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• 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT,' SAYS GENERAL
• FIRST-EVER GAY 'DEAR JOHN' LETTERS BEG REACHG U.S. TROOPS OVERSEAS
• REPEAL OF 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL' PAV WAY FOR GAY SEX RIGHT ON BATTLEFIELD, OPPONENTS FANTASIZE
• MILARY'S GAY POLICY BEG REEVALUATED
• GAY-PRI PARA SETS MASTREAM ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS BACK 50 YEARS
• GENERAL SAYS 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT': THE ONN (VIDEO)
• HELL NOW A THRIVG EPICENTER OF GAY CULTURE
• THE ELE GAY ARMY OF ANCIENT GREECETHE SACRED BAND OF THEB FEATED EVEN THE SPARTANSPETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·4 M READ·OCT 11, 2020--3SHAREGREEK WARRRS — ARTISTIC IMAGE (IMAGE:ARTSTATN/@ALIAKSANDR TRYZON)THE SACRED BAND WAS AN ELE ARY UN OM THEB PRISG 150 GAY UPL. AT THE BATTLE OF LCTRA 371 BC, THE 300 GAY WARRRS LED THE THEBAN ARMY AGAST THE SPARTAN ARMY. THE THEBANS WON AND SHATTERED THE SPARTAN NTROL OF GREECE.THE GREEK VIEW ON GAY WARRRSA MALE UPLE ENGAGG TERCRAL SEX. DEPICTED ON ANCIENT GREEK POTTERY (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE THEBANS BELIEVED GAY WARRRS FOUGHT BETTER ORR TO IMPRS AND PROTECT THEIR LOVERS. IF A LOVER FELL DURG A BATTLE, HIS PARTNER WOULD FIGHT EVEN HARR TO AVENGE HIS ATH.THREE THOAND YEARS AGO ANCIENT GREECE, BEG GAY OR LBIAN WAS NOT A CRIME. IN FACT, CERTA SUATNS, THE GREEKS EVEN ENURAGED HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS.YOUNG BOYS EXCHANGED ROMANTIC FAVORS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE PROVID BY THEIR OLR TUTORS. FATHERS WOULD PRAY TO THE GODS FOR THEIR SONS TO BE ATTRACTIVE BEE MEANT A BETTER MENTOR. SUCH RELATNSHIPS LASTED UNTIL THE YOUNG BOYS REACHED ADULTHOOD.SOLDIERS WOULD FORM ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS WH ONE ANOTHER TO BOOST THEIR MORALE.THE GREEK SOCIETY DIFFERENTIATED BETWEEN ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ROL BOTH GENRS TOOK DURG SEX. AN ACTIVE ROLE, BEG A PERATOR, MEANT MASCULY, ADULTHOOD, AND PRTIGE. A PASSIVE ROLE, BEG PERATED, REPRENTED FEMY, YOUTH, AND SHAME.FOR A RECEIVG PARTNER, ANAL SEX WAS MEANG. INSTEAD, THEY ENGAGED TERCRAL SEX.THE MEMBERS OF THE SACRED BAND OF THEB WERE ROMANTIC PARTNERS. THEY LLED AN OLR PARTNER THE ERAST (‘LOVER’) AND A YOUNGER ONE THE EROMENOS (‘BELOVED’). EACH PAIR EXCHANGED SACRED VOWS AT THE TEMPLE OF IOLS, THE LOVER OF HERACL.FACTS ABOUT THE SACRED BAND OF THEB
• THE ONN - 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT'
• LEADG ADVOCY GROUP FOR GAY RIGHTS THE US MILARY SHUTTG DOWN
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
• ONN TAK ON GAYS THE MILARY
• 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK COMBAT' SAYS GENERAL
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT,' SAYS GENERAL

BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN—Hailed as a monumental step toward equaly by gay rights activists, hundreds of Dear John letters reportedly began reachg newly outed troops overseas this week, notifyg soldiers for the first time ever that their same-sex partners back home were leavg them and startg a new life wh someone of the many historic letters U. Service members across the world are begng to Week's Most Viral News: July 28, 2023OffEnglishAcrdg to Pentagon observers, the torrent of bsque, llo letters—which followed Tuday's repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy—has left romantilly betrayed homosexuals every branch of the service grapplg wh feelgs of rejectn and spair, a momento tone U.

"For too long, gays and lbians the armed forc were barred om receivg such letters, leavg them woefully unaware that the person they once lled their soul mate had been cheatg on them throughout their ployment, " said Clarence Navarro of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocy group. ""This is a great day for homosexuals, " Navarro add.

FIRST-EVER GAY 'DEAR JOHN' LETTERS BEG REACHG U.S. TROOPS OVERSEAS

"Navarro told reporters the Defense Department's willgns to embrace gay soldiers, cludg those sudnly plunged to gut- wrenchg heartache an unfivg war zone 8, 000 om home, was a sign the Amerin ary had fally moved to the 21st century. Soldier fally experiencg what 's like to be emotnally stroyed an 800-word ntacted for ment, many troops who had received their first-ever gay or lbian Dear John letters durg mail ll Tuday acknowledged the historic signifince of their cshg, ldhearted abandonment. Those are words earlier generatns of gay soldiers never had the opportuny to read.

A longtime proponent of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, McCa stated he would personally feel unfortable knowg that "one of the guys next to [him] the trench" was not only gay, but also "heartbroken, vulnerable, and lookg for fort om his fellow troops. ""There's no place for homosexuals breakg up wh one another via letter the U. "Given recent sualty figur, LGBT groups said they were also well on their way toward achievg pary the number of openly gay ary widows and widowers.

REPEAL OF 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL' PAV WAY FOR GAY SEX RIGHT ON BATTLEFIELD, OPPONENTS FANTASIZE

WASHINGTON—As Congrs prepar to allow gay dividuals to serve openly the ary, those agast the proposed change voiced their ncerns Monday, warng the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" uld soon lead to strong, strappg Amerin soldiers engagg md-blowg homosexual terurse right on the Week's Most Viral News: July 28, 2023OffEnglish"We're sendg our soldiers out there wh a missn, and that missn is to protect this untry, " said Rep.

"Others have argued that allowg gay soldiers to ph their liftyle on others, ttg the lims of pleasure a man n take before he epts unntrollable ecstasy, would serly damage morale. "Many active-duty service members told reporters allowg gay dividuals to be open about their sexualy would rult great disfort among platoons overseas. Ted Stevens (R-AK), who over the urse of several days repeatedly screened the gay pornographic film Thrill Sergeant and mand to know if his lleagu liked that sort of opponents argued that future bat missns might slowly beg like this scene om 'Traed To Obey'This May, Sen.

John McCa (R-AZ) promised voters he would do everythg his power to prevent gays om servg openly the armed forc, and on Thursday, he told reporters that the role of the ary is to fend Amerin eedoms, not "the rights of, you know, those people some of stay up all night thkg about as we toss and turn.

MILARY'S GAY POLICY BEG REEVALUATED

Some of the homosexuals lock themselv below ck and beg touchg themselv, " said the 73-year-old senator and Vietnam War veteran, his breath quickeng. The Obama admistratn is the early stag of revampg the policy for gays the ary.

GAY-PRI PARA SETS MASTREAM ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS BACK 50 YEARS

"The are important steps toward the day when Ameri will fally have s first openly gay battlhip. "Charl Duvall • Reactor OperatorThis Week's Most Viral News: July 28, 2023OffEnglish"I'm not sure I support a policy allowg openly gay people to serve. I thk my son might be gay, and I would like to be proud of him for at least some reason.

GENERAL SAYS 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT': THE ONN (VIDEO)

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA–The mastream acceptance of gays and lbians, a hard-won civil-rights victory gaed through s of stggle agast prejudice and discrimatn, was set back at least 50 years Saturday the wake of the annual Los Angel Gay Pri Para. Participants Saturday's Los Angel Gay Pri Para, which helped change straight people's tolerant attus toward Week's Most Viral News: July 28, 2023OffEnglish"I'd always thought gays were regular people, jt like you and me, and that the stereotype of homosexuals as hedonistic, sex-crazed viants was jt a stctive myth, " said mother of four Hannah Jarrett, 41, mortified at the sight of 17 tanned and oiled boys vortg jock straps to a throbbg techno beat on a float shaped like an enormo phall.

" The para, anized by the Los Angel Gay And Lbian And Bisexual And Transvte And Transgenr Alliance (LAGALABATATA), was tend to "promote acceptance, tolerance, and equaly for the cy's gay muny. " Jt the oppose, however, was acplished, as the event nfirmed the worst fears of thoands of non-gay spectators, cementg their mds a bched and distorted image of gay life straight out of the most vilent right-wg hate lerature. Among the para sights and sounds that did timable harm to the gay-rights e: a group of obe women leather biker outfs passg out cloris-shaped lollipops to horrified onlookers; a man ary uniform leadg a submissive masochist, clad diapers and a baby bon, around on a dog leash; several Hispanic dancers rabow wigs and miskirts performg "humpg" motns on a mannequ drsed as the Pope; and a dozen gyratg drag queens see-through drs holdg penis-shaped beer bottl that appeared to spurt ejaculatn-like foam when shaken and poured onto passersby.

HELL NOW A THRIVG EPICENTER OF GAY CULTURE

Timothy Oros, 51, a lol Walgreens manager whose store is on the para route, changed his attu toward gays as a rult of the event. ' and 'Hey, hey, we're gay, we're not gog to go away!

Allison Weber, 43, an El Segundo marketg nsultant, also had her perceptns and assumptns about gays challenged by the para. "My unrstandg was that gay people are jt like everybody else–cent, hard-workg people who re about their muni and have lovg, mted relatnships, " Weber said. Footage of the event was featured on telests of The 700 Club as "proof of the s-steeped world of homosexualy.

" A photo spread Monday's USA Today chronicled many of the event's vulgar displays–unrstood by gays to be tongue--cheek "high mp"–which horrified prevly tolerant people om ast to ast. Henry Thorne, a New York Universy history profsor who has wrten several books about the gay-rights movement, explaed the misunrstandg.

THE ELE GAY ARMY OF ANCIENT GREECETHE SACRED BAND OF THEB FEATED EVEN THE SPARTANSPETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·4 M READ·OCT 11, 2020--3SHAREGREEK WARRRS — ARTISTIC IMAGE (IMAGE:ARTSTATN/@ALIAKSANDR TRYZON)THE SACRED BAND WAS AN ELE ARY UN OM THEB PRISG 150 GAY UPL. AT THE BATTLE OF LCTRA 371 BC, THE 300 GAY WARRRS LED THE THEBAN ARMY AGAST THE SPARTAN ARMY. THE THEBANS WON AND SHATTERED THE SPARTAN NTROL OF GREECE.THE GREEK VIEW ON GAY WARRRSA MALE UPLE ENGAGG TERCRAL SEX. DEPICTED ON ANCIENT GREEK POTTERY (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE THEBANS BELIEVED GAY WARRRS FOUGHT BETTER ORR TO IMPRS AND PROTECT THEIR LOVERS. IF A LOVER FELL DURG A BATTLE, HIS PARTNER WOULD FIGHT EVEN HARR TO AVENGE HIS ATH.THREE THOAND YEARS AGO ANCIENT GREECE, BEG GAY OR LBIAN WAS NOT A CRIME. IN FACT, CERTA SUATNS, THE GREEKS EVEN ENURAGED HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS.YOUNG BOYS EXCHANGED ROMANTIC FAVORS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE PROVID BY THEIR OLR TUTORS. FATHERS WOULD PRAY TO THE GODS FOR THEIR SONS TO BE ATTRACTIVE BEE MEANT A BETTER MENTOR. SUCH RELATNSHIPS LASTED UNTIL THE YOUNG BOYS REACHED ADULTHOOD.SOLDIERS WOULD FORM ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS WH ONE ANOTHER TO BOOST THEIR MORALE.THE GREEK SOCIETY DIFFERENTIATED BETWEEN ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ROL BOTH GENRS TOOK DURG SEX. AN ACTIVE ROLE, BEG A PERATOR, MEANT MASCULY, ADULTHOOD, AND PRTIGE. A PASSIVE ROLE, BEG PERATED, REPRENTED FEMY, YOUTH, AND SHAME.FOR A RECEIVG PARTNER, ANAL SEX WAS MEANG. INSTEAD, THEY ENGAGED TERCRAL SEX.THE MEMBERS OF THE SACRED BAND OF THEB WERE ROMANTIC PARTNERS. THEY LLED AN OLR PARTNER THE ERAST (‘LOVER’) AND A YOUNGER ONE THE EROMENOS (‘BELOVED’). EACH PAIR EXCHANGED SACRED VOWS AT THE TEMPLE OF IOLS, THE LOVER OF HERACL.FACTS ABOUT THE SACRED BAND OF THEB

"After centuri of opprsn as an 'visible' segment of society, gays, embolned by the 1969 Stonewall uprisg, took to the streets the early '70s wh an '-your-face' attu. Conontg the worst prejudic of a world that didn't accept them, they fought back agast the prejudic wh exaggeratn and parody, reclaimg their enemi' worst stereotyp about them and turng them to symbols of gay pri, " Thorne said.

"Thirty years later, gays have won far greater acceptance the world at large, but they keep dog this stuff anyway. The Los Angel Gay Pri Para, Thorne noted, is part of a s-old gay-rights tradn. "I have a who's a gay, and he seemed like a cent enough guy to me, " said Iowa Cy, IA, rint Rs Lr, Los Angel for a weekend sal semar.

THE ONN - 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT'

Gays are all sick, immoral perverts.

In light of the recent ph to beg repealg, "Don't ask, Don't tell, " the law banng gays the ary, the Onn News Network is takg a look back at a report they aired a year ago examg a ls talked about argument for why the ary is reluctant to let gays serve: they're jt "too prec to risk bat. "One general terviewed was blunt: Gay people are different. Unr no circumstanc n we put Ameri's homosexuals Ameri are the only group Ameri left untouched by war.

Notg that the liv of seven soldiers is worth the life of one gay man, the general was also quick to pot out the risk of damage to the gays' "agile psych": Nor should their agile psych be subjected to the horrible sights that occur on the battlefield. WATCH:RelatedgaysedyViodon't ask don't tellThe OnnPopular the CommunyYou May Like. THE MALEBOLGE, NETHER REGIONS OF DARKNESS—Notg the credible rate at which the muny has grown, sourc nfirmed Thursday that Hell, the Endls Kgdom of Misery, is now a boomg haven of gay Week's Most Viral News: July 28, 2023OffEnglishThe Great Abyss, home of the damned, is reportedly habed by some 600 ln nmned homosexual or transgenr souls, a large proportn of s total populatn, and has by many acunts blossomed to an oasis of gay activism and muny events.

LEADG ADVOCY GROUP FOR GAY RIGHTS THE US MILARY SHUTTG DOWN

“I’ve only been here for a few months, but I’ve already fallen love wh , ” said 49-year-old Daniel Elson, addg that he has already beiend hundreds of fellow gay men and women the accursed unrworld, all of whom have weled him wh open arms. “The streets of fire and brimstone are full of so many great fés, rtrants, bakeri, pennt bookstor, and of urse plenty of gay bars and clubs. ”Acrdg to sourc, the ept bowels of Hell have over the past several lennia veloped a thrivg gay muny that is said to rival the lik of the New York Cy neighborhood of Chelsea, San Francis’s Castro District, Soho London, and the Boystown sectn of wh s wi variety of gay-iendly bs, the Unrworld is also home to The 666, a sprawlg, five-story gay nightclub that is reportedly the largt such tablishment ever built.

“It’s jt nice to fally live a place where I don’t feel like an outst or an outsir, ” said Vansa Aldridge, 38, strsg that she has faced absolutely no discrimatn sce she, like all homosexuals and gay sympathizers, was sentenced to an eterny Lucifer’s Den immediately upon her ath. “And all of the other eternally damned homosexuals down here feel the same.

”Hell has been wily celebrated by gay rights lears for s far-reachg acceptance of alternative liftyl, and rints told reporters is credibly mon to see a rabow flag hangg over var shop awngs, r wdows, or atop thron of blood-soaked bon and rottg flh. Addnally, the Inferno’s Gay Pri Para, held every July the Send Circle, is noted for s extravagance and high attendance rate.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

Reports nfirmed that, wh thoands more homosexual souls floodg the Gat of Hell every day, the Chasm of Wickedns and S has tly bee a sanctuary for gays and lbians alike, a feelg proudly shared by a majory of heterosexual lols. “The gay muny has really flourished here, and I have to say, they’ve been great for the place, ” said Nephirem the Malevolent, a 10, 000-year-old, 70-foot-tall motr who has rid hell sce risg om the ash of a smokels flame. The Sacred Band of Theb feated even the SpartansGreek warrrs — artistic image (Image:Artstatn/@Aliaksandr Tryzon)The Sacred Band was an ele ary un om Theb prisg 150 gay upl.

At the Battle of Lctra 371 BC, the 300 gay warrrs led the Theban army agast the Spartan army. The Thebans won and shattered the Spartan ntrol of Greek view on gay warrrsA male uple engagg tercral sex. Depicted on Ancient Greek pottery (Image: Wikimedia Commons)The Thebans believed gay warrrs fought better orr to imprs and protect their lovers.

ONN TAK ON GAYS THE MILARY

If a lover fell durg a battle, his partner would fight even harr to avenge his thoand years ago Ancient Greece, beg gay or lbian was not a crime. In fact, certa suatns, the Greeks even enuraged homosexual boys exchanged romantic favors for the knowledge provid by their olr tutors.

McBrayer discs how valuable homosexuals are, and why we mt never put their liv at risk by allowg them the ary.

'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK COMBAT' SAYS GENERAL

gays. "'98 Homosexual-Recment Drive Nearg Goal" (July 29, 1998)The Onn is famo for trickg a certa percentage of gullible rears to thkg s stori are real.

) One early and noteworthy example: The Wtboro Baptist Church's Fred Phelps, who angrily blogged about this blatantly satiril "homosexual recment drive" as if were real.

Spokpersons for the Natnal Gay & Lbian Recment Task Force announced Monday that more than 288, 000 straights have been nverted to homosexualy sce Jan. "Clearly, the activist homosexual lobby is wng. "Emmonds creded much of the recg succs to the gay lobby's filtratn of Ameri's public schools, where programs promotg the homosexual liftyle are regularly prented to children as young as the rt of the story.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

The Palm Center was stmental rearchg and publicizg the service of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr ary personnel unr "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, " a Defense Department policy stuted 1994 by the Clton admistratn that sought to protect LGBTQ service members om prosecutn and harassment but also prohibed them om enlistg or disclosg their sexual orientatn if they already were the ary.

The center exposed that the Defense Department ployed gay troops to bat, only to fire them on return, and unvered data on the firgs of nearly two dozen Arabic lguists for their sexualy the early 2000s -- a perd when the ary servic were short of need terpreters. Troops and veterans who intified as gay or lbian and ltle unrstandg of their ntributns to the ary servic.