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:
- FIRED GAY AIR FORCE AMY MANDANT WAS ‘TOXIC’ LEAR IG FDS; SHE CLAIMS DISCRIMATN
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- OPENLY GAY AIR FORCE MAND CHIEF AT RAMSTE LENDS VOICE OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE FOR PRI MONTH
- GAY OFFICER AIR FORCE FAC DISCHARGE
FIRED GAY AIR FORCE AMY MANDANT WAS ‘TOXIC’ LEAR IG FDS; SHE CLAIMS DISCRIMATN
* gay air force captain *
Goodw’s attorneys suggted she was the target of discrimatn as a gay married officer.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
Younger claimed the removal followed shortly after Goodw raised her own ncerns to Silveria about a senr officer unr her mand, as well as her ncerns about discrimatn as a gay officer. 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.
OPENLY GAY AIR FORCE MAND CHIEF AT RAMSTE LENDS VOICE OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE FOR PRI MONTH
"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.
GAY OFFICER AIR FORCE FAC DISCHARGE
" Gay people were allowed the ary but only as long as they didn’t reveal their sexualy; to facilate this, all members of the ary were also prohibed om quirg about anyone’s possible orientatn. Gay people were only acceptable, effect, to the gree to which they uld succsfully masquera as nongay. Seventeen years which gay servicemen have existed a paradoxil kd of herworld.