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Contents:
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- LNCH MOBILE APP FOR GAY SERVICE MEMBERS
- GAY MILARY DATG APP
- GAY MILARY DATG APP
- LONELY GAY SOLDIERS? THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT!
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 military apps *
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.
LNCH MOBILE APP FOR GAY SERVICE MEMBERS
The new mobile app giv gay service members a powerful tool to fd and nnect wh one another right on their smartphone, they n... * gay military apps *
"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 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.
GAY MILARY DATG APP
Seventeen years which gay servicemen have existed a paradoxil kd of herworld. Servicemen were advised that until then the policy would still apply, and that they uld potentially face s sanctns if they intify themselv publicly as gay. ’ "Air Force #1: "Two of my iends were disvered, both officers—’s a long and arduo procs for an officer to get kicked out for beg gay.
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"Air Force #2 (senr airman, three years): "No one at my job would ever, ever spect that I was gay at all.
And you’re good at your job—a gay person wouldn’t be good at his job, so obvly you’re not gay.
LONELY GAY SOLDIERS? THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT!
You’re a Mare, you don’t md gettg dirty, gog out to the field and not showerg for weeks at a, if you were gay, when you have to shower wh all the other guys you’d get all exced. You’re not gettg exced so you’re clearly not gay. I mean, if you want to hi, the Mare Corps is one of the bt plac to do that, bee nobody wants to adm they are standg next to a gay guy.
Nobody wants to adm that they have gone to war wh gay people. I had ma about halfway through and the recer was trated wh how long was takg me, and he said, ’Well, basilly, are you gay?