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• US ARY IS POSTG GAY PRI RABOWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR PRI MONTH – HERE ARE THE PICS
• NOW THE U.S. ARMY? FORCE PUTS OUT LL FOR SOLDIERS A WOKE RECMENT AD FEATURG GAY WEDDG
• U.S. ARMY CARTOON RECMENT AD INCLUS GAY PRI MARCH AND LBIAN ‘WEDDG’
• VIO: US ARMY RELEAS RECMENT VIO DISPLAYG GAY MARRIAGE
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

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

— N6 (@SignHexa) May 12, 2021 The CIA has released a siar seri of recment ads over the last several months as part of a seri dubbed “Humans of CIA, ” cludg ads featurg an agent who scribed herself as a “cisgenr lennial, ” a man who “[grew] up gay a small Southern town, ” and a bld employee who talks about the agency’s ph to “create a more clive environment.

NOW THE U.S. ARMY? FORCE PUTS OUT LL FOR SOLDIERS A WOKE RECMENT AD FEATURG GAY WEDDG

”The Army has been makg a staed effort to appeal to more diverse groups recent years, wh LGBT+, ethnic mory groups, and women remag severely unrreprented wh s ranks, particularly high-level om 2011 have openly gay, lbian, and bisexual people been permted to serve the US ary. The US Army is has taken a new approach to their recg advertisg, wh a new ad featurg a gay weddg and protts. 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.

U.S. ARMY CARTOON RECMENT AD INCLUS GAY PRI MARCH AND LBIAN ‘WEDDG’

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 Even 2011, after lawmakers repealed the directive, the repeal only ensured gay, lbian and bisexual troops uld openly serve.

“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.

VIO: US ARMY RELEAS RECMENT VIO DISPLAYG GAY MARRIAGE

Scroll down for vio The ad shows an animated Corporal Emma Malonelord (pictured) attendg a gay rights para The Army's new recment ad chroniclg the life of Corporal Emma Malonelord featur an animated pictn of a gay rights march (pictured) The new Army ad shows Corporal Emma Malonelord's mother's gettg married after one suffered ser juri followg a r accint The animated recment vio chronicl Malonelord's life om her childhood up until she jos the Army as a Patrt Missile operator. The young rporal also attends a gay rights para and says she's been fendg eedom sce a young age wh her participatn the event. “Growg up gay a small Southern town, I was lucky to have a wonrful and acceptg fay.

The animated US Army ad tells the story of Corporal Emma Malonelord, who was raised by a lbian uple San Francis, and was spired to serve a untry that fends gay rights. The US Army recently released a recment ad that displayed gay marriag, protts, and more.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them. I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier. A new vio om “The Callg” seri echo recent CIA’s “Humans of CIA” efforts featurg an “tersectnal” officer and a gay man who feared “I may not be able to discs my personal life at work.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

Tammy Smh, the ary’s hight-rankg openly gay officer, me out 2012, she has tried beg an example of livg thentilly while also beg a bean of visibily to other Soldiers and their fai.

The policy banned lbians, gay men and bisexuals om servg the ary.