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I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them. I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier.
“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP. Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology. Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology.
"The seri also featur a gay storyle via Sid, an Indian-Amerin jock who is tryg to figure out his sexualy while beg a part of the toxic, overly hetero, and mascule environment that is the Grand Army swim team. '"He ntued:"My olr brother is gay and I have known that for a very long time and like my head I was like, 'I know everythg about this. Ahead of today’s global lnch of Grand Army on Netflix, The Queer Review’s edor Jam Klemann spoke exclively wh Amir Bageria about takg on the role of Sid, the rearch he did cludg talkg to his olr brother who is gay about g out, and his love for Brokeback Mounta and Frank Ocean.
AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
One of the thgs that stck me is that the high school is set up as not beg a homophobic environment, bee there’s a bisexual character who’s already out and we see that he’s largely accepted, so seems like Sid’s reluctance to e out is more to do wh thgs gog on his own life, faial expectatns and maybe his own feelgs about beg gay. My olr brother is gay and my parents are the bt, they’re lerally my number one fans and I love them wh all my heart, and they were so amazg at beg as acceptg as they possibly uld be wh my brother.
“And as far as g out, there’s a scene on Master of None, where one character out and her mom starts cryg and she’s sentially sayg ‘You’re already Ain Amerin, you’re a woman, and now you’re gog to add gay on top of that?! A iend of me grew up playg hockey and he me out as gay a b later his life, and I jt asked them if their experience was siar to Sid’s and if they had any not or dos and don’ts, and jt basilly what advice they uld give me on that.
The tertg thg is a lot of the people that I talked to personally had weirdly posive experienc, they didn’t have a lot negatively to say about g out which is a ttament I gus to the environment that we grew up , but was still tertg to hear each dividual experience of maybe not the most dramatic ways that beg gay effected them but ltle microsms that you should be pickg up on. His biggt dream is gettg to Harvard and he has been workg his whole life to make is a Canadian actor known for his role as Baaz Nahir Degrassi: Next Johnson as Jayson JacksonJayson is a sophomore at Grand Army and an avid jazz saxophone player.