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It's been 10 years sce Print Obama moved to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Joseph Patton was discharged om the the Navy for beiendg gay men, before openly gay Amerins uld serve.

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THIS VETERAN'S JOB WAS DISCHARGG GAY SAILORS IN THE NAVY — BUT HE HAD A SECRET

<b>From a closeted gay sailor who typed the dishonorable discharg for Korean War servicemen acced of homosexualy, to a lbian rrectively raped by Mar while servg Dert Storm, the are the stori of LGBT veterans and their s-long fight for equaly the armed forc.</b> * gay navy sailor *

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NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW

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Prr to the 1990s, dividuals were not explicly prohibed by law om servg, but that did not stop all branch of the ary om dischargg service members for engagg homosexual acts or om screeng spected homosexuals upon enlistment.

The prence the ary environment of persons who engage homosexual nduct or who, by their statements, monstrate a propensy to engage homosexual nduct, serly impairs the acplishment of the ary missn. Ross Ben, “How Excln From the Milary Strengthened Gay Inty Ameri, ” Rollg Stone, Sam Deloach Collectn, Veterans History Project, Amerin Folklife Center, Library of Congrs.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS

From hirg men to entrap civilians to imprisong gay sailors for years, the Navy earned s reputatn for homophobia. * gay navy sailor *

Throughout 1952, Otto Bremerman sat at his ary sk the personnel office of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, typg up dishonorable discharg for sailors who had been acced of homosexualy.

He knew that the sailors had selflsly taken on the same risks as their heterosexual unterparts to serve their untry durg the Korean War, but bee they were gay, they would now suffer the nsequenc of dishonorable discharge for the rt of their liv.

A GAY VETERAN REMEMBERS SERVG IN SILENCE

Wh each keystroke, Bremerman was remd of his own vulnerabily — he was a gay Amerin himself, hidg his inty a untry unwillg to accept his open many stat, om Bremerman’s time until current day, a dishonorable discharge is treated as a felony. He now knew for certa that he was gay, but until he had his first sexual experience wh a man, he still assumed that this was a temporary phase and when he left the service he would move back home, marry a woman, and have children.

PAROLE NIED FOR MAN WHO MURRED GAY SAILOR 1992

In a Senate mtee report released the midst of Cold War hysteria over the threat of Communist filtratn, homosexualy was characterized as a morally praved danger to natnal secury on the grounds that homosexuals were more vulnerable to extortn for nfintial rmatn by foreign agents.

SAILOR'S KILLER 'DISGUSTED' BY GAYS

Stripped of their livelihoods, shamed, and facg potential lastg unemployment, an unknown number of outed gay and lbian feral employe mted suici shortly after they were damagg homophobic stereotyp that solidified durg this perd of history persisted until the 1960s, when the LGBT muny began to fight back. [They would] grow up to bee doctors and lawyers, civil rights advot, and…homosexuals, ” he add wh a said he and his bt iend Charlie me out to each other on Long Island after sneakg to the 1964 World’s Fair wh a group of iends. ”Sala says the therapist uldn’t fd a psychologil ratnale to expla his homosexualy, so the therapist attempted to persua him that he had been molted as a child and didn’t remember.

While servg silence durg that perd, many members of the armed forc were verbally huiated, tortured, or raped bee of their real or perceived homosexualy, and now suffer om bilatg mental illns such as prsn, anxiety, and post-trmatic strs livg the barracks at Camp Pendleton, Evelyn Thomas, the Dert Storm veteran, said that her roommat broke to her locker and stole a letter om her mother, which mentned a woman Thomas was datg. This diaspora ntued throughout future tim of war; the San Francis Bay Area quickly beme known as the “gay mec” of the Uned Stat for s vibrant and polilly active gay muny.

GAY AND BEG A 'SAILOR'

“It’s heart-achg work, but fulfillg work, ” said endurg stutnalized homophobia through three difficult tours of Iraq, Sala says his exposure to opprsn has transformed the nature of his patrtism.

In an effort to honor one gay veteran’s legacy, Stolakis ma Otto Bremerman’s divid allegiance to his untry and his sexualy the foc of her documentary The Typist, which she filmed while earng her MFA at Stanford Universy. “Readg about Bremerman and the way he was able to shg off the homophobia and live a really happy and full life San Francis felt almost like a foil for my uncle, who eply ternalized the transphobia and was never able to live his life as an out transgenr person, ” said Stolakis. On Memorial Day, gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr veterans reflect not only on the honorable sacrifice of Ameri’s fallen soldiers, but also on the fear, disrpect, and abe they endured while servg their untry.

The long history of discrimatn agast LGBT service members spans wars and generatns, takg forms rangg om homophobic remarks and dishonorable discharge to rape, torture, and memorate the long history of LGBT service the ary, the Natnal LGBT Veterans Memorial Project is currently fundraisg to build a memorial at the Congrsnal Cemetery Washgton, D.

NAVY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW

”The pleted memorial will ri near the grave of Leonard Matlovich, a gay war hero who beme a revolutnary lear the gay rights movement after he was discharged om the Air Force the early 1970s. 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.

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