"What Would You Do?" Gay the Milary (TV Episo) - IMDb

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• I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.
• GAY THE MILARY

I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.

Polls show a majory of Amerins support the end of the 17-year-old policy, but others have openly opposed the cisn.The repeal remas a hot topic, so "What Would You Do?" cid to set up hidn meras si the Colonial Der Lyndhurst, N.J., to see how people felt about openly gay servicemen showg affectn public. Demetroul even stood up at one pot and mand that the stigator leave the der, rtg him towards the door.When we later told Demetroul the scene was all part of "What Would You Do?", he told our John Quon he felt bad for the servicemen."I figured [they'd] been through enough as is," he said.As the actors played out the scenar aga and aga, many other ders also nonted the stigator and told him to leave the affectnate soldiers alone.Dpe observg the soldiers hug each other and stroke each other's legs, some ders later told they did not realize the soldiers were supposed to be a gay uple, even though they had no problem wh the mens' homosexualy.Gay Soldiers HarassedMar Battenurt was one der who seemed to ignore the soldiers' affectn as well as our stigator who eventually nonted them.

GAY THE MILARY

Smh thanked the "serviceman" and lled him a hero, even after he disvered the soldier was gay."It don't matter to me whatsoever," Smh said. It's necsary, or we both die."We wonred what would happen when we swched our actors and swapped out the gay men for gay women.

In rponse, and apparently to monstrate his petency his assigned posn, the nonmissned officer had taken upon himself to approach the person he nsired cled toward mtg a siar offense the future: me, the only openly gay soldier my un.

Together we approached our un’s learship, where she sisted that the ments had stemmed om the reprentative’s own homophobic feelgs and remend that he be reprimand and removed om his posn as the un’s sexual harassment watchdog. But by then was hard to ignore the anxiety I felt durg required social activi — “mandatory fun, ” as ’s lled the ary — or the tensn om my fellow moment I cid to bee a soldier and the moment I chose to live openly as a gay man occurred so closely time that ’s hard to remember which me first.

It was still four months before the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” a double-edged policy prohibg askg any service member about his or her sexualy while enforcg a ban on openly gay service members. Mike and Abe were to mentor me on how to survive as a gay serviceman.

As long as gay soldiers kept their mouths shut, the burn of proof fell on those makg the accatns.

A uple were more elaborate: tailed scriptns of what might happen to me if I was ught alone, and proclamatns about the wrongns of gays the ary. There are moments when feels wrong to claim my stat as a veteran; as if beg gay ma me ls of a soldier and somehow validated my service.

Every memory evok an emotn: rage that I had to serve wh a nstant sense of fear of my fellow soldiers; paralyzg sadns for those who endured ab worse than I n know; and, the worst, guilt over the service members — gay or straight or transgenr — who died while servg the ary while my body is still whole. All episosAllCast & crewIMDbProRealy-TVAdd a plot your languageStarsBen BrLorrae Rodriguez-ReySee productn, box office & pany See productn, box office & pany See more at IMDbProPhotosAdd photoTop stEdBen BrGay Man 1 (2014)Lorrae Rodriguez-ReyLeadAll st & crewProductn, box office & more at IMDbProStoryleEdTop picksSign to rate and Watchlist for personalized remendatnsSign DetailsEdSee more pany creds at IMDbProTechnil specsEdRuntime1 hourRelated newsContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentIMDb Answers: Help fill gaps our dataLearn more about ntributgEd pageMore to exploreRecently viewedYou have no recently viewed pag. Ary, and harassment and sexual vlence towards people perceived as weak or as gay or as trans.

A 2011 report by the Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force found that 16% of transgenr Amerins had been sent to jail or prison. This was tratg for those of workg the long fights agast trans poverty and crimalizatn — to see how the power of one nservative philanthropist uld create the illn that trans muni were sayg that this was our number one procs rells the histori of how gay and lbian advocy nservatized the s after the ‘60s and ‘70s, when wealthy whe donors built up anizatns that, rather than advotg agast police vlence and war, created agendas that sought hate crim legislatn (which giv more punishg power to prosecutors but do not rce vlence), marriage (which primarily benefs people wh rourc and stat they n share through marriage), and ary cln. Eventually, that nservative agenda beme the most visible gay and lbian polics the U.

Urse, there are some trans people who really want to serve the ary, jt as there are some gay people who feel safe wh ps or feel eed by marriage.