As "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to an end, we sent Chris Heath to terview dozens of gay servicemen om the past and prent to fd out what life was really like as Ameri's ary stggled wh s last great inty crisis
Contents:
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- WHY STRAIGHT SOLDIERS CAN’T STOP ACTG GAY ON VIO
- I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
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Has such homoerotic ary ruals. For one, the ary is an tensely homoerotic place. Many straight, gay and bisexual men have said that the shared showers, latr and changg areas; the pent-up horns and need for sexual exprsn all make the ary a place that awakens same-sex sire.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
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There’s a th (perhaps nonexistent) le between the homoerotic ary ruals and hazg, sexual asslt and rape. Have you heard about any of the homoerotic ary ruals? Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water.
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WHY STRAIGHT SOLDIERS CAN’T STOP ACTG GAY ON VIO
Gay men have always been part of the Amerin ary.
In an era before gay marriage or open pri, ary men fell love, formed passnate iendships and had same-sex enunters. But the se of one of the ary’s foundg hero, homosexualy was always part of the story. Historians also thk he was homosexual—and served as an openly gay man the ary at a time when sex between men was punished as a crime.
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I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.
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THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
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The are the voic explag what has been like to be a gay man1 the Amerin ary over the prev seventy or so years, om World War II veterans their late eighti to young servicemen on active duty. Life Today as a Gay ServicemanHow we got here: In 1992, many people thought that the discrimatn was nearly over. "I remember beg the Castro, " says John Forrett (army rerve, 1987–99), "and watchg the TV at a bar wh some iends, watchg Al Gore and Bill Clton swearg that if they beme the tag team for Ameri they were gog to get rid of the harassment of gays and lbians servg the ary.