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:
- THE NAVY GAVE A GAY MAN A HOME—AND A ‘BAD PAPER’ DISCHARGE THAT HNTED HIM FOR DES
- RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
THE NAVY GAVE A GAY MAN A HOME—AND A ‘BAD PAPER’ DISCHARGE THAT HNTED HIM FOR DES
The first gay man I met was at the aid statn loted Dong Ha near the DMZ.
We were noticed, and maybe regnized as gay, but no one bothered .
The OSI man said he wanted nam and ranks of other homos I knew, and that I was gog to have to subm to more tailed qutng by other agents. A shipmate Vietnam, David Monarch, had been arrted for beg gay and removed om the ship.
RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
I never learned how and why, but 1960s Ameri, we gay men served to die, acrdg to popular thkg. Was the harassment for beg gay?
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
All I knew was that I hated beg gay and that I felt like I didn’t serve to live.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
I was first treated wh strong psychotropic dgs and kept a padd cell to protect the other patients om the “homosexual. ” Later, I was released to the general populatn but kept on dgs wh regular terviews and discsns wh a ary psychologist, all to treat my homosexualy rather than the PTSD I’d suffered bee of the war, which remaed undiagnosed. On my Milary Separatn Paper DD214 were three s: #265, unsuabily bee of a character disorr; #256, admissn of beg a homosexual, acceptance of discharge li of board actn and punishment; and a re-enlistment of RE4, unsuable for ary service.
For gay and lbian people, the discharge has signatns showg you as a crimal for many s. Surround by killg, we gay men need to protect our mds, and strengthen one another. It took four years, the help of a young gay psychologist at the VA Hospal and a high-powered legal team, and changed my life.