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Contents:

• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• ERIC FANNG, FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY, CONFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE
• FIRST OPENLY GAY US MILARY LEAR APPOTED
• SENATE PANEL NFIRMS 1ST OPENLY GAY ARY SERVICE LEAR
• PRINT NOMAT FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY
• NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
• HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

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

“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. In an era before gay marriage or open pri, ary men fell love, formed passnate iendships and had same-sex enunters.

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

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

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.

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

Leonard Matlovich was the first gay man to ever disclose his sexual orientatn while servg the Uned Stat Air Force. His picture, along wh the massive headle: “I Am a Homosexual, ” vered the September 8, 1975 edn of Time.

The false allegatns stemmed om public dislike of his prumed homosexualy, a dangero and irrponsible nflatn that is not all too unmon morn tim. He was forced to live as a gay man secrecy, preventg him om gettg the proper regnn for his achievements and succs. Turng’s prosecutn for beg gay will live famy after all of the valiant efforts he ma to save hundreds of liv.

FIRST OPENLY GAY US MILARY LEAR APPOTED

Not only that, but she is also a gay rights activist and me out as beg a lbian for the first time durg a secury clearance terview. The US ary has s first openly gay civilian lear after Eric Fanng was appoted as Army Senate unanimoly nfirmed Mr Fanng, 47, eight months after Print Barack Obama nomated him. Senator Pat Roberts had been objectg to the nfirmatn, exprsg ncern that the Obama admistratn might try to transfer prisoners om the tentn centre to his home state of Fanng's approval marks another tone for the gay rights movement, five years after the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell", which banned openly gay and lbian US service members.

Charl Crail/ArmyIn addn to his long rume, Fanng would also mark a tone if he do bee the Army secretary, as the first openly gay secretary of a ary, a statement, ngratulated Fanng, llg him "an excellent choice. ”A earlier, the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” allowed gays and lbians to serve openly after centuri of hidg, persecutn and dishonorable, we salute some of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer service members who paved the way for a more clive force.

SENATE PANEL NFIRMS 1ST OPENLY GAY ARY SERVICE LEAR

Ralph Earl via Getty ImagWhout this gay ary geni, the Contental army might not have won the Revolutnary War. Friedrich von Stben joed the Pssian army as a teen, eventually beg an ai--mp to Frerick the Great, who was also mored to be gay. But In 1763, at 33, Stben was unceremonly discharged “unr a cloud, hound by accatns of havg relatns wh young men, ” acrdg to The Gay and Lbian Review.

C., and the Stben Para, held each September down New York’s Fifth KamenyFrank Kameny Kennedy / Tribune News Service via Getty ImagOne of the Foundg Fathers of the morn gay rights movement, Frank Kameny enlisted the Army 1943, servg Europe throughout World War II. After the war, he earned a doctorate at Harvard Universy and tght astronomy at Geetown Universy, In 1957, Kameny had jt started workg for the Army Map Service, wh hop of beg an astront, when he was termated after vtigators unvered evince he was a, then 32, appealed the firg, argug that flatly labelg gay people a secury risk was “no ls od than discrimatn based upon relig or racial grounds. The jtic refed to hear the appeal, but marked the first time the high urt even nsired a civil rights se based on sexual orientatn — and galvanized Kameny to beg a lifelong activist for equaly for gays and years later, 1965, Kameny, Kay Tob and Barbara Gtgs started the Annual Remrs, the first anized picket protts for gay rights Ameri, held at Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall.

In the 1970s, Kameny bee the first openly gay ndidate for Congrs and challenged the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s diagnosis of homosexualy as a mental disorr, acrdg to a 2015 Department of Labor 2009, the U. Wh urage and strength, you fought back, ” said OPM Director John Berry, himself an out gay man, the Washgton Post December 2010, Kameny was ved to the Whe Hoe to wns Print Barack Obama sign the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” to law.

PRINT NOMAT FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY

”Fannie Mae Clackum Though ls well known than Kameny, Clackum beme the first service member to succsfully challenge a ary discharge on the grounds of homosexualy.

”While the lg Clackum’s favor turned on due procs, rather than a rejectn of the ban on gays the ary, was the first time the Armed Forc had to answer for attacks on LGBTQ service MilkHarvey Milk outsi his mera shop San Francis 1977. Bettmann ArchiveThough Harvey Milk is better known for his stnch gay activism, polil reer and tragic assassatn, he enlisted the U.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY

Rather than face a urt-martial over his homosexualy, Milk was prsured to acceptg an “other than honorable” discharge. That ugly dismissal cut Milk loose to pursue other terts — he tght high school on Long Island, worked at an surance firm and Wall Street brokerage New York Cy and ultimately opened a mera shop on Castro Street San Francis, where his activist reer began was one of the first openly gay elected officials the U. But that omissn is what ma the Senate’s cisn to nfirm Fanng as the 22nd Army secretary this week such a historic moment: Fanng is now the first openly gay lear of a U.

Ary service, and the hight-rankg openly gay Pentagon official the untry’s Senate nfirmed Fanng by unanimo voice vote on Tuday, eight months after Print Obama nomated him to replace John McHugh, who held the posn for six years. Army is a monstratn of the ntued progrs towards fairns and equaly our natn’s armed forc, ” said Chad Griff, the print of the Human Rights Campaign, the largt gay-rights anizatn the U.

NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW

”In 2011, Congrs repealed the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that sce 1994 banned openly gay men and women om servg the U. To date, there have been five openly LGBTQ+ people who have served as a natnal head of ernment, Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Serbia -- but gay, bisexual, lbian, and even transgenr lears have guid natns sce time immemorial. That he sat on the throne named Neferkare leads many scholars to believe the tale Kg Neferkare and General Sase, which scrib a gay relatnship between a pharaoh and his general, was fact about Pepi, though Egyptologists ntue to bate if the story was tth or fictn.

The dictator of the cy of Athens 514, Hipparch had ma a sexual advance toward the openly gay Harmodi and was rejected multiple tim, acrdg to historian Thucydis. The ler of England om 1087 to 1100, Kg William II was gay, acrdg to the wrer Eadmer, though effemate mannerisms and fashn choic seemed his primary evince.

Richard the Lnheart has been picted as gay books and films, most famoly by Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter. Much of the talk of his purported homosexualy stems om the time he spent wh Kg Phillip II of France 1187. The grand de of Tny om 1621 until 1670, Ferdando married and produced children, but also quarreled wh his mother, Maria Madla of Atria, about whether homosexualy should be outlawed.

HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL

Historians say the mother once gave her son a list of reported gay people and said that they should be burned. Likely Ameri's first gay print, Democrat Jam Buchanan won the electn of 1856 -- rallyg support om the slaveholdg stat the origal Southern Strategy.

In addn to beg the first openly gay prime mister of the island natn, the 38-year-old was the youngt head of ernment for the untry and the first member of an ethnic mory to hold the post (his father is an Indian immigrant).

The two men are parents to Ethan, a prec 13-year-old known the flat, clay and pe untry as the only kid school wh two gay first openly gay SEAL has built a new life here at age 41 wh a fay that has replaced the two fai he lost — the one that raised him and the one he built wh fellow SEALs. Both his parents and the Navy banished him bee he’s this steamy night, the two gay parents and their straight son are sweatg and shovg as they fight to w a roughhoe driveway basketball game lled Cheater Ball. They are close, and necsarily so, sce a gay marriage — not to mentn gay parentg — is viewed wh ep spicn and outright hostily perhaps the most anti-gay state the Jon and Whe attend Ethan’s baseball gam, they say, ach and other parents barely speak to them.