The Gay Bomb – Now I Know

us military gay bomb 1994

The ia of a gay bomb me om a sire to bilate enemi but not necsarily kill them. The proposed bomb would nta strong aphrodisiacs and make soldiers "sexually irristible" to each other.

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

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The ia of a gay bomb me om a sire to bilate and distract their opponents but not necsarily kill them.

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. 5 ln ventn: the gay bomb.

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.

THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’

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.

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

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

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. The gay bomb certaly fs the bill for that one.

After readg about the theoretil gay bomb, check out the super real Bat Bomb. The 1994 project that sought to weaponise fabulonsPhoto by Brett Sayl om PexelsThe US ary has a long and storied history wh homosexualy. The earlit exampl of someone beg expelled om the ary for homosexual behavur e om Febary 1778.

THE US MILARY ONCE ACTIVELY PROPOSED A $7.5 MILLN 'GAY BOMB'

He was expelled om the Contental Army by orr of none other than Gee Washgton ’s no surprise to fd rampant homophobia even at the natn’s ceptn, beg gay was not actually a crime the US ary until much later than many would assume.

While plenty of men were dishonourably discharged for beg gay throughout the 19th century, wouldn’t be until 1916 that ‘asslt wh the tent to m sodomy’ was listed as a crime. In 1920, this would be revised to any homosexual punishment for homosexual behavur was up to five years ary prison, the forfe of all pay and allowanc, and a dishonourable discharge, which n and of self lead to difficulti securg work, ary benefs, and even a WW1 homosexual acts were illegal unr martial law, but there was no outright ban on beg gay exactly.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

That all changed 1982 and simply beg gay the ary was illegal. As the Department of Defence stated: ‘homosexualy was patible wh ary service’.

THE U.S. MILARY'S IDTIC IA FOR A GAY BOMB

While beg gay was no longer illegal, tellg people you were gay, aternisatn and homosexual behavur would all get you dishonourably discharged.

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

1994 & Weaponisg FabulonsDon’t Ask Don’t Tell — Milary guidance posterDurg shortag of personnel, pecially WW2, the US ary would relax s screeng procs, allowg gay people back to ary service, but only for a time. The US ary vtigated buildg a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irristible" to each other, ernment papers say.

THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’

The plan for a so-lled "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemil that would provoke wispread homosexual behavur among troops, g what the ary lled a "distasteful but pletely non-lethal" blow to morale. And th the "gay bomb" was born. "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. Although many of the nspiraci are lghable, sometim the most ridiculo mors turn out to be te, cludg the real proposal of strange fensive tactics like a flatulence bomb and a "gay bomb.

THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED

Strangelove, but documents prove the ernment really did toy wh plans of a homosexual cendiary vice. Although the ia of a fense tool that aims to make enemy batants gay might have seemed appropriate the 1950s, when Amerins feared atomic vic, UFOs full of aliens, and nnabis-crazed teenagers, the proposal of the gay blz actually took place the 1990s. The US Milary Feared Homosexualy For Years.

By the mid-20th century, homosexualy had e to be viewed as a mental fect.

Amid Fears of Homosexual Disptn, A US Air Force Lab Proposed The 'Harassg, Annoyg and "Bad Guy" Intifyg Chemils Project'.

“GAY BOMBS: EXPLODG, REMAPPG TOPOLOGI OF QUEERNS” PRENTED BY BLAS

One year after Clton iated the DADT policy, some members of the ernment clearly weren't over their unease wh homosexualy.

The Project Also Proposed Weakeng Enemy Troops Wh A 'Gay Bomb'. Along wh proposals for distractg enemy troops wh flatulence and bad breath, scientists at Wright Laboratory also noted that "[o]ne distasteful but pletely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavr;" other words, a "gay bomb. Perhaps a rult of the US ernment's ia that homosexualy spells disaster for troops, the project's creators believed the proposed vice "would be disptive to un morale and effectivens.

GAY BOMB

After the Sunshe Project publicly revealed the "gay bomb" proposal, the Department of Defense (DOD) claimed they nsired the ias but never ma any attempt to put them to actn. As huiatg as may be to the DOD, the award proved an appropriate fal chapter to the proposal for the homosexual cendiary vice.

THE 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. The unmistakable product of s “don’t ask, don’t tell” era, a so-lled “Gay Bomb” ncept was pched 1994 by the Air Force’s Wright Laboratory.

“It’s jt offensive that they thk by turng people gay that the other ary would be pable of dog their job, ” said Geoff Kors of Equaly “Ig Nobel Prize” mtee—a group that salut weird and/or amg ntributns to science—also weighed by awardg the Wright Lab’s efforts wh their tongue--cheek 2007 “Peace Prize.

The gay 1994, the Wright Laboratory—part of the U. Ially, the three-page proposal suggted, the affected soldiers would fd their brothers--arms “sexually irristible” (per the BBC) and, per Fox News, noted that “[o]ne distasteful but pletely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavr.

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