I'm a Gay Army Officer—Queer Troops Mt Fight Back

Contents:

• GAY MENTAL HEALTHRE PROVIRS AND PATIENTS THE MILARY
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
• MILARY HEALTHRE PROVIRS' KNOWLEDGE AND COMFORT REGARDG THE MEDIL CARE OF ACTIVE DUTY LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PATIENTS
• GAYS SEEKG ARY EXEMPTN TURKEY NO LONGER NEED TO PROVI VISUAL PROOF OF THEIR HOMOSEXUALY
• THE NAZI DOCTOR WHO EXPERIMENTED ON GAY PEOPLE – AND BRA HELPED TO PE JTICE
• I WAS GAY THE BRISH ARMY WHEN WAS ILLEGAL. IT DROVE ME TO DRK AND AN ATTEMPT ON MY OWN LIFE

GAY MENTAL HEALTHRE PROVIRS AND PATIENTS THE MILARY

Ary the past , stris are still beg ma to improve acceptance, tegratn and health for gay and transgenr service members. Today, gay and transgenr ary service members enjoy far more rights than they did even five years ago—but the fight ntu to crease visibily and acceptance for this group the armed forc.

Department of Defense (DoD) releas a policy statg that “homosexualy is patible wh ary service. 1988: The rults of a jot report nducted by the DoD and the Defense Personnel Secury Rearch Edutn Center rerce the fdgs of a 1957 report claimg that gay and lbian dividuals enlisted the armed forc pose no signifint risk to secury (which had prevly been the ratnale for barrg gay dividuals om enlistg the ary). 1993: Print Bill Clton signs the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, barrg openly gay and lbian Amerin cizens om ary service—while prohibg harassment of all “closeted” ary service members.

2015: Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announc that the Milary Equal Opportuny policy has been modified to clu gay and lbian service members. 2016: The Senate nfirms Eric Fanng as secretary of the Army, makg him the first openly gay secretary of a U.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

Inclus personal experienc om profsnals who have enuntered rights issu among gay ary service men and women. The only text to offer clil pearls and guil for treatg patients stgglg wh the issue of gay rights the ary. Exam the issu of mental healthre among gay ary personnel the ntext of other psychologil trmas.

This volume tells the history of homosexualy the Uned Stat ary begng 1986, when the issue first me to the foreont of social nscns. Each chapter is wrten through the ey of gay mental healthre provirs, verg how to steadily adapt and learn to treat veterans stgglg wh the trmas associated wh the stigma of homosexualy service.

Unlike any other profsnal book, this text clus the personal stori of gay ary mental healthre provirs, as well as gay civilian clicians who have worked wh the ary populatn var segments history. DADTTransgenr reMental health and boundariExperienc of gay ary psychiatristsHistory of homosexualy the US ary.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

Sce 2011, openly gay, lbian and bisexual men and women have been permted to serve the ary.

It wasn’t until 1982 that the ary enacted a policy explicly banng gay men and lbians om their ranks. And the early 1940s, was classified as a mental illns, disqualifyg gay men and lbians om service. Eighteen years later, Congrs repealed the policy, allowg openly gay, lbian and bisexual people to serve the ary.

MILARY HEALTHRE PROVIRS' KNOWLEDGE AND COMFORT REGARDG THE MEDIL CARE OF ACTIVE DUTY LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PATIENTS

But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them. I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier.

GAYS SEEKG ARY EXEMPTN TURKEY NO LONGER NEED TO PROVI VISUAL PROOF OF THEIR HOMOSEXUALY

Before the amendment, gay men had to endure rectal examatns and provi photographic material of themselv durg terurse to prove their homosexualy.

In 2010, one article the German news magaze Der Spiegel, entled “Porn for the General” (Popp 2010), ed some sensatn bee acced the ary of storg the biggt gay porn llectn Turkey (Hearn, Biricik & Joelsson 2016, 33). To pe a prevailg homophobia and anti-gay vlence the ary, many gay men seek exemptn om ary service on grounds of their homosexualy which is classified a “psychosexual disorr. ” Addnally, they refer to the social stigma surroundg homosexualy Turkey which materializ the “unf report, ” also lled “rotten report, ” that gay men receive after beg discharged.

“gettg this report means that you disclose and document your gay inty […] this means social excln, loss of job opportuni, no chance of beg a public employee, creasg snubs and prsure om your social environment.

THE NAZI DOCTOR WHO EXPERIMENTED ON GAY PEOPLE – AND BRA HELPED TO PE JTICE

Even though provg practic have been amend and now ary doctors evaluate a person’s homosexualy “only” based on his behavr and verbal claratn of beg gay, rectal examatns as a proof of homosexualy offer an sightful se to theoretilly engage wh the qutn of how bodi are done by lotg some kd of proof wh them. By lookg at how gay men Turkey provi and produce photographic evince of themselv durg terurse and unrgo the medil examatn of their anal ton’s elasticy (Çar 2014), I attend to how a specific homosexual body emerg the provg practic. The homosexual body is a certa gree of the anal ton’s elasticy – the medil examatn of the Turkish ary.

“mastectomy necsarily queers women a homophobic world” (Ja 2007, 522), photo creds: Can Ortak. As a rult, a foc on assemblag and enacted ontologi should not oblerate the important work done on how homosexualy has been brought to existence as the “viant Other” medi-scientific disurs (Fouult 1978; Terry 1995). In his analysis of nscript to the Turkish ary, Biricik (2012) posns gay men’s strategi to be exempted and receive the “rotten report” wh the natn-state’s propagatn of hegemonic masculy.

I WAS GAY THE BRISH ARMY WHEN WAS ILLEGAL. IT DROVE ME TO DRK AND AN ATTEMPT ON MY OWN LIFE

” He further shows how gay men make e of this fixed hegemonic masculy by adoptg the “medilized notn of viancy” (ibid, 96) their genr performance durg examatn. The strategi clu wearg women’s cloths, g gay slang, and jectg hormon to grow breasts. Th, stead of takg for granted bodi as enti, I ask how the body (and not jt any, but a homosexual body) emerg the Turkish ary’s medil examatn.

A send qutn would ncern the nature of homosexualy: How is tablished as a provable fact?

Followg Latour and Woolgar ([1979] 1986) on the nstctn of scientific facts, homosexualy be a stable fact the ary hospal through s rporatn a body of knowledge.