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Contents:

• ACCINTAL 'I LOVE YOU' DERAILED GAY NAVY SEAL'S CAREER
• THE U.S. NAVY HAS CHRISTENED A SHIP NAMED AFTER SLA GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK
• US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK

ACCINTAL 'I LOVE YOU' DERAILED GAY NAVY SEAL'S CAREER

For those who do not know or unsure, LGBTQ+ stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, though some add qutng.

Gays and lbians have served the ary and the Navy sce their ceptn. Servg as openly gay was only possible wh the end of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy 2011. 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.

Milk beme the first openly gay person elected to public office California 1977 wh his electn to San Francis's Board of Supervisors.

THE U.S. NAVY HAS CHRISTENED A SHIP NAMED AFTER SLA GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK

Gay Male Body Chapter TwoIn the Navy, or, "All We Want Is a Few Good Men""Homosexualy" also received a lot of reprentatn at the begng of the century.

His re-workg of the 1920's naval quiry to homosexual activy Newport, Rho Island, prents wh a betiful troductn to -existg, petg disurs of sexualy.

An analysis of the disurs reveals several key terms that, not surprisgly, tie to morn reprentatns of the gay male body. (They are, effect, hegemonic terms, much like the stctured and stcturg gay male narrative of porn. To the prits, homosexualy hged on actual sexual behavr, not terms of disurse shared between the two unrstandgs of sexualy are genr and class.

US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK

Chncey tak great pas to pot out that a medil disurse had been available for forty years which placed homosexualy, not as a phishable crime or as a s to which all were sceptible, but as ngenal to the person (a relatively more posive disurse, eventhough remends medil treatment as if for a birth fect). Hudson, a doctor who was also supervised the ys, engaged the medil material "only after he beme ncerned that the ys might be held legally culpable for their homosexual activy. (What is trigug here is that Chncey mak no mentn of the prithood's posn on the medil disurse of homosexualy.

One might assume that posng same-sex ntact as the abomatn would preclu g an argument which allows homosexual sire to be curable. In this history of disurse, two very different notns of what nstuted sexualy, and homosexualy particular, domated Newport, even when more disurs were available. In the next sectn, I rry this sense of the plexy of disurse back to a readg of the inography of to Chapter One: Disurse and ImageContue to Chapter Three: Readg the Gay Male BodyBack to Grenl's ScribblgTo the Back PorchComments?

This was 2002, nearly a before the end of Don't Ask Don't Tell, and a time when servg openly any service as homosexual was forbidn. Jon said he had known he was gay sce he was 6-years-old and had jt cid to risk keepg the secret orr to serve wh one of the most ele ary forc the those three words jt about did him .

""Brett Jon served his untry honorably, " Navy spokperson Greg Raelson told ABC News rponse to a requt for ment for this ' SEAL team quickly found out, and though Jon said the special operatns world is "ultra-mascule" and apt to pat the gay muny a negative light, actually most of his teammat were supportive. "RELATED: Gay NFL Prospect Michael Sam Gets Whe Hoe Shout-OutsJon eventually nnected wh SLDN, the associatn for actively servg LGBT ary personnel, who lled on the help of a Washgton, D.

Brandon Webb, managg edor at and a former SEAL om the same Basic Unrwater Demoln/SEAL class as Jon, wrote on the webse that he had no ia Jon was gay at the time, but didn't matter. "And while policians and relig fanatics ma a fs about gays servg the ary, the men and women proudly served their untry silence, and earned the rpect of their peers until DADT was eventually repealed… I am proud to ll [Jon] my iend.