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:
- A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- BT GAY ROMANCE TIM OF WAR
- LETTERS REVEAL THE STORI OF GAY SOLDIERS WORLD WARS
A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
* gay war stories *
Larry Sanrs wr about servg the army, where he uld have been arrted for beg gay durg a very unpopular war.
The day Larry Sanrs registered for the draft, one qutn buried the middle of a long qutnnaire smacked him the face: “Do you intify as a homosexual or ever had sexual feelgs for persons of the same sex? At the time Sanrs registered for the draft 1967, no one was clear about what happened to someone who admted beg gay.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
When I registered for the draft jt a few years later, I was told not to say I was gay, bee they would make you prove .
How do someone not datg anyone “prove” they’re gay? He didn’t really intify as homosexual. And as a gay soldier, he didn’t particularly relate to those who served wh him.
And what about beg a gay soldier an army that forba ? The are the voic explag what has been like to be a gay man1 the Amerin ary over the prev seventy or so years, om World War II veterans their late eighti to young servicemen on active duty.
BT GAY ROMANCE TIM OF WAR
Life Today as a Gay ServicemanHow we got here: In 1992, many people thought that the discrimatn was nearly over.
LETTERS REVEAL THE STORI OF GAY SOLDIERS WORLD WARS
"I remember beg the Castro, " says John Forrett (army rerve, 1987–99), "and watchg the TV at a bar wh some iends, watchg Al Gore and Bill Clton swearg that if they beme the tag team for Ameri they were gog to get rid of the harassment of gays and lbians servg the ary.