After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement.
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- GAYS THE U.S. MILARY ARE NOW PROTECTED AGAST 'WCH HUNTS'
- LEADG ADVOCY GROUP FOR GAY RIGHTS THE US MILARY SHUTTG DOWN
GAYS THE U.S. MILARY ARE NOW PROTECTED AGAST 'WCH HUNTS'
The announcement that gays will be protected om discrimatn the ary mak clear the old guard has lost the culture war. * gay rights military *
“Gay” ed to be one too, or at least was when “homosexual” was the monly-ed term.
But Tuday’s announcement by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter that gays and lbians will be protected om discrimatn by the Pentagon’s equal-opportuny policy mak clear the Pentagon’s Old Guard has lost the culture war. Talk about change: ls than a generatn ago, troops were vtigated if manrs spected they were gay.
In fact, superrs often lnched what were lled “wch hunts” to fd gay troops and boot them out of the service. “Discrimatn of any kd has no place Ameri’s armed forc, ” Carter said at a Pentagon ceremony celebratg June as “Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Pri Month. It as Carter weighs remendg his openly gay chief of staff, former Air Force unrsecretary Eric Fanng, to replace outgog Army Secretary John McHugh.
LEADG ADVOCY GROUP FOR GAY RIGHTS THE US MILARY SHUTTG DOWN
It’s hard to overstate how far this bate has e sce printial ndidate Bill Clton clared 1992 that openly gay men and women should be permted to serve uniform. They were reflectg the views of many of their troops: “At the Mare Corps ball, ” one Mare wonred, “will we see homosexual upl dancg and kissg? “There’s gog to be a lot of men overboard” bee heterosexuals won’t tolerate gays workg alongsi them aboard ship, warned a sailor om the rrier USS John F.
Add a female sailor aboard a sub tenr: “There’s gog to be a lot of problems—a lot of personal juri, if not aths—agast gays and lbians.
” The sre tactics worked for a natn uncerta about the wisdom of tegratg gays to a tradn-bound culture like the U.