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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- US ARY ALLOWED TO WEAR UNIFORMS AT GAY PRI MARCH
- U.S. ALLOWS UNIFORMED ACTIVE DUTY ARY TO MARCH GAY PRI PARA
- US ARY MEMBERS MARCH FULL UNIFORM AT SAN DIEGO GAY PRI PARA
- US DEFENSE MEMO: MILARY MEMBERS CAN WEAR UNIFORMS GAY PRI PARA
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- RABOW FLAGS WILL NOT BE FLOWN ON ARY BAS FOR GAY PRI MONTH, PENTAGON SAYS
- GAYS THE MILARY
US ARY ALLOWED TO WEAR UNIFORMS AT GAY PRI MARCH
US service personnel n wear uniform at a gay pri march for the first time, after last year's endg of a ban on openly gay people the ary. * military uniform gay *
Image ptn, US ary personnel took part the San Diego march last year - but whout uniformThe US ary will for the first time allow s members to wear uniform at a gay pri permissn was granted for the Gay Pri Para San Diego, California, on Saturday, a ary-wi Pentagon directive memo said the move was a one-off exceptn for this year's march after a longstandg ban on openly gay people servg the US ary - known as "don't ask, don't tell" - was end last year. 'Giant leap'Dwayne Crenshaw, executive director of San Diego LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr) Pri, said he was lighted by the move.
"Unr "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), tablished 1993, gay people uld serve the ary only if they did not openly acknowledge their sexualy. The permissn was granted for the Gay Pri Para San Diego, California, on Saturday, a ary-wi Pentagon directive said.
It after a longstandg ban on openly gay people servg the US ary – known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” – was end last year. Now, this strik me as bizarre bee ’s at furtherance wh longstandg DOD polici havg nothg to do wh gays the ary, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, or related ntroversi. FILED UNDER: Genr Issu, Milary Affairs, US Polics, BBC, California, Civil Rights, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Employment, gays the ary, Pentagon, Regulatns, Steve Hynd, Tea Party, the 1960s, US Navy.
U.S. ALLOWS UNIFORMED ACTIVE DUTY ARY TO MARCH GAY PRI PARA
The Department of Defense, a first-of-s-kd move, will allow active duty members of all branch of the U.S. ary to don their service uniforms while marchg an upg San Diego gay pri para, event anizers said on Thursday. * military uniform gay *
Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water.
"Lbian, gay, and bisexual ary personnel had been servg our untry for s whout receivg equal protectn, while transgenr troops are still prohibed om servg openly. Right there, prted black and whe the Uniform Co of Milary Jtice,, I gus along wh the Mar wholeheartedly welg s gay jarheads, some progrs marks n be award. REUTERS/Mike BlakeThe move, nfirmed an ternal fense memo, marks the first time the ary has granted such blanket permissn sce the September repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, unr which gay dividuals were allowed to serve the ary only if they did not divulge their sexual orientatn.
US ARY MEMBERS MARCH FULL UNIFORM AT SAN DIEGO GAY PRI PARA
The Uned Stat ary stggled wh s stance on gay service members for s prr to the signg of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” 1993 by former Print Bill Clton., * military uniform gay *
“We are hopeful that those who have feared g to share the joy of Pri out of ncern for losg their ary reers will be able to fally celebrate their full and plete selv, ” San Diego LGBT Pri said a the past, only armed servic veterans, not those on active duty, were allowed to wear their uniforms at gay pri paras. ”FIRST GAY MARRIAGE ON MILITARY BASEThe approval for active service members of the Army, Mare Corps, Navy and Air Force to participate the gay pri para uniform is the latt of a strg of ton followg the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
US DEFENSE MEMO: MILARY MEMBERS CAN WEAR UNIFORMS GAY PRI PARA
The U.S. Department of Defense gave permissn Thursday for all service members participatg San Diego's Gay Pri Para this Saturday to march uniform for the first time history. Christian chaplas the ary prevly said that the DoD's recent regnn of Gay Pri Month ls than a year after the repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) is the new "stark realy" that behavr once nsired by the ary as grounds for urt martial is now celebrated. * military uniform gay *
Ary celebrated gay pri month at the Pentagon for the first time last month, an event that other feral agenci like the CIA had been celebratg for June, active-duty Air Force Technil Sergeant Erwynn Umali married his civilian partner Will Behrens on the McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst jot ary base New Jersey. The Gallup pollg anizatn said a recent survey that half of Amerin adults are now favor of gay May, Print Barack Obama said he believ same-sex upl should be allowed to marry, and the natn’s largt civil rights group, the NAACP, later endorsed gay marriage, sayg the fight for gay rights was a civil rights issue.
The Uned Stat ary stggled wh s stance on gay service members for s prr to the signg of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” 1993 by former Print Bill Clton. “No longer will our untry be nied the service of thoands of patrtic Amerins who were forced to leave the ary – regardls of their skills, no matter their bravery or their zeal, no matter their years of exemplary performance – bee they happen to be gay, ” said former Print Barack Obama. Prr to World War II, there were no official laws banng homosexual persons the ary, however, there were laws place agast homosexual acts.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
Milary psychiatrists theorized that heterosexual mal uld participate homosexual acts while alg wh the strs of war due to the lack of ‘normal’ sexual outlets war-torn areas. To protect Ameri’s servicemen om the ‘threat’ of homosexual men wh their ranks, the ary created more -pth physil and psychologil screengs of potential ary members. The ary doctors believed that homosexualy uld be tected the physil featur and mannerisms of men and would dismiss recs who displayed the characteristics.
“When was ascertaed that the basis of the maladjtment was homosexualy and this was reported to the dividual’s mandg officer, the subject ually received a ‘blue’ discharge, ” said Lt. Gay ary members no longer need to fear that their learship learng of their sexual orientatn will e them to lose chanc at promotn and advancement their reers. Although was disapproved prev s, beg a gay member of the ary has never been safer or more protected than is now.
RABOW FLAGS WILL NOT BE FLOWN ON ARY BAS FOR GAY PRI MONTH, PENTAGON SAYS
Gay servicemen and women are protected unr the same laws as any other person and offered the same opportuni to excel and live wh a cent qualy of life whout fear of stroyg their reers.
“That is why I say to all Amerins, gay or straight, who want nothg more than to fend this untry uniform: Your untry needs you, your untry wants you, and we will be honored to wele you to the ranks of the ft ary the world has ever known, ” stated Obama. ”A earlier, the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” allowed gays and lbians to serve openly after centuri of hidg, persecutn and dishonorable, we salute some of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer service members who paved the way for a more clive force.
GAYS THE MILARY
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