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:
- 07 | MYTHS OF WAR: GAY SERVICEMEN VIETNAM
- A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
07 | MYTHS OF WAR: GAY SERVICEMEN VIETNAM
* gay vietnam veterans *
( Tim Page/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Imag)Anyone uld be discharged om the Atralian armed forc for gay sexual behavur Vietnam. And sce nobody wanted to fight the Vietnam War – and gay men were exced natnal service — there mt have been no gay people on Atralian ary bas Vietnam, right?
A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
Larry Sanrs wr about servg the army, where he uld have been arrted for beg gay durg a very unpopular war. The day Larry Sanrs registered for the draft, one qutn buried the middle of a long qutnnaire smacked him the face: “Do you intify as a homosexual or ever had sexual feelgs for persons of the same sex? At the time Sanrs registered for the draft 1967, no one was clear about what happened to someone who admted beg gay.
When I registered for the draft jt a few years later, I was told not to say I was gay, bee they would make you prove .
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
How do someone not datg anyone “prove” they’re gay? He didn’t really intify as homosexual. And as a gay soldier, he didn’t particularly relate to those who served wh him.
FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
And what about beg a gay soldier an army that forba ?