and the one he built wh fellow SEALs. Both his parents and the Navy banished him bee he’s this steamy night, the two gay parents and their straight son are sweatg and shovg as they fight to w a roughhoe driveway basketball game lled Cheater Ball. They are close, and necsarily so, sce a gay marriage — not to mentn gay parentg — is viewed wh ep spicn and outright hostily perhaps the most anti-gay state the Jon and Whe attend Ethan’s baseball gam, they say, ach and other parents barely speak to them.
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HOW THIS GAY SAILOR MA HISTORY
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He had served for six years and two ployments on mandg, secretive missns when his homosexualy was was the “don’t ask, don’t tell” era. They gossiped about him, ridiculg gays and sayg a homosexual SEAL would stroy un Navy dropped s vtigatn after Jon enlisted a natnal group that advot for gays the ary, and after members of Congrs tervened. Last December, they drove to Indiana to be married by a urt, 37, had lived his own secret, tormented life growg up Athens, where gays were ridiculed and monized.
WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
Fd out what a SAILORdus Gay Sailg Adventure is all about, and what you n expect om your active gay sailg holiday on the water. * first gay sailor *
His father cracked jok about homos and day Whe cid to e out, he says, “I told my dad and he stood up and I was bracg for a punch. ” His father apologized for all his gay slurs over the and his brother, Matt, helped nvce Jon to self-publish a memoir, “Pri: The Story of the First Openly Gay Navy SEAL, ” released October.
WHAT TO EXPECT OM YOUR GAY SAILG HOLIDAY?
The queerns of "Sailor Moon" pneered LGBTQ reprentatn kids show and n help bat harms om anti-LGBTQ laws like Don't Say Gay. * first gay sailor *
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"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
* first gay sailor *
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NAVY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
TONEY, Ala. — For years, Brett Jon lived a double life. He was a Navy SEAL, a mcular M-60 gunner traed to kill and survive enemy terrory. He was also gay. * first gay sailor *
They never discs Christiany or “the gay thg, ” Jon Jon, who liv At, Texas, says she lov and admir her son for his honty and urage. US Navy select first gay sailor to share the ‘ceremonial’ kiss wh his boyiend after seven months at sea. For the first time ever, the chosen sailor happened to be gay – makg this the first time the US Navy history that a male same-sex uple had been chosen for the homeg honour.
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TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
As "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to an end, we sent Chris Heath to terview dozens of gay servicemen om the past and prent to fd out what life was really like as Ameri's ary stggled wh s last great inty crisis * first gay sailor *
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Th, homoerotic iatn ruals allow servicemembers to flict the ab they’ve endured and also tt new members’ willgns to subm to tradn and group-thk whout succumbg to emotn or “stctive” homosexual sir. Jane Ward, thor of Not Gay: Sex between Straight Whe Men, says that the thkg surroundg the ruals is, “If you endure together this kd of mortifyg, huiatg and embarrassg homosexual act, then that not only toughens up your body, but will also build and strengthen that bond around you. That sounds like toxic heterocentrist mascule bullsh to , but here’s five homoerotic ary ruals we’ve heard of all the same:.
There’s a th (perhaps nonexistent) le between the homoerotic ary ruals and hazg, sexual asslt and rape. Liebman and more than 9, 000 Amerin servicemembers, however, eventually were given a Sectn 8 "blue discharge" for beg homosexual.
GAY SAILOR
The sailor athetic is irrevobly tertwed wh queer culture. The job scriptn of “sailor” has a straggergly gay history and the athetic has been ed time and time aga gay fashn, media, mic and more; thk Tom of Fland or Pierre et Gill. I e the word “gay” bee, more often than not, the… * first gay sailor *
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.