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

Contents:

• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• MILARY DEPLOYS INSI USA AS VIO OF GAY TROOPS MARCHG IN PREPARATN FOR GAY PRI BATTLE ROYAL RURFAC
• US ARY IS POSTG GAY PRI RABOWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR PRI MONTH – HERE ARE THE PICS
• ARMY TO AWARD “THE GAY IS OK” RIBBON TO ENTIRE FORCE

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

Army Rerve, participat a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer panel discsn June 24, 2021. WASHINGTON -- Soldiers reprentg the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny virtually celebrated Pri Month Thursday as part of a discsn that marked another step the Army’s growg regnn toward the LGBTQ muny.

Every June, Pri Month is a natnal observance that is held to memorate the Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan, New York, 1969, a historic tippg pot wh the gay liberatn movement to empower all LGBTQ Amerins. The directive was a promise measure that barred LGBTQ-intifyg persons om ary service, but also prohibed ary personnel om discrimatg agast, or harassg, closeted gay and lbian troops.

Even 2011, after lawmakers repealed the directive, the repeal only ensured gay, lbian and bisexual troops uld openly serve. “I was explicly asked on my [enlistment] forms: Are you gay?

MILARY DEPLOYS INSI USA AS VIO OF GAY TROOPS MARCHG IN PREPARATN FOR GAY PRI BATTLE ROYAL RURFAC

Tammy Smh participate a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer panel discsn June 24, 2021. “I didn’t know whether the two uld align: me beg gay and servg the Army, ” he said.

Throughout the Army’s history, brave lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Soldiers and civilians have served and fought for our natn. Army Map Service, was fired and banned om feral employment 1957 bee he was gay.

Tammy Smh beme the first openly gay U. Sce the repeal of DoD’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy 2011, homosexual service members have served openly, wh honor and tegry the U. ” While prohibg discrimatn of closeted gay and lbian service members, the policy barred LGTBQ+ troops om servg openly the armed forc.

US ARY IS POSTG GAY PRI RABOWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR PRI MONTH – HERE ARE THE PICS

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. See, here’s the problem – The Amerin flag reprents all Amerins and the rights we cherish – we don’t need the bizarre multi-lored flag to appreciate eedom my hband and so many others (gay or not) risked their liv for or lost their liv for – your prri are so F’ked up.

A spokman for USASOC said a statement that the flag s posts was reflectg a Department of Defense memo that regnized June as “Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Pri Month. The social media post you reference is meant to be reflective of the DoD memorandum published on May 31, 2023, statg that the Department regniz June as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQ+) Pri Month. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

ARMY TO AWARD “THE GAY IS OK” RIBBON TO ENTIRE FORCE

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.