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The U.S. Army has announced the promotn of a "gay" officer to the rank of general. by Dave Bohon

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THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY

* highest ranking gay military officer *

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 policy banned lbians, gay men and bisexuals om servg the ary. It terrified her to e out as gay such a public way, but she felt a rponsibily to do , she said.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

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.”.

GAY GENERAL HID PRIVATE LIFE OM ARMY FOR YEARS

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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.

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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forc, ” said Chad Griff, the print of the Human Rights Campaign, the largt gay-rights anizatn the U. ”In 2011, Congrs repealed the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that sce 1994 banned openly gay men and women om servg the U.

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