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Contents:
- LEONARD MATLOVICH: THE GAY MILARY HERO YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF
- "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- GAY VIETNAM
- THE HISTORY BEHD FAMO ‘GAY VIETNAM VETERAN’ HEADSTONE
- 07 | MYTHS OF WAR: GAY SERVICEMEN VIETNAM
LEONARD MATLOVICH: THE GAY MILARY HERO YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF
The Gay Milary Hero You've Probably Never Heard Of * gay vietnam soldiers *
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.
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"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
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And what about beg a gay soldier an army that forba ? "A Gay Vietnam Veteran, " reads bold letters. C., where a clter of gay veterans are buried.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
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 * gay vietnam soldiers *
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GAY VIETNAM
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It was March 1975 when he walked up to his mandg officer and hand him a letter statg that he was gay.
But he ma a name for himself as a vol gay rights advote at a time when there weren't many.
THE HISTORY BEHD FAMO ‘GAY VIETNAM VETERAN’ HEADSTONE
___________________Also on The Huffgton Post:Gay Pri Around The World Popular the CommunyYou May Like. Gay and Lbian soldiers faced extraordary discrimatn durg World War II. Liebman and more than 9, 000 Amerin servicemembers, however, eventually were given a Sectn 8 "blue discharge" for beg homosexual.
07 | MYTHS OF WAR: GAY SERVICEMEN VIETNAM
The 1994 documentary Comg Out Unr Fire giv voice to the experienc of thoands of gay and lbian servicemembers who joed the ary durg World War II, a story that is largely ignored by historians and mms across the untry.