LGBT mpaigner Carl At-Behan OBE on how the RAF kicked him out of the air force for beg gay
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MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
Wh the announcement this week that liberal journalist Steve Kornacki of Salon will take over weekend roundtable show, Up, MSNBC is addg s third openly gay anchor to the lp. Maddow, who is gay, often lled upon Kornacki as a Roberts, who was recently married to Patrick Abner New York, also hosts his own midday show on the channel and was before that anchor for The Advote's onle newsst, which is no longer productn. It's 2011, after all, and I live Manhattan, surround social and profsnal settgs by gay people.
They didn't thk I was terted any kd of relatnship - straight or gay. A nversatn between an RAF veteran and a servg air technician has revealed how changg attus uld be a posive sign of a more diverse ary the veteran Carl At-Behan and Corporal Owa Bridge spoke of their year marks the 20th anniversary of the liftg of the ban on LGBTQ personnel servg the Brish armed forc and their ntrastg experienc reveal an sight to how the Armed Forc are evolvg to rporate more equaly and diversy to reflect society at regnise and celebrate, we’ve been speakg to lbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgenr service men and women, about their experience of beg LGBTQ while servg the Brish ary. Some of those speakg out are servg openly, some have hidn their sexualy and, prr to the ban beg lifted 2000, some were forced to leave bee they were found, the former Lord Mayor of Manchter, said he had been orred out of the RAF for beg gay.
I WAS KICKED OUT OF THE RAF FOR BEG GAY
He took a trip down memory lane to meet wh openly bisexual serviceman Owa, who is currently servg at RAF Wterg and whose experience is beg seen by many posive change Bra’s they reveal their own personal stori nversatn wh each, who served the RAF between 1991 and 1997, said: “I was discharged for my sexualy bee at the time was illegal to be gay. Lookg back, he told how he remembered once, at an Armed Forc Careers Informatn Office, how lghter acpanied the qutn “you’re not gay are you? He got touch wh the Air Force - told the Air Force that I was gay.
”He add: “I remember them jt turng around and askg me ‘do you have homosexual tennci? ”Aircraft technician Owa, however, experienced a very different oute after g out durg his joed the RAF 2005 and ially kept his sexualy he said that durg his time on one squadron, some of the attus were "perhaps perceived as a ltle b old fashned", revealg his sexualy has had much more posive oute than Carl’s, an aircraft technician at 71 Inspectn and Repair Squadron at RAF Wterg and a reprentative of the Royal Air Force Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr (LGBT) Freedom Network, said that ially, he thought beg open about his sexualy would be a distractn to said: “I didn’t really feel the prsure to tell anybody at that time, pl I was probably still tryg to figure thgs out for myself anyway and jt work out how I felt I would intify myself as well as I uld do.
elrgay threadby Anonymoreply 17June 1, 2012 1:57 AM. I've always known women uldn't measure, but I'm surprised how many gay men have the same an example, Tommy Lee was mentned. Is that creep Flea, is he gay?