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• US ARY IS POSTG GAY PRI RABOWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR PRI MONTH – HERE ARE THE PICS
• HOW AN ARMY VETERAN SIGNED THE INIC SYMBOL OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY PRI AWARENS RIBBON P
• RABOW FLAGS WILL NOT BE FLOWN ON ARY BAS FOR GAY PRI MONTH, PENTAGON SAYS

US ARY IS POSTG GAY PRI RABOWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR PRI MONTH – HERE ARE THE PICS

Leonard Matlovich, who stood agast the ban on homosexuals the ary. Army Rerve, participat a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer panel discsn June 24, 2021.

WASHINGTON -- Soldiers reprentg the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny virtually celebrated Pri Month Thursday as part of a discsn that marked another step the Army’s growg regnn toward the LGBTQ muny. Every June, Pri Month is a natnal observance that is held to memorate the Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan, New York, 1969, a historic tippg pot wh the gay liberatn movement to empower all LGBTQ Amerins.

The directive was a promise measure that barred LGBTQ-intifyg persons om ary service, but also prohibed ary personnel om discrimatg agast, or harassg, closeted gay and lbian troops. Even 2011, after lawmakers repealed the directive, the repeal only ensured gay, lbian and bisexual troops uld openly serve.

HOW AN ARMY VETERAN SIGNED THE INIC SYMBOL OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

“I was explicly asked on my [enlistment] forms: Are you gay? Tammy Smh participate a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer panel discsn June 24, 2021. “I didn’t know whether the two uld align: me beg gay and servg the Army, ” he said.

Throughout the Army’s history, brave lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Soldiers and civilians have served and fought for our natn.

Army Map Service, was fired and banned om feral employment 1957 bee he was gay. Tammy Smh beme the first openly gay U.

GAY PRI AWARENS RIBBON P

Sce the repeal of DoD’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy 2011, homosexual service members have served openly, wh honor and tegry the U. Naval Hospal Rota Spa posted a Pri graphic created by the Milary Health System, and said, “The Defense Health Agency (DHA) regniz the work of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins tablishg a ee natn that valu diversy, a val ponent of a ee natn. Every year June, ci around the world honor the gay muny wh events celebratg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri Month.

RABOW FLAGS WILL NOT BE FLOWN ON ARY BAS FOR GAY PRI MONTH, PENTAGON SAYS

While today, the symbol of the gay muny — the rabow flag — is universally regnizable, would not have existed whout one Army veteran, Gilbert Baker, who found himself statned San Francis at the begng of the gay rights movement 1970.

In a documentary lled “The Gay Betsy Ross, ” Baker says he bought his first sewg mache and tght himself how to sew so he uld make his own cloth, the style of his fashn in, David Bowie. In 1974, Baker met gay civil rights activist and polician, Harvey Milk, and the two veloped a close iendship, acrdg to a San Francis Travel article. Milk challenged Baker to e up wh a symbol that would reprent the gay pri muny stead of the pk triangle, which was once a symbol ed by Nazis to intify and persecute homosexuals.

Each lor reprented the valu held by the gay muny: pk stood for sexualy, red for life, orange for healg, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art, digo for harmony, and vlet for the human spir. Ne years after the Stonewall rts New York Cy that lnched the gay rights movement, and eight years after the first gay pri march, the LGBT muny fally had s lors. The rabow flag flew the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para on June 25, 1978.