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Contents:

• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
• US ARMY GENERAL COM OUT AS GAY, INTRODUC HIS ‘HBAND’ AT PENTAGON GAY PRI EVENT
• TAMMY SMH: FIRST OPENLY GAY U.S. GENERAL
• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• ATTUS CHANGE BUT LOVE? LOVE IS NSTANT: MAJOR GENERAL ALASTAIR BCE ON BEG GAY, ARY AND MARRIED
• GAY GENERAL HID PRIVATE LIFE OM ARMY FOR YEARS
• AIR FORCE PROMOT HIGHT RANKG GAY OFFICER
• DAVID W. GAY
• U.S. ARY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL SPEAKS AT FORT DM
• IDF’S TOP LAWYER TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR GENERAL
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY
• IDF PROMOT S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR GENERAL, SHARON AFEK
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ATTUS CHANGE BUT LOVE? LOVE IS NSTANT: MAJOR GENERAL ALASTAIR BCE ON BEG GAY, ARY AND MARRIED

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.

“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.

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.

TAMMY SMH: FIRST OPENLY GAY U.S. GENERAL

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.

Smh is now the first openly gay general the Uned Stat jos om the Pentagon jt a moment. If you are a gay or lbian member of the ary and have e out sce the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell, " please give a ll and tell your story at 800-989-8255.

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

She is the first openly gay general the Uned Stat ary. And I also read that, you know, before you were able to be openly gay the ary that, you know, a lot of thgs had to - everythg you did or thought about had to sort of be planned, a way.

You - as a gay woman, you uldn't.

SMITH: Well - and you characterized that as a gay woman, but I would have to say more jt as a woman the ary, that are there the Hmm.

ATTUS CHANGE BUT LOVE? LOVE IS NSTANT: MAJOR GENERAL ALASTAIR BCE ON BEG GAY, ARY AND MARRIED

But I do know that the Mare Corps do not honor gay marriag. Well, I wanted to ask you, you are - I know that you shy away om this, but you have to know that you are a role mol as a woman, as you said, and also, aga, as a gay woman.

So there will be some folks who will look up to me for beg gay - and not so much bee I'm gay, bee that's not really signifint, so much as that I upheld my personal tegry a way that is fortable for me. Go No - well, first, general, I am ecstatic that you are a general, and you beg gay has nothg to do wh you beg general.

And she was reced to Naval Intelligence and live a closeted life, fact, married a gay man when she was telligence so they uld mata their ver. Did the fay know that she was gay, but she never uld tell the ary that?

GAY GENERAL HID PRIVATE LIFE OM ARMY FOR YEARS

Yeah, she knew she was gay when she was eight years old. Brigadier General Tammy Smh joed om the Pentagon - as of Friday, our natn's first openly gay general. Gay men have always been part of the Amerin ary.

AIR FORCE PROMOT HIGHT RANKG GAY OFFICER

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.

DAVID W. GAY

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.

U.S. ARY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL SPEAKS AT FORT DM

But historil homosexual relatnships were actually don’t mean beg gay was ndoned: Sodomy was a crime lonial Ameri. Army Major General Randy Taylor is, currently, the hight-rankg openly gay soldier the U. “Of urse, when I did tell my iends and fay that I was gay, they all told me they had known, and have been terribly supportive.

"Hap" Gay. Gay was born on 16 May 1894 Rockport, IL. Gay was first missned to the U.

On 26 October 1917, Gay was missned to the Regular Army and promoted to First Litenant.

IDF’S TOP LAWYER TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR GENERAL

Gay was award the Silver Star December 1942 for gallantry actn on 8 November 1942 at Casablan.

Fifteenth Army, Gay was aga his Chief of Staff.

While Patton and Gay were seated the back seat of the staff r, enroute to the huntg lodge, there was a traffic accint, durg which Patton staed spal juri that later st him his life. Gay was unjured.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY

After Patton's ath, Gay assumed mand of Fifteenth Army January 1946 for a perd of one month.

IDF PROMOT S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR GENERAL, SHARON AFEK

Gay mand the Milary District of Washgton until September 1949. Gay ordated arrangements for Pershg's funeral ceremoni as the reprentative of the U. In September 1949, Gay took mand of the 1st Cavalry Divisn (U.

Jt days to his first bat mand, Gay had told reporters that he was sure that most persons movg south and toward Amerin l were "North Korean guerrillas, " even though the U. Based on this belief, Gay orred bridg blown, even though they were crowd wh civilians.

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

Gay. Gay was appoted Deputy Commanr of the U.

ATTUS CHANGE BUT LOVE? LOVE IS NSTANT: MAJOR GENERAL ALASTAIR BCE ON BEG GAY, ARY AND MARRIED

In September 1954, Major General Gay was ma Commanr of U. Gay's reer the U.

The Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, thorized by Act of Congrs, July 9, 1918, tak pleasure prentg the Distguished Service Cross to Major General [then Brigadier General] Hobart Raymond Gay (ASN: 0-7323), Uned Stat Army, for extraordary heroism nnectn wh ary operatns agast an armed enemy while servg wh Headquarters, 3d Army, actn agast enemy forc on 11 November 1944. When the operatns of the 90th Infantry Divisn of the Third Army were great peril, General Gay ma an spectn of the bridgg operatns over the flood Moselle and of the forward elements of the Divisn east of the Moselle om Mallg to Keonigmacker.