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• GENERAL SAYS 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT': THE ONN (VIDEO)
• REPEAL OF 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL' PAV WAY FOR GAY SEX RIGHT ON BATTLEFIELD, OPPONENTS FANTASIZE
• 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT,' SAYS GENERAL
• MILARY'S GAY POLICY BEG REEVALUATED
• THE ONN - 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT'
• PENTAGON BRASS SUPPORTS GAYS IN MILARY
• ONN TAK ON GAYS THE MILARY
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
• 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK COMBAT' SAYS GENERAL
• GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS
• I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.

GENERAL SAYS 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT': THE ONN (VIDEO)

In light of the recent ph to beg repealg, "Don't ask, Don't tell, " the law banng gays the ary, the Onn News Network is takg a look back at a report they aired a year ago examg a ls talked about argument for why the ary is reluctant to let gays serve: they're jt "too prec to risk bat. "One general terviewed was blunt: Gay people are different. Unr no circumstanc n we put Ameri's homosexuals Ameri are the only group Ameri left untouched by war.

Notg that the liv of seven soldiers is worth the life of one gay man, the general was also quick to pot out the risk of damage to the gays' "agile psych": Nor should their agile psych be subjected to the horrible sights that occur on the battlefield. WATCH:RelatedgaysedyViodon't ask don't tellThe OnnPopular the CommunyYou May Like.

WASHINGTON—As Congrs prepar to allow gay dividuals to serve openly the ary, those agast the proposed change voiced their ncerns Monday, warng the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" uld soon lead to strong, strappg Amerin soldiers engagg md-blowg homosexual terurse right on the Week's Most Viral News: July 28, 2023OffEnglish"We're sendg our soldiers out there wh a missn, and that missn is to protect this untry, " said Rep. "Others have argued that allowg gay soldiers to ph their liftyle on others, ttg the lims of pleasure a man n take before he epts unntrollable ecstasy, would serly damage morale. "Many active-duty service members told reporters allowg gay dividuals to be open about their sexualy would rult great disfort among platoons overseas.

REPEAL OF 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL' PAV WAY FOR GAY SEX RIGHT ON BATTLEFIELD, OPPONENTS FANTASIZE

Ted Stevens (R-AK), who over the urse of several days repeatedly screened the gay pornographic film Thrill Sergeant and mand to know if his lleagu liked that sort of opponents argued that future bat missns might slowly beg like this scene om 'Traed To Obey'This May, Sen. John McCa (R-AZ) promised voters he would do everythg his power to prevent gays om servg openly the armed forc, and on Thursday, he told reporters that the role of the ary is to fend Amerin eedoms, not "the rights of, you know, those people some of stay up all night thkg about as we toss and turn. Some of the homosexuals lock themselv below ck and beg touchg themselv, " said the 73-year-old senator and Vietnam War veteran, his breath quickeng.

'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT,' SAYS GENERAL

The Obama admistratn is the early stag of revampg the policy for gays the ary. "The are important steps toward the day when Ameri will fally have s first openly gay battlhip. "Charl Duvall • Reactor OperatorThis Week's Most Viral News: July 28, 2023OffEnglish"I'm not sure I support a policy allowg openly gay people to serve.

I thk my son might be gay, and I would like to be proud of him for at least some reason. Ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L. Rights Vcenz rryg a plard prottg the ary’s ban on gay people while picketg the Pentagon July 1965.

Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L. She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance.

MILARY'S GAY POLICY BEG REEVALUATED

In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s. “After leavg the WAC, ” she said an terview wh the se Gay Today, “I actually felt ee to be me. Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy.

THE ONN - 'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK IN COMBAT'

” she told Gay Today about her early efforts wh the society. “Be wh gay people, help the movement, help unmask the li beg told about , rrect the notn of homosexualy as a sickns and prent as is, a betiful way to love. Vcenz beme the edor of the Mattache Society’s monthly newsletter, The Homosexual Cizen.

In 1969, she and another activist, Nancy Tucker, spun off a newspaper of their own, The Gay Bla, which beme the Washgton Bla, the untry’s olst L.

Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr.

PENTAGON BRASS SUPPORTS GAYS IN MILARY

Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic.

ONN TAK ON GAYS THE MILARY

“The whole notn of gay people publicly exprsg their sentiments that fashn was beyond nceptualizatn until we started dog , ” the Mattache Society’s -founr, Frankl E. ”Her send film, “Gay and Proud, ” documented the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Para 1970, a memoratn of the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg Manhattan.

The uprisg, after a police raid at Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village, was a turng pot the gay rights movement. “Gay and Proud” shows a much larger, and shaggier, gatherg of protters takg a more ant stance the para, chantg fiantly and wavg plards wh msag like “I am a lbian and I am betiful.

”In addn to providg a “val piece of gay history, ” Ms.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

Vcenz’s films “gave visual documentatn of the astonishg distance that the gay movement had traveled between 1968 and 1970. “I fd a privilege to work wh gay people, ” she PrsLilli Marie Vcenz was born Hamburg, Germany, on Sept. J., Vcenz regnized her sexualy early on, she said a 2008 terview, and “ beme paful after a while to realize that I was gay and I didn’t know anyone else who was gay.

But after a stt as an edor the book publishg dtry, she cid to jo the Army, part bee she had heard was “a hotbed of gay people, ” acrdg to Ms. Farman’s putative hotbed, however, had a policy banng gay people om service, and she was thrown out while trag as a nropsychiatric technician at the Walter Reed ary hospal the 1970s, Dr. Vcenz ran a weekly discsn ssn lled the Gay Women’s Open Hoe, which functned as a marketplace of ias and sanctuary of sorts for lbians the Washgton area.

'GAYS TOO PREC TO RISK COMBAT' SAYS GENERAL

Vcenz cid to take a more timate approach to helpg gay people their stggl. “I fd a privilege to work wh gay people who are, general, so much more urageo, novative and open to new ias than the average straight person, ” she told Gay Today. It was Washgton — not Bethda, Md., where is we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the New York edn wh the headle: Lilli Vcenz, a Trailblazer the Gay Rights Movement, Di at 85.

McBrayer discs how valuable homosexuals are, and why we mt never put their liv at risk by allowg them the ary. gays.

Defense Secretary Robert Gat and Jot Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen both spoke out favor of Obama's ll to lift the "don't ask, don't tell" policy and allow gays to serve openly the ary. " Will Greenberg • Double-Needle StcherThis Week's Most Viral News: July 28, 2023OffEnglish"Allowg gays to serve openly the Army is a long overdue reform, but mt be acpanied by an assurance that heterosexuals will be able to serve openly the Navy. Gay Milary Rec Disappoted To Learn That Beg Naval Jet Pilot Involv Much Ls Shirtls Volleyball Than He’d Been Led To Believe.

GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS

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. 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.

I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.

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