Eric Fanng, First Openly Gay Army Secretary, Confirmed by U.S. Senate

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ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

WASHINGTON -- Sce Maj. Gen. Tammy Smh, the ary’s hight-rankg openly gay officer, me out 2012, she has tried beg an example of livg... * gay military leader *

Tammy Smh, the ary’s hight-rankg openly gay officer, me out 2012, she has tried beg an example of livg thentilly while also beg a bean of visibily to other Soldiers and their fai.

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

Fanng was nfirmed late Tuday as secretary of the Army — the first openly gay man to hold that branch's hight rankg civilian posn. * gay military leader *

It terrified her to e out as gay such a public way, but she felt a rponsibily to do , she said.

ERIC FANNG, FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY, CONFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE

Eric Fanng is nfirmed five years after the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell", which banned openly gay US service members. * gay military leader *

As difficult as was for her, g out publicly as gay “may not have been as easy for someone who was at a lower rank, ” Smh said an terview last week.

FIRST OPENLY GAY US MILARY LEAR APPOTED

Soldiers reprentg the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny virtually celebrated Pri Month Thursday * gay military leader *

“When I me durg the 80s, thgs were different for women and gay people, and now 2021, the societal l are different aga.

“People mt fd fort and ph back some of that ternalized homophobia, and build a b on the journey between hont and thentic.

SENATE PANEL NFIRMS 1ST OPENLY GAY ARY SERVICE LEAR

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * gay military leader *

In an era before gay marriage or open pri, ary men fell love, formed passnate iendships and had same-sex enunters. Historians also thk he was homosexual—and served as an openly gay man the ary at a time when sex between men was punished as a crime.

”After the war, von Stben legally adopted both men—a mon practice among gay men an age before same-sex marriage was legal.

PRINT NOMAT FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY

John Mulligan, who was also gay, served as von Stben’s secretary and is thought to have had a relatnship wh the baron.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY

Durg von Stben’s lifetime, the ncept of gay marriage, gay pri or g out was unthkable and there was no language or open culture of homosexualy. But historil homosexual relatnships were actually don’t mean beg gay was ndoned: Sodomy was a crime lonial Ameri. Ary service — a tone not lost on gay rights groups, g five years after the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell, " which had prohibed gay and lbian service members om beg open about their Fanng at the 30th Space Symposium Corporate Partnership dner Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, May Wood / U.

Related: Obama to Nomate Eric Fanng for Army, Would Be 1st Openly Gay Service ChiefFanng prevly served as the Army secretary's prcipal adviser on management and operatn. "Related: First Openly Gay Army Secretary Nomee Stalled by Sgle SenatorFanng's path to the post began roughly eight months ago, but was stymied when Roberts held up nfirmatn. Many of our LGBTQ service members have given their liv for , like one of the first gay ary hero, Litenant Colonel John Lrens, who served durg the Amerin Revolutn.

NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW

Leonard Matlovich was the first gay man to ever disclose his sexual orientatn while servg the Uned Stat Air Force.

HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL

His picture, along wh the massive headle: “I Am a Homosexual, ” vered the September 8, 1975 edn of Time.

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