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Contents:

• US ARMY GENERAL COM OUT AS GAY, INTRODUC HIS ‘HBAND’ AT PENTAGON GAY PRI EVENT
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• WOMAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL
• HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
• SMH BE FIRST GAY GENERAL OFFICER TO SERVE OPENLY
• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

US ARMY GENERAL COM OUT AS GAY, INTRODUC HIS ‘HBAND’ AT PENTAGON GAY PRI EVENT

US Army General Randy Taylor has now e out of the foot locker and announced he is gay. Not only that but at a Pentagon-sponsored gay pri event he also troduced his “hband” to the world. The event kicked off wh a song om a gay choir, so we have that gog for , which is nice.

Taylor, whose 27 years of service spanned an outright ban on gays, then “don’t ask, don’t tell” and fally, the ban’s liftg 2011. Taylor was the master of ceremoni for the Pentagon’s 4th Gay Pri celebratn that shows a month of gay-themed posters and history.

I don’t want to celebrate gays the ary. Their beg gay do not make them notable.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

Tammy Smh, the ary’s hight-rankg openly gay officer, me out 2012, she has tried beg an example of livg thentilly while also beg a bean of visibily to other Soldiers and their fai.

The policy banned lbians, gay men and bisexuals om servg the ary.

It terrified her to e out as gay such a public way, but she felt a rponsibily to do , she said. As difficult as was for her, g out publicly as gay “may not have been as easy for someone who was at a lower rank, ” Smh said an terview last week.

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

“When I me durg the 80s, thgs were different for women and gay people, and now 2021, the societal l are different aga. “People mt fd fort and ph back some of that ternalized homophobia, and build a b on the journey between hont and thentic. Gay men have always been part of the Amerin ary.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

In an era before gay marriage or open pri, ary men fell love, formed passnate iendships and had same-sex enunters.

But the se of one of the ary’s foundg hero, homosexualy was always part of the story. Historians also thk he was homosexual—and served as an openly gay man the ary at a time when sex between men was punished as a crime.

He also downplayed mors that the baron had been dismissed om the Pssian ary for homosexualy. But he was gay, and homosexualy was viewed as a crimal aberratn by many of his peers. ”After the war, von Stben legally adopted both men—a mon practice among gay men an age before same-sex marriage was legal.

WOMAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL

John Mulligan, who was also gay, served as von Stben’s secretary and is thought to have had a relatnship wh the baron. Durg von Stben’s lifetime, the ncept of gay marriage, gay pri or g out was unthkable and there was no language or open culture of homosexualy.

But historil homosexual relatnships were actually don’t mean beg gay was ndoned: Sodomy was a crime lonial Ameri. In his closed-door posn last month, Ziegler told lawmakers that he is gay, and phed back agast the notn om some right-wg figur that his sexual orientatn fluenc his polics or his job.

HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL

“People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. -based profsnal league to e out as gay.

SMH BE FIRST GAY GENERAL OFFICER TO SERVE OPENLY

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Instagram makers lnch Creators Say Gay, project to raise funds for LGBTQ+ youth. In rponse to the horrible new Don't Say Gay law Florida (banng classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty primary schools), makers on Instagram, spearhead by @atcharlotthoe, … READ THE REST.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

Homophobic Arizona sex ed law so poorly-wrten they accintally banned tellg kids about heterosexual marriage. |Woman Be First Openly Gay General ADVERTISEMENTWoman Be First Openly Gay GeneralAug. 12, 2012WASHINGTON — An Army officer beg promoted to brigadier general openly acknowledged her homosexualy on Friday by havg her wife p her star to her uniform, th beg the first openly gay officer of flag rank the Uned Stat officer, Brig.

The star was affixed by Tracey Hepner, who was a -founr last year of the Milary Partners and Fai Coaln, which “provis support, rourc, tn and advocy for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr ary partners and their fai, ” acrdg to s Web uple married March 2012 the District of ary dropped s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gay service members on Sept. ”ImageSue Fulton, a spokwoman for OutServe, a two-year-old anizatn of lbians and gay men the ary, said Sunday that was “highly unlikely” that General Smh was the only gay officer of her rank. She lled the promotn ceremony which General Smh acknowledged beg gay part of the bt Army tradn.

Smh, the first openly gay ary officer of flag rank, misstated the year she and her partner were married. It was this year, March — not we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 8 of the New York edn wh the headle: Woman Be First Openly Gay General.