I jt really wanted to know kd of experienc you had as a Gay man the Milary or Navy?Also your experience what Branch has the most Gay guys ?I am sure we would love to hear your ...
Contents:
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- BT GAY MILARY
- A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
- I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.
- SO ANY GAY GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN THE MILARY OR NAVY POST HERE?
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
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 * military gay stories *
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. Life Today as a Gay ServicemanHow we got here: In 1992, many people thought that the discrimatn was nearly over.
BT GAY MILARY
"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.
A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
" Gay people were allowed the ary but only as long as they didn’t reveal their sexualy; to facilate this, all members of the ary were also prohibed om quirg about anyone’s possible orientatn.
I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.
Gay people were only acceptable, effect, to the gree to which they uld succsfully masquera as nongay.
SO ANY GAY GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN THE MILARY OR NAVY POST HERE?
Seventeen years which gay servicemen have existed a paradoxil kd of herworld.
Servicemen were advised that until then the policy would still apply, and that they uld potentially face s sanctns if they intify themselv publicly as gay.
’ "Air Force #1: "Two of my iends were disvered, both officers—’s a long and arduo procs for an officer to get kicked out for beg gay. "Air Force #2 (senr airman, three years): "No one at my job would ever, ever spect that I was gay at all.