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.
A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
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? 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?
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
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 . How do someone not datg anyone “prove” they’re gay?
FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
He didn’t really intify as homosexual.