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
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- THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
- GAY U.S. MARE DRAMA FROM NORMAN LEAR A GO AT NETFLIX
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- MARINES LINKED TO GAY PORN
- NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
THIS GAY MARE VET JT MA A MOVIE BASED ON HIS LIFE THE CORPS DURG 'DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL'
Netflix has greenl a drama seri lled 'The Corps,' about a gay teenager who enlists the U.S. Mar cir 1990. * marines gay *
"The Inspectn" is a new feature about a young man who turns his life around the Mare Corps after beg kicked out of the hoe as a teen for beg gay and livg homels for several years.
Bratton lived on the streets for a after beg kicked out of the hoe for beg gay.
GAY U.S. MARE DRAMA FROM NORMAN LEAR A GO AT NETFLIX
* marines gay *
The trailer for Bratton's film brgs a lot of the Mare Corps' re valu, so looks like we n expect a movie that portrays lead character Ellis French's ary experience a posive light spe of the herent problems a gay Mare would have faced that era. Netflix has greenl a seri — which unts the legendary Norman Lear among s executive producers — that will follow a gay teenager who enlists the U. The streamer has orred 10 episos of The Corps, a drama that will follows Cameron Cope (Mil Heizer), a bullied gay teen who jos the Mar wh his straight bt iend, Ray McCaffey (Liam Oh), 1990 — a pre-Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell era when beg gay the ary uld mean jail time or worse.
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.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE 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. " 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.
Gay people were only acceptable, effect, to the gree to which they uld succsfully masquera as nongay.
Seventeen years which gay servicemen have existed a paradoxil kd of herworld.
MARINES LINKED TO GAY PORN
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.
NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
"Air Force #2 (senr airman, three years): "No one at my job would ever, ever spect that I was gay at all.
And you’re good at your job—a gay person wouldn’t be good at his job, so obvly you’re not gay. You’re a Mare, you don’t md gettg dirty, gog out to the field and not showerg for weeks at a, if you were gay, when you have to shower wh all the other guys you’d get all exced.
You’re not gettg exced so you’re clearly not gay. I mean, if you want to hi, the Mare Corps is one of the bt plac to do that, bee nobody wants to adm they are standg next to a gay guy.