Ameri's Gay Sweethearts

Contents:

• UNTLED@CISGTHEMIMONFOLLOWPOSTSLIKFOLLOWGCISGTHEMIMONFOLLOWAMERI’S GAY MEN WW2
• A GUY ITALIAN GAY.
• ALL AMERIN GAY
• AMERI'S GAY SWEETHEARTS

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Ameri’s Gay Men WW2World War Two was a “Natnal Comg Out” for queer Amerins. From his first act of bravery the movement grew and by the 1920s Berl had more gay bars than Manhattan did the 1980s. They were a century ahead of the rt of the Nazis ma Hirschfeld - Socialist, Homosexual and Jew - public enemy number famo image of the Nazis burng books?

As many as 15, 000 were sent to the mps, about 60% were Ameri the war brought a untry where most people never even heard the word “homosexual”, historian John D’e wrote the war was “nducive both to the articulatn of a homosexual inty and to the more rapid evolutn of a gay subculture. Those stori have addnal plexy the story of cisgenr homosexual men do not.

Startg wh gay men lets me beg the simplt way I n, subsequent posts I’ll look at the rt of our muny. If you did see your sexualy or genr ntrary ways you had no words to exprs , odds are even your doctor had never heard the term “Homosexual. Gay men “Droppg ps” wh a handkerchief a specific pocket.

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And that voice, the socialist Harry Hay, did not e durg the war, but would e shortly after directly bee of Get Your Gun… And are you now or ever been a Homosexual? The one across the doctor’s office at a recg the neteenth century queerns moved om an act, “Five me Father I have sned, I kissed another man” to somethg you are, “The homosexual subspeci n be intified by certa physil and psychologil signs.

“Are you a homosexual? Fally if the doctor felt like he uld exame your body to see if you were a member of the homosexual subspeci.

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But for a gay rec the nsequenc uld be life threateng. Medil thori knew homosexuals were weak, crimal and mad.

Thankfully the doctors were not succsful their task, one doctor wrote “for every homosexual who was referred or me to the Medil Department, there were five or ten who never were tected. Hegarty wr, “As a rult of the screeng polici, homosexualy beme part of wartime disurse.

Qutns about homosexual sire and behavr ensured that every man ducted to the armed forc had to nont the possibily of homosexual feelgs or experienc. This was a kd of massive public tn about homosexualy. Dpe—and be-e of—the attempts to elimate homosexuals om the ary, men wh same-sex sir learned that there were many people like themselv (Hegarty 180)”And then gave them a goln opportuny to have 101st Airborn - Homosocial and Homosexual“Homosocial” refers to a genr segregated space.

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And they were often havens for gay men. The YMCA for example really was a place for young gay men to the ernment was already aware of the kd of sndalo sexual behavur young men n get up to when left to themselv. Two major ernment programs before the war, the Feral Transient Program and the Civilian Conservatn Corps foced on unattached young men, but over time the spac beme highly spect and the foc shifted to helpg fay men so as to avoid givg ernment aid to ‘sexual perversn’ the homosocial wh the war on there was no choice but to put hundreds of thoands of young men their own world.

The stereotypil “strong, silent type, ” qutsentially heterosexual, that had characterized the Amerin Man had been replaced wh a new, sensive man who had many of the quali of the homosexual male.