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Contents:
- WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- GAY SAILOR
WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
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Gay bars ports around the world mirrored this, as did the spread of the queer language Polari (a way to speak openly and whout overtly crimatg yourself). Gertler lived near Hampstead Heath om the wter of 1914–1915 – how nsc was he that the landspe he pated here was heavily d gay male sexualy?
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
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 * are sailors gay *
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TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
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GAY SAILOR
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I feared I would be rejected by people I once was iends wh, terrified that the learship above me would look at me as ls of a man, or that any acplishment I have will be attributed to me beg gay, and not my mer. Their excln om service and s remembrance for much of the 20th century have left a dark unrbelly of misogyny, racism and homophobia.