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I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them. I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier. That's how you end up wh ras playg "gay chicken, " as Roger, a former mare who fought Iraq, told .
"Who n do the gayt thg? Wouldn't that technilly be gay rooster?
Those outlets clud endls jok about the alleged flamg gayns of someone, bee no matter how society's view of homosexualy chang, teenagers are gog to make gay jok until the end of time. No one was around when happened, and absolutely was not a se of 'gay chicken. " And here's where all of the weird homoerotic horseplay factors : Any plat about an cint like this n be wrten off as "Boys will be boys.