Jo as we celebrate Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr (LGBT) Sailors and their important ntributns to the fense of our natn.,
Contents:
- THIS VETERAN'S JOB WAS DISCHARGG GAY SAILORS IN THE NAVY — BUT HE HAD A SECRET
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
THIS VETERAN'S JOB WAS DISCHARGG GAY SAILORS IN THE NAVY — BUT HE HAD A SECRET
<b>From a closeted gay sailor who typed the dishonorable discharg for Korean War servicemen acced of homosexualy, to a lbian rrectively raped by Mar while servg Dert Storm, the are the stori of LGBT veterans and their s-long fight for equaly the armed forc.</b> * gay sailors in the navy *
Article 125 often applied discharge proceedgs of gay service members. 14 tablish a policy of mandatory discharge for service members who attempt to engage a homosexual act. 7316 for the first Gay and Lbian Pri Month.
8387 for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month. DoD LGBTQ+ Timele: This timele not signifint events and polici chronologil orr that had a signifint impact on Department of Defense (DoD) polici, stctns, or orrs as they relate to the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny. Throughout 1952, Otto Bremerman sat at his ary sk the personnel office of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, typg up dishonorable discharg for sailors who had been acced of homosexualy.
He knew that the sailors had selflsly taken on the same risks as their heterosexual unterparts to serve their untry durg the Korean War, but bee they were gay, they would now suffer the nsequenc of dishonorable discharge for the rt of their liv.
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 * gay sailors in the navy *
Wh each keystroke, Bremerman was remd of his own vulnerabily — he was a gay Amerin himself, hidg his inty a untry unwillg to accept his open many stat, om Bremerman’s time until current day, a dishonorable discharge is treated as a felony. ” Dpe his prer posn of thory, Bremerman seized every opportuny available to secretly warn sailors acced of homosexualy before they nfsed. ”After a few weeks on the naval base, Bremerman disvered a bar scene brimmg wh gay men.
He now knew for certa that he was gay, but until he had his first sexual experience wh a man, he still assumed that this was a temporary phase and when he left the service he would move back home, marry a woman, and have children.
From then on I knew I was gog to be gay, forever and ever, ” he said, lghg. In a Senate mtee report released the midst of Cold War hysteria over the threat of Communist filtratn, homosexualy was characterized as a morally praved danger to natnal secury on the grounds that homosexuals were more vulnerable to extortn for nfintial rmatn by foreign agents.