In 1994, The U.S. Milary Actually Consired Buildg A "Gay Bomb"

Contents:

• D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
• WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?
• MEET GAY BOB, THE 1977 DOLL THAT URGED PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET
• GAY BOMB
• GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY
• THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
• THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED

D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN

This movie explored the story of Hiroshima om the perspective of Enola Gay pilot Pl Tibbets (played by Robert Taylor). -based AARP Servic, Inc., an arm of the AARP that teracts wh bs supportive of the natn’s senrs, filed a ltle-noticed lawsu May 2018 chargg AARP Servic wh firg him bee he’s gay and married to a man.

The lawsu says AARP allegedly fired at least one other gay employee, who also filed su and an out-of-urt settlement was reached. For 22 years and was discrimatorily fired by an anizatn that stat they are gay iendly, Rick believ that his story should be heard, ” Chambers said.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

The Ig Nobel peace prize went to the US Air Force’s Wright Laboratory Oh for s 1994 plan to velop a weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irristible to one another, an ia later dubbed the “gay bomb”. Details of the scheme were unvered a classified document (pdf) that suggts a strong aphrodisiac would be “pletely non-lethal” but uld be serly disptive “pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavur.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

"One distasteful but non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavur, " says the proposal om the Air Force's Wright Laboratory Dayton, Pentagon did not ny that the proposal had been ma: "The partment of fence is mted to intifyg, rearchg and velopg non-lethal weapons that will support our men and women uniform.

"Aaron Belk, director of the Universy of California's Michael Palm Centre, which studi the issue of gays the ary, said: "The ia that you uld subm someone to some aerosol spray and change their sexual behavur is ludicro. It was livered by the B-29 Enola Gay (on display at the Smhsonian Natnal Air & Space Mm),  tonated at an altu of 1, 800 feet over Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. The ia of a gay bomb me om a sire to bilate and distract their opponents but not necsarily kill them.

IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”

Wikimedia CommonsThe gay bomb was a theoretil cloud of gas that would turn enemy soldiers gay.

The ncept of a “gay bomb” sounds like somethg out of a bad science fictn movie. The gay bomb would be a cloud of gas that would be discharged over enemy mps “that ntaed a chemil that would e enemy soldiers to bee gay, and to have their uns break down bee all their soldiers beme irristibly attractive to one another.

Basilly, the pheromon the gas would turn the soldiers gay. The scientists ntued to suggt addns to the gay bomb, cludg aphrodisiacs, and other scents.

WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?

Thankfully, the gay bomb was only ever theoretil and never put to motn.

Like the gay bomb, the creative chemil ias also never me to un. Dpe the drawbacks, for their work such an novative field, the rearchers who nceptualized the gay bomb were award the Ig Nobel Prize, a parody award which celebrat unual scientific achievements that “first make people lgh, and then make them thk. After readg about the theoretil gay bomb, check out the super real Bat Bomb.

Thirteen ch tall and plastic, Gay Bob was marketed as the first openly gay doll and ma his retail but mail-orr talogs. Gay Bob's packagg proudly (and wordily) explaed what “g out of the closet” meant:. "Hi boys, girls and grownups, I’m Gay Bob, the world’s first gay doll.

MEET GAY BOB, THE 1977 DOLL THAT URGED PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET

Gay people are no different than straight people. But remember, if Gay Bob has the urage to e out of his closet, so n you! At face value, Gay Bob’s msage about the mers of g out seems earnt, pog the valu of urage, honty, and livg thentilly; however, the brandg and sign of the Gay Bob doll are brash.

Gay Bob’s story is ceptively plited and tertwed toy and LGBTQ+ history.

GAY BOMB

Gay Bob was created by an advertisg executive named Harvey Rosenberg.

Rosenberg put $10, 000 of his own money to gettg Gay Bob manufactured through his pany, Gizmo Development.

We had somethg to learn om the gay movement, jt like we did om the black civil rights movement, and the women’s movement and that is havg the urage to stand up and say, ‘I have a right to be what I am.

GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY

While Rosenberg did not intify as gay, he stated that he had created the doll to liberate men om tradnal sexual rol. Acrdg to Rosenberg, regardls of a person’s sexualy, Gay Bob uld serve as an example for havg the urage to “e out of the closet” and be your te, thentic self.

Durg a prs blz for the doll’s release, Rosenberg also dited that Gay Bob was a spoof of other “amorpho, sexls dolls, ” which was undoubtedly a reference to Mattel’s KenTM and BarbieTM. He had plans to release addnal dolls that would have ma up the rt of Gay Bob’s fay (a mother, father, and two brothers); however, the other dolls were never produced. Gay Bob dolls were sold via mail-orr advertisements gay magaz and a few boutique shops New York Cy and San Francis.

Consequently, ten thoand more dolls were produced, and Gay Bob was btowed wh Esquire magaze's "Dub Achievement Award" 1978. Standg roughly 13 ch tall, Gay Bob was KenTM doll-que. A handsome and mascule doll, Gay Bob had a short feathery blon crew cut and was signed to look like a cross between Pl Newman and Robert Redford.

THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB

He had a preprogrammed voice rerdg that played the earnt msage, “Gay people are no different than straight people… if everyone me ‘out of their closets, ’ there wouldn’t be so many angry, trated, ightened people.

” This reerated msagg om his fashn talog that fed “g out of the closet” as what uld be scribed as Gay Bob’s manifto—be urageo by g out of your closet and livg hontly, like Gay Bob! Perhaps most notably the sign of Gay Bob is that he has anatomilly rrect genals. Gay Bob’s box was signed to look like a closet.

THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED

When Gay Bob was removed om the slidg se packagg, he was, effect, g out of the closet.

Gay Bob was, acrdg to Rosenberg himself, a “cheaply” ma doll, packaged cleverly. It's safe to say that Gay Bob's sign was over the top-- 's mp. But Gay Bob was more than jt clever packagg; he also promoted the ia that g out of the closet, beg open and hont wh the people your life, was a powerful and urageo act.

“It’s a real giggle and kd of fun, ” said Bce Voeller, executive director of the Natnal Gay Task Force said at the time, “I thk we should al wh lightly and enjoy . Gay Bob me out of his closet, but the world he stepped to was ntent. Gay Bob entered the world 1977 after the Stonewall Rt took place New York Cy 1969.