As "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to an end, we sent Chris Heath to terview dozens of gay servicemen om the past and prent to fd out what life was really like as Ameri's ary stggled wh s last great inty crisis
Contents:
- MILARY NU PHOTO VTIGATN EXPANDS TO GAY PORN WEBS
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
MILARY NU PHOTO VTIGATN EXPANDS TO GAY PORN WEBS
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Has such homoerotic ary ruals.
For one, the ary is an tensely homoerotic place.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
Many straight, gay and bisexual men have said that the shared showers, latr and changg areas; the pent-up horns and need for sexual exprsn all make the ary a place that awakens same-sex sire. Th, homoerotic iatn ruals allow servicemembers to flict the ab they’ve endured and also tt new members’ willgns to subm to tradn and group-thk whout succumbg to emotn or “stctive” homosexual sir. Jane Ward, thor of Not Gay: Sex between Straight Whe Men, says that the thkg surroundg the ruals is, “If you endure together this kd of mortifyg, huiatg and embarrassg homosexual act, then that not only toughens up your body, but will also build and strengthen that bond around you.
ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
That sounds like toxic heterocentrist mascule bullsh to , but here’s five homoerotic ary ruals we’ve heard of all the same:.
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
There’s a th (perhaps nonexistent) le between the homoerotic ary ruals and hazg, sexual asslt and rape.