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Contents:

• WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
• TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• WHAT TO EXPECT OM YOUR GAY SAILG HOLIDAY?
• A GAY MAN YOUR POOL

WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK

The mor go that he sucked off (and swallowed) so many sailors a gay bar San Diego that he land the hospal and need to have his stomach pumped.

Wasn't everyone at least a ltle b gay the ‘70s? He fed the prs a story which, as a nsequence of an eveng spent orally servicg a gang of sailors a gay bar San Diego, I had been required to check to a hospal emergency room to have my stomach pumped...

"Curnick, are you gay?

TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY

I was alone at the time and tears, and I cid to e clean — y, I'm gay, I told them.

After I me over that fal hurdle, I began to live openly, and my life as a gay man flourished. This past sprg, bat trag before my ployment to Afghanistan, someone found out I was gay, walked up to me and said, "I'm glad I'm not ployg wh you, I wouldn't tst a fag wh my life.

I grew up thkg that beg gay was wrong — that beg gay meant you f a stereotype. I'm gay. She had asked me many tim growg up if I was gay, but beg aaid of who I was, I never uld adm .

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

There, stctors and fellow trae nstantly threw homophobic slurs around. I distctly remember one day when an stctor said, "Oh look at those faggots, " and then turned to sayg, "Wa, 's OK to be gay, YOU jt n't be gay.

This prolonged my life the closet and I uld not be seen as gay to the rt of my class. It's where I me out, and I learned to live an open life and grow as a gay man. I feared I would be rejected by people I once was iends wh, terrified that the learship above me would look at me as ls of a man, or that any acplishment I have will be attributed to me beg gay, and not my mer.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

In fact, some of the most volly homophobic people end up beg my biggt supporters. I want to be the gay man that I wish I met when I was younger.

WHAT TO EXPECT OM YOUR GAY SAILG HOLIDAY?

I want to prove that the gay muny is jt as strong and pable as the straight world.

The are the voic explag what has been like to be a gay man1 the Amerin ary over the prev seventy or so years, om World War II veterans their late eighti to young servicemen on active duty. Life Today as a Gay ServicemanHow we got here: In 1992, many people thought that the discrimatn was nearly over. "I remember beg the Castro, " says John Forrett (army rerve, 1987–99), "and watchg the TV at a bar wh some iends, watchg Al Gore and Bill Clton swearg that if they beme the tag team for Ameri they were gog to get rid of the harassment of gays and lbians servg the ary.

" Gay people were allowed the ary but only as long as they didn’t reveal their sexualy; to facilate this, all members of the ary were also prohibed om quirg about anyone’s possible orientatn.

A GAY MAN YOUR POOL

Gay people were only acceptable, effect, to the gree to which they uld succsfully masquera as nongay. Seventeen years which gay servicemen have existed a paradoxil kd of herworld. Servicemen were advised that until then the policy would still apply, and that they uld potentially face s sanctns if they intify themselv publicly as gay.

’ "Air Force #1: "Two of my iends were disvered, both officers—’s a long and arduo procs for an officer to get kicked out for beg gay.