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
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.
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TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
* gay sailors in the navy *
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.