Army’s first openly gay general retir after spirg others | Article | The Uned Stat Army

Contents:

• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• PRO-PUT CHECHEN GENERAL WHO LED 'GAY PURGE' KILLED UKRAE
• PUT’S ANTI-GAY WAR ON UKRAE
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
• US ARMY GENERAL COM OUT AS GAY, INTRODUC HIS ‘HBAND’ AT PENTAGON GAY PRI EVENT

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

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. He also downplayed mors that the baron had been dismissed om the Pssian ary for homosexualy.

But he was gay, and homosexualy was viewed as a crimal aberratn by many of his peers.

PRO-PUT CHECHEN GENERAL WHO LED 'GAY PURGE' KILLED UKRAE

”After the war, von Stben legally adopted both men—a mon practice among gay men an age before same-sex marriage was legal. John Mulligan, who was also gay, served as von Stben’s secretary and is thought to have had a relatnship wh the baron. Durg von Stben’s lifetime, the ncept of gay marriage, gay pri or g out was unthkable and there was no language or open culture of homosexualy.

But historil homosexual relatnships were actually don’t mean beg gay was ndoned: Sodomy was a crime lonial Ameri.

PUT’S ANTI-GAY WAR ON UKRAE

”Acrdg to the Bla: “Sourc wh Rsian-based human rights anizatns nfirmed that Thayev played an unspecified role as recently as May of 2021 when human rights activist and a gay man, Ibragim Selimkhanov, was abducted om a subway statn the Novogireyevo District of the Rsian pal cy of Mosw by four Chechen operativ and flown agast his will to the Chechen pal cy of Grozny. "Sce 2017, human and LGBTQ+ activists noted that Chechen secury operativ and other officials the Kadyrov regime, cludg Thayev sourc nfirmed, have round up dozens of men on spicn of beg gay, held them unofficial tentn facili for days, huiated, starved and tortured them, what has been dubbed Chechnya’s 'anti-gay purge, " the report add.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

The Kreml has nstcted a pernic iology of homophobia as geopolics. The realy is that the Kreml has nstcted a pernic iology of homophobia as geopolics, and official Rsian rhetoric the war Ukrae is amed as the ntuatn of this polics by other means.

The 2013 law banng “propaganda for non-tradnal sexual relatnships” among mors not only rtricted possibili to speak and rm about sexualy and genr issu public—somethg siar is now unfoldg the Uned Stat, should be noted—but also signated homosexualy as a danger to children and to society. ” Acrdg to this logic, the facts that NATO expands to terrori Rsia nsirs part of s “sphere of fluence” and that European and Amerin lears talk of gay rights as universal human rights are two sis of the same .

US ARMY GENERAL COM OUT AS GAY, INTRODUC HIS ‘HBAND’ AT PENTAGON GAY PRI EVENT

In 2013 the Rsian newspaper Izvtiya warned that Wt-sponsored LGBT activism uld spark a “gay revolutn” riskg to throw Rsia back to the societal chaos of the 1990s. As the Maidan protts agast the pro-Rsian print Viktor Yanovych began Ukrae late 2013, Rsia’s largt newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda claimed that the protts were -anized by “natnalists, anti-Sem, neo-Nazis and homosexuals.

This tt is very straightforward and at the same time horrifyg—the gay para.

The mand to anize a gay-para is a tt of loyalty to this powerful world.