Navy revers self on gay marriag on ary bas

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL FOR GAY MILARY COUPL ALL 50 STAT
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
US NAVY APPROV GAY WEDDGS ON BAS
FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
THE GAY MARRIAG OF A NETEENTH-CENTURY PRISON SHIP
NAVY REVERS SELF ON GAY MARRIAG ON ARY BAS

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL FOR GAY MILARY COUPL ALL 50 STAT

As "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to an end, we sent Chris Heath to terview dozens of gay servicemen om the past and prent to fd out what life was really like as Ameri's ary stggled wh s last great inty crisis * gay marriage in the navy *

Sce 2011, openly gay, lbian and bisexual men and women have been permted to serve the ary.

TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY

The right to a ary burial for gay spo was guaranteed natnwi wh the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015, but only a handful of known same-sex ary upl are buried across US natnal cemeteri. For most, the right to such an honor has been hard won. * gay marriage in the navy *

It wasn’t until 1982 that the ary enacted a policy explicly banng gay men and lbians om their ranks.

US NAVY APPROV GAY WEDDGS ON BAS

And the early 1940s, was classified as a mental illns, disqualifyg gay men and lbians om service. Eighteen years later, Congrs repealed the policy, allowg openly gay, lbian and bisexual people to serve the ary. Matt Thorn, terim executive director for OutServe-SLDN, an advocy group for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr service members, said the Supreme Court's cisn was a msage to their muny "that...

FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH

” But same-sex upl are ee to pick their own clergy member to perform their marriage ceremoni have been takg place ary chapels sce September 2013, when the Pentagon led that same sex partners of a service member were entled to the same benefs provid to oppose sex upl, such as health re, accs to ary facili and servic on all ary cisn me two years after the Pentagon lifted the "don't ask, don't tell" prohibn agast openly gay men or women servg the MiklaszewskiJim Miklaszewski is the chief Pentagon rrponnt for NBC News. 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.

THE GAY MARRIAG OF A NETEENTH-CENTURY PRISON SHIP

"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. Gay people were only acceptable, effect, to the gree to which they uld succsfully masquera as nongay.