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Contents:
- STEVE ROGERS WILL MEET THE FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI ON HIS UPG ROAD TRIP
- CAPTA AMERI MAY NEVER HAVE A BOYIEND, BUT HE’S LONG HAD A GAY BT FRIEND
STEVE ROGERS WILL MEET THE FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI ON HIS UPG ROAD TRIP
In A Queer History of the Uned Stat, Michael Bronski explas how the disciple of sexology the 1880s led to “the scientific disvery of ‘homosexualy, ’” creatg the opportuny for “open discsn about the subject.
CAPTA AMERI MAY NEVER HAVE A BOYIEND, BUT HE’S LONG HAD A GAY BT FRIEND
” Unfortunately, Bronski ntu, this new language “immediately led to a clear articulatn of negative stereotyp about homosexuals.
”Later, the Amerin ary tried to block gay men and women om enlistg durg World War II by classifyg queerns as a psychiatric disorr. Allan Bébé explas Comg Out Unr Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women World War II that “the reason for excludg [gay men] as psychopaths was that… they were nsired to be irrponsible troublemakers who were unable to ntrol their sir or learn om their mistak and th threatened other men. ” Or, as Bronski puts , “A direct lk was beg ma between homosexual behavr and a threat to natnal secury.