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- ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
- TAMMY SMH: FIRST OPENLY GAY U.S. GENERAL
- US ARMY GENERAL COM OUT AS GAY, INTRODUC HIS ‘HBAND’ AT PENTAGON GAY PRI EVENT
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- GAY GENERAL HID PRIVATE LIFE OM ARMY FOR YEARS
- IDF’S TOP LAWYER TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR GENERAL
- ATTUS CHANGE BUT LOVE? LOVE IS NSTANT: MAJOR GENERAL ALASTAIR BCE ON BEG GAY, ARY AND MARRIED
- IDF PROMOT S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR GENERAL, SHARON AFEK
- ISRAEL'S FIRST GAY MAJOR GENERAL IS NO CSE FOR PRI
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
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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.
TAMMY SMH: FIRST OPENLY GAY U.S. GENERAL
Army Rerve officer Tammy Smh was promoted to the posn of Brigadier General last Friday. In dog so, she beme the first gay general to serve openly the U.S. ary. Gen. Smh talks wh NPR's Lynn Neary about her reer the ary and the signifince of her recent promotn. * gay major general *
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. Smh is now the first openly gay general the Uned Stat jos om the Pentagon jt a moment.
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US ARMY GENERAL COM OUT AS GAY, INTRODUC HIS ‘HBAND’ AT PENTAGON GAY PRI EVENT
US Army General Com Out as Gay, Introduc His 'Hband' at Pentagon Gay Pri Event * gay major general *
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.
THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
Some May Celebrate the Fact That Sharon Afek, the Milary Advote General, Is the First Openly Gay Person to Achieve the Rank of IDF Major General – but His Un Has Done Some Shameful Thgs * gay major general *
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. 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.
GAY GENERAL HID PRIVATE LIFE OM ARMY FOR YEARS
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. His announcement is a first for a male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league. * gay major general *
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.
IDF’S TOP LAWYER TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR GENERAL
Did the fay know that she was gay, but she never uld tell the ary that? Yeah, she knew she was gay when she was eight years old.
ATTUS CHANGE BUT LOVE? LOVE IS NSTANT: MAJOR GENERAL ALASTAIR BCE ON BEG GAY, ARY AND MARRIED
Brigadier General Tammy Smh joed om the Pentagon - as of Friday, our natn's first openly gay general. 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.
IDF PROMOT S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR GENERAL, SHARON AFEK
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. Gay men have always been part of the Amerin ary. In an era before gay marriage or open pri, ary men fell love, formed passnate iendships and had same-sex enunters.
ISRAEL'S FIRST GAY MAJOR GENERAL IS NO CSE FOR PRI
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.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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. 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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
But historil homosexual relatnships were actually don’t mean beg gay was ndoned: Sodomy was a crime lonial Ameri. She me out as gay to some tsted iends 1997, but wh the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy place, Lrback was unable to brg her te self to the missn and had to hi huge aspects of her daily life until the policy was repealed 2011. The lol media took my story of beg the first gay manr of the un and the story went public on social media — not the attentn that I ever red for, but after that time I realized there was no hidg anymore!
”A earlier, the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” allowed gays and lbians to serve openly after centuri of hidg, persecutn and dishonorable, we salute some of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer service members who paved the way for a more clive force. Ralph Earl via Getty ImagWhout this gay ary geni, the Contental army might not have won the Revolutnary War.