Gay subculture is flourishg ary -- wh acquicence of manrs Pentagon may be opposed to liftg ban, but armed forc have already adapted

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.

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OCEANSIDE — A home repair “fix-” man, scribed by police and ary vtigators as the lear of a gay Mare porno productn rg, said Sunday that more than 500 active-duty personnel at Camp Pendleton have been volved his mail-orr vio operatn.

“Bobby, ” 39, who agreed to an terview on the ndn that his last name not be published, but whose inty was nfirmed through law enforcement sourc, said many more Mar natnwi have ocsnally taken part heterosexual and homosexual vio pornography.

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”He said he also acted as the pot man an unrground referral operatn, whereby other makers of pornographic vios the San Diego area would pay active-duty Mar upward of $250 for tapg ssns that ranged om 20 to 90 20%, or “every two 10, ” of the Mar he viotaped or referred to other agenci were homosexual or bisexual, he said. ”“A Mare, you give them a few beers, and of urse, a few hundred bucks, and that’s ually enough, ” Bobby said, addg that he had sold “thoands” of his vios to iends over the last three years, at pric startg at $ abe vtigators for the Oceansi Police Department announced last week that they were closg an quiry to a gay male porno productn rg bee did not volve unrage boys, as tectiv had feared.

Although few civilian laws rtrict homosexual or heterosexual pornography, the Uniform Co of Milary Jtice forbids personnel om engagg sodomy, prostutn, panrg or distributg obscene material the mail. John Lamb said last week that the pornographic material, sold as graphic homosexual vios, was shipped by Uned Parcel Service, which Lamb said is not Warrant Officer Mike Hedlund, actg as the spokman for Camp Pendleton, nfirmed last week that the crimal vtigative un is “vtigatg allegatns that Mar were volved the productn, manufacture and sale of pornographic material. ”Ls than 1% of the tapg volved heterosexual pornography, he said, addg that the recent “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays the ary is wily viewed “as a plete joke.

He reported the rape immediately but the rponse by his superrs was to threaten him wh a homosexual discharge. ”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.

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Friedrich von Stben joed the Pssian army as a teen, eventually beg an ai--mp to Frerick the Great, who was also mored to be gay. But In 1763, at 33, Stben was unceremonly discharged “unr a cloud, hound by accatns of havg relatns wh young men, ” acrdg to The Gay and Lbian Review. Acrdg to Randy Shilts’ “Conduct Unbeg: Gays and Lbians the U.

C., and the Stben Para, held each September down New York’s Fifth KamenyFrank Kameny Kennedy / Tribune News Service via Getty ImagOne of the Foundg Fathers of the morn gay rights movement, Frank Kameny enlisted the Army 1943, servg Europe throughout World War II. After the war, he earned a doctorate at Harvard Universy and tght astronomy at Geetown Universy, In 1957, Kameny had jt started workg for the Army Map Service, wh hop of beg an astront, when he was termated after vtigators unvered evince he was a, then 32, appealed the firg, argug that flatly labelg gay people a secury risk was “no ls od than discrimatn based upon relig or racial grounds. The jtic refed to hear the appeal, but marked the first time the high urt even nsired a civil rights se based on sexual orientatn — and galvanized Kameny to beg a lifelong activist for equaly for gays and years later, 1965, Kameny, Kay Tob and Barbara Gtgs started the Annual Remrs, the first anized picket protts for gay rights Ameri, held at Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall.

In the 1970s, Kameny bee the first openly gay ndidate for Congrs and challenged the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s diagnosis of homosexualy as a mental disorr, acrdg to a 2015 Department of Labor 2009, the U.

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

LEAR OF PORNO RG SAYS 500 MAR INVOLVED : PORNOGRAPHY: HE SAYS THE MEN APPEARED GAY VIOS FOR THE MONEY--AND BEE THEY ARE LONELY. CORPS OFFICIALS SAY THEY HAVE INTIFIED NO ONE NNECTED TO THE FILMS.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

‘INSPECTN’ DIRECTOR LLS NEW MARE FILM THE ‘BLACK, GAY ROCKY’

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY