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• WATCH: COLBERT DTROYS DIMW POLICIAN WHO SAYS GAYS THE MILARY GET MASSAG ALL DAY
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• GAYS THE MILARY
• GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS
• YOUNG AND LONELY: WHY SOME MILARY MEN REALLY FEAR LGBT PEOPLE AND GAY SEX
• GAYS THE MILARY
• GENERAL SAYS 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT': THE ONN (VIDEO)
• GAYS IN THE MILITARY
• WHAT BILL HICKS HAD TO SAY ABOUT GAY PEOPLE SERVG THE ARY
• GAYS THE MILARY: VIEWS FROM THOSE WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN “ON THE GROUND”

WATCH: COLBERT DTROYS DIMW POLICIAN WHO SAYS GAYS THE MILARY GET MASSAG ALL DAY

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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

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GAYS THE MILARY

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GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS

Roosevelt—then-assistant secretary of the Navy—oversaw a large stg operatn to entrap and expel gay soldiers. Durg World War II, the armed forc troduced psychologil screeng of recs and banned anyone emed to have “homosexual proclivi.

Eisenhower, simultaneoly toughened rtrictns on gays the ary.

Service members who admted to beg gay or who were nvicted of homosexual behavr were dishonorably discharged and stripped of their pensns. The verdict was unequivol: “Homosexualy, ” the first sentence read, “is patible wh ary service. ” The report said that the prence of gays “serly impairs the acplishment of the ary missn.

YOUNG AND LONELY: WHY SOME MILARY MEN REALLY FEAR LGBT PEOPLE AND GAY SEX

One of Print Bill Clton’s first acts upon takg office January 1993 was to fulfill a mpaign promise: repeal the ban on gays the ary. It restuted the ban on openly gay service members, but barred pre‐enlistment qutns about sexual orientatn.

Officers would no longer ask about their subordat’ orientatn and, as long as service members didn’t tell superrs they were gay, and didn’t engage homosexual acts while on active duty, they were ee to serve.

Conduct Unbeg: Gays and Lbians the U.

GAYS THE MILARY

The Other Si of Silence: Men’s Liv and Gay Inti, A Twentieth-Century History, Excerpted the. Gay, lbian and bisexual service members may be signifintly more likely to suffer sexual asslts the ary than heterosexual troops, a new Rand Corp. Rand said about 43% of all ary sexual asslts over the prr year were mted agast troops who are gay, lbian and bisexual, or who otherwise did not dite they are heterosexual, although they make up about 12% of the active-duty force, acrdg to a 2018 Defense Department survey.

The difference between sexual asslt rat for gay or bisexual men, as opposed to heterosexual men, was even more stark, Rand said. 7% of gay or bisexual men -- ne tim the rate of LGB men -- had been sexually asslted. The data llected the Pentagon's 2018 Workplace and Genr Relatns Survey of Active Duty Members suggts that there may be about 43, 000 gay or bisexual men and about 29, 000 lbian or bisexual women the active-duty ary, out of nearly 1.

The 2018 survey found that 4% of servicemen, and 14% of servicewomen, intified as gay, lbian or bisexual. Wh so many gay, lbian or bisexual troops uniform, and such a disproportnate percentage of that populatn experiencg sexual asslts, Rand said the data suggts that "a nsirable actn" of sexual asslts are likely beg mted agast LGB service members.

GENERAL SAYS 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT': THE ONN (VIDEO)

To try to prevent asslts on gay, lbian and bisexual troops, Rand said the ary needs to do more to unrstand where they are occurrg and what is motivatg the attackers. Newsweek published this story unr the headle "Homoeroticism the Ranks" on July 26, 1993. For some, may do the human tth, never publicly acknowledged by the top brass, may be one reason the Pentagon so bterly risted Print Clton's mpaign promise to drop the ban on gays the ary.

The admistratn is offerg a promise this week that would allow gays to serve as long as they did not advertise their sexual preference.

GAYS IN THE MILITARY

But no solutn n do more than paper over an unfortable realy of life the trench: that the male bondg so prized by ary manrs—the willgns to die for one's buddi—n engenr another kd of closens as GIs regnize homosexual leangs for the first time the all-male surroundgs. Author Steven Zeeland says that more than half the soldiers who appear his jt-published book, Barrack Buddi and Soldier Lovers: Dialogu Wh Gay Young Men the U.

"Wh openly gay and heterosexual personnel together, sexual tensn would fter 24 hours a day, " says a recent New York Tim op-ed page piece wrten by Bernard E. " The thors th voked a reigng myth of the current bate, which se the ial of virtuo male bondg threatened by unernable homosexual lts.

WHAT BILL HICKS HAD TO SAY ABOUT GAY PEOPLE SERVG THE ARY

Homosexualy remas exotic and forbiddg terra for most servicemen. Many have never known a gay man or woman and n barely image what their liv are like.

Zeeland's book, for stance, scrib an rmal work of gay Amerin GIs and civilians based Frankfurt, Germany, shortly before the Gulf War. In the acmodatg embrace of the cy's teemg red-light district, gay and straight GIs pursued separate but equal satisfactns, and crossover experimentatn was not unknown. "They were young, lonely, and sometim sperately horny, " wr Zeeland, a civilian employee of the Army Frankfurt for eight years and himself gay.

"There is, fact, an unrcurrent of homoerotic tensn the shared latr, shower rooms and sleepg quarters of barracks life. By imagg themselv objects of homosexual lt, they unwtgly place themselv the feme role—which may expla the vehemence of their objectns. "Part of is the ia that, 'Maybe [gays] are seeg somethg me that I don't want to adm is me, " says Universy of Mississippi psychologist Dan Landis, who has worked wh the ary on equal-opportuny matters over the past 20 ary exalts masculy ways that are ankly or implicly sexual.

GAYS THE MILARY: VIEWS FROM THOSE WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN “ON THE GROUND”

Milary lears sist that homosexuals threaten the bondg that is val to "the ary culture. " But gays are simply rporated to that culture as eful foils for mascule self-validatn. Seldom merely shunned, spected gays often n a gantlet of macho bullyraggg.

Due to current Uned Stat ary regulatn, LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) cizens have to keep their sexual orientatn a secret if they want to serve any branch of the armed forc. In 1993, an attempt to stifle prott om the gay muny, Print Bill Clton iated the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy (DADT) wh the Uned Stat armed forc. The policy dited that while homosexual cizens uld still serve the armed forc, they uld not do so if they announced their sexual orientatn.

This policy mirrored a ban prevly stated the Uned Stat which universally banned all homosexuals om servg the armed forc.