Sailor says Navy forc "awkward suatns" like walkg on two gay sailors

Contents:

• HARVEY MILK: US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS LEAR
• OPENLY GAY SOLDIERS AND SAILORS: THE VIEW OM A NAVY SUBMARE
• SWEN: 'GAY SAILOR' SIGN TO WARD OFF FOREIGN SUBMAR
• SWEDISH PEACE GROUP TROLLS RSIAN SUBMAR WH GAY FENCE SYSTEM
• "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
• SAILOR SAYS NAVY FORC “AWKWARD SUATNS” LIKE WALKG ON TWO GAY SAILORS
• SWEDISH PEACE ACTIVISTS PLOY ‘GAY SAILOR’ TO TER RSIAN SUBMAR

HARVEY MILK: US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS LEAR

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The USNS Harvey Milk was lnched San Diego on SaturdayThe US Navy has lnched a ship named after a gay rights activist forced to rign om the service bee of his sexualy the 1950s. But he was forced out of the service followg two weeks of terrogatn about his sexualy later beme one of Ameri's first openly gay policians, elected 1977 to the San Francis Board of a year later he was shot and killed by Dan Whe, a former cy supervisor wh whom he had equently clashed. I’m sure there will be some issu once women are fully tegrated to crews, but if people are worried about male and female sailors aternizg, see my earlier answer as to the gay dus onboard.

OPENLY GAY SOLDIERS AND SAILORS: THE VIEW OM A NAVY SUBMARE

There’s all the gay jok about dus on submar. “It’s not gay if you’re unrway.

SWEN: 'GAY SAILOR' SIGN TO WARD OFF FOREIGN SUBMAR

We had some gay guys onboard and nobody red.

– A Navy hazg se that led to the firg of the top enlisted officer aboard a nuclear submare was sparked by gay jok about a sailor who said another man tried to rape him while a foreign port, acrdg to an vtigative report obtaed by The Associated report sheds light on a hazg se that led to the reassignment of Master Chief Machist's Mate Charl Berry, who had been servg as "chief of the boat" on the Kgs Bay, Ga. Among other thgs, he was lled a rogatory term for a gay person and referred to as "Brokeback, " a reference to the gay-themed movie "Brokeback Mounta. You n probably image what life is like on a submare, and a't chy: You're trapped a long metal tube, buried at sea, everythg's btally stctured, and there's a lot of gay sex.

SWEDISH PEACE GROUP TROLLS RSIAN SUBMAR WH GAY FENCE SYSTEM

Well, some of that is a myth: There's no gay sex. What you do is lled hot-rackg, which is three guys to every two beds and we say “’s not gay, if you’re unr way. Navy Lnch First Gay Submare.

The Navy lnched s first gay submare Saturday. Manned by an all gay crew, the USS Tennsee Williams is a Virgia-class attack submare pable of shootg missil and all sorts of stuff, s Capta Marcelo McGary says.

Here’s a sensible note om a young Navy submare officer who says he is wrg bee he wants people to unrstand that the obstacle to beg openly gay the ary li Congrs, not the uniformed ary: The bate may exist the media, and certaly exists Congrs, but on the ship,... Here's a sensible note om a young Navy submare officer who says he is wrg bee he wants people to unrstand that the obstacle to beg openly gay the ary li Congrs, not the uniformed ary:. Here’s a sensible note om a young Navy submare officer who says he is wrg bee he wants people to unrstand that the obstacle to beg openly gay the ary li Congrs, not the uniformed ary:.

"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS

Don’t get me wrong, there is homophobia and there are a few loud, mostly unted, mostly very junr, and mostly still well-meang people who would tell you they thk s wrong — but they’re the kd of people who are jt sayg bee s what they were brought up to say, and even they aren’t sayg wh much fervor. Gay submarers. ' That was said wh some homophobia - as 'I wouldn't work on submar bee this happens.

Homosexualy at sea has had a hidn history. But even more hidn is the history of gay US submarers, particularly those workg at Holy Loch on nuclear subs. Image source, Svenska FredsImage ptn, The bottom of the sign refers to Swen as "gay sce 1944" - the year legalised homosexualyA Swedish peace group has e up wh an unual way of tryg to repel Rsian Swedish Peace and Arbratn Society (SPAS) says has stalled an unrwater "fence system" known as the Sgg Sailor the waters off Stockholm.

Dcribed as a subsurface sonar system, the stallatn featur the words "Wele to Swen" Rsian, and ems the phrase "this way if you are gay" Morse . It seems the group is playg on the rise homophobia Rsia sce the adoptn of a law banng "gay propaganda" the society, which was formed 1883, says the sign is also a way to try to persua the Swedish thori to rethk g ary means for natnal secury.

SAILOR SAYS NAVY FORC “AWKWARD SUATNS” LIKE WALKG ON TWO GAY SAILORS

Fet Bra’s Trint, or Israel’s Iron Dome – peace-lovg Swen has e up wh a much more novative, and clive, system of Swedish Peace and Arbratn Society (SPAS) is to al wh encroachg Rsian submar Swedish waters wh a vice emtg anti-homophobia Morse vice – officially tled The Sgg Sailor Unrwater Defence System, but nicknamed the “gay sailor” – is a “subsurface sonar system”, which sends out the msage: “This way if you are gay” an attempt to ter apparently homophobic has e unr fire sce the Put admistratn troduced homophobic laws 2013 banng “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns”, a climate of creasg tolerance towards s LGBT sign of the vice featur a neon, flashg sign of a dancg sailor, naked but for a p and small whe briefs, surround by hearts.

“Wele to Swen: Gay sce 1944” is wrten English and Rsian, a reference to the year of crimalisatn of homosexualy the Sndavian “gay sailor” vice is lowered to the waters off Copenhagen. And thanks to the gay sailor fence system, may never have to be. Gay and Lbian soldiers faced extraordary discrimatn durg World War II.

Liebman and more than 9, 000 Amerin servicemembers, however, eventually were given a Sectn 8 "blue discharge" for beg homosexual. The 1994 documentary Comg Out Unr Fire giv voice to the experienc of thoands of gay and lbian servicemembers who joed the ary durg World War II, a story that is largely ignored by historians and mms across the untry.

SWEDISH PEACE ACTIVISTS PLOY ‘GAY SAILOR’ TO TER RSIAN SUBMAR

In 1993, the Uned Stat was batg the discrimatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regardg homosexuals the morn ary.

At the time, homosexualy was classified as a mental illns by the medil muny; mental illns was one ndn that disqualified young people om service. Gay and lbian recs were forced to answer qutns vaguely, or lie about their sexualy, orr to be allowed to serve; otherwise, they would n the risk of beg sent home and brand as “sex perverts.

By the middle of the war, the ary sought new ways to target and expel homosexuals. Instead of chargg dividuals wh sodomy, a urt-martialed offense, the ary began intifyg spected homosexuals as psychopaths.