Soldiers reprentg the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny virtually celebrated Pri Month Thursday
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- ARMY TO AWARD “THE GAY IS OK” RIBBON TO ENTIRE FORCE
- 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
ARMY TO AWARD “THE GAY IS OK” RIBBON TO ENTIRE FORCE
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Army to Award “The Gay is OK” Ribbon To Entire Force.
– In an effort to undo the negative fluence of more than 100 years of bigotry, harassment, timidatn, and fear of homosexuals s ranks, the Army announced yterday that every Soldier will be issued, and required to wear, the new Personnel Ribbon Diversy Experience, known more lloquially as “The Gay is OK” ribbon. Award after succsfully pletg mandatory “sexual orientatn and re-orientatn” trag basic trag, the ribbon monstrat “a clear mment to rightg past wrongs, prervg prent power, and ensurg the future legimacy” of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer muny wh the Army, said Rggold durg an terview his Pentagon office.
US ARY IS POSTG GAY PRI RABOWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR PRI MONTH – HERE ARE THE PICS
“We have always been ‘OK wh the gay, ’” said Army Corporal Alan Miller, a native of Mobile, Alabama.
You don’t thk we managed to piece together who was gay all that time? “This whole Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal thg was a non-issue for , bee we me to terms wh gays our ranks sometime around… October 2001, when we cid we had more important thgs to worry about, like stoppg AQ om blowg the sh out of our untry aga. People thk that bee most of the Army’s enlisted members e om the ral South, and that we’re predomantly Christian, that somehow we n’t work wh our ras who are gay.
“I’m not gay, I don’t want to be gay, I thk I have a grand total of maybe two gay iends. My relig beliefs are important to me, and they say homosexualy is a s.
HOW AN ARMY VETERAN SIGNED THE INIC SYMBOL OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
I don’t like (homosexualy), ’s not for me, but that don’t make patible wh ary service. While tolerant of homosexualy and other alternative liftyl, some Soldiers qutn why the Army is sudnly givg out an award for basilly jt beg a cent human beg.
Addnally, the thor isn’t gay, or a “gay ally” or even a liberal. He’s jt someone who thks ’s ridiculo that “the gays” is still an issue.
Leonard Matlovich, who stood agast the ban on homosexuals the ary. 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.