The U.S. ary ed a range of ver charg to target gay and lbian service members for their sexualy, a CBS News vtigatn has found.
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- I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.
- ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
- 'I DON'T FEEL PART OF THE MILARY ANYMORE': OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAV AFTER HARASSMENT
- NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
- PRINT NOMAT FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY
- GAYS THE MILARY
- THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY
- AIR FORCE VETERAN ONCE IMPRISONED FOR BEG GAY STILL ENDUR THE STIGMA OF A FELONY RERD
- ERIC FANNG, FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY, CONFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- WOMAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL
I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.
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... * openly gay military *
In rponse, and apparently to monstrate his petency his assigned posn, the nonmissned officer had taken upon himself to approach the person he nsired cled toward mtg a siar offense the future: me, the only openly gay soldier my un. Together we approached our un’s learship, where she sisted that the ments had stemmed om the reprentative’s own homophobic feelgs and remend that he be reprimand and removed om his posn as the un’s sexual harassment watchdog. But by then was hard to ignore the anxiety I felt durg required social activi — “mandatory fun, ” as ’s lled the ary — or the tensn om my fellow moment I cid to bee a soldier and the moment I chose to live openly as a gay man occurred so closely time that ’s hard to remember which me first.
ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS
One of Naval Aviatn's few openly gay pilots is leavg his ary reer behd after only six years, cg harassment as the reason. * openly gay military *
It was still four months before the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” a double-edged policy prohibg askg any service member about his or her sexualy while enforcg a ban on openly gay service members. Mike and Abe were to mentor me on how to survive as a gay serviceman.
As long as gay soldiers kept their mouths shut, the burn of proof fell on those makg the accatns. A uple were more elaborate: tailed scriptns of what might happen to me if I was ught alone, and proclamatns about the wrongns of gays the ary. There are moments when feels wrong to claim my stat as a veteran; as if beg gay ma me ls of a soldier and somehow validated my service.
Every memory evok an emotn: rage that I had to serve wh a nstant sense of fear of my fellow soldiers; paralyzg sadns for those who endured ab worse than I n know; and, the worst, guilt over the service members — gay or straight or transgenr — who died while servg the ary while my body is still whole. Sce 2011, openly gay, lbian and bisexual men and women have been permted to serve the ary. It wasn’t until 1982 that the ary enacted a policy explicly banng gay men and lbians om their ranks.
'I DON'T FEEL PART OF THE MILARY ANYMORE': OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAV AFTER HARASSMENT
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And the early 1940s, was classified as a mental illns, disqualifyg gay men and lbians om service.
NAVY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SEAL BUILDS HIS LIFE ANEW
Fanng was nfirmed late Tuday as secretary of the Army — the first openly gay man to hold that branch's hight rankg civilian posn. * openly gay military *
Eighteen years later, Congrs repealed the policy, allowg openly gay, lbian and bisexual people to serve the ary. 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.
PRINT NOMAT FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * openly gay military *
The policy banned lbians, gay men and bisexuals om servg the ary.
GAYS THE MILARY
U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * openly gay military *
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.
THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY U.S. HISTORY
'I Don't Feel Part Of The Milary Anymore': Openly Gay Pilot Leav After Harassment One of Naval Aviatn's few openly gay pilots is leavg his ary reer behd after only six years, cg harassment as the reason. 'I Don't Feel Part Of The Milary Anymore': Openly Gay Pilot Leav After Harassment. One of Naval Aviatn's few openly gay pilots is leavg his ary reer behd after only six years, cg harassment as the reason.
AIR FORCE VETERAN ONCE IMPRISONED FOR BEG GAY STILL ENDUR THE STIGMA OF A FELONY RERD
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A after "don't ask, don't tell" end, one of Naval aviatn's few openly gay pilots is on his way out.
ERIC FANNG, FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY, CONFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE
KPBS' Steve Walsh has the WALSH, BYLINE: For most of his six years the Navy, Litenant Adam Adamski says he felt supported as an openly gay pilot. And I saw my drs wh draped over and around the TV, and there was hardre gay porn His uniform was wrapped around a TV playg pornography.
ADAMSKI: I received numero lls om people that are the closet that squadron, both men and women, and openly gay service members tellg me that they are upset and that they don't thk the climate, pecially for pilots, is a good climate that squadron and that they thk I should report The don't ask, don't tell policy end a ago, allowg LGBT service members to serve openly. 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. When he was high school, his mother, a vout Christian, overheard his phone nversatn wh a gay next day, Jon says, his parents nonted him.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
He asked his son, “Brett, are you a homosexual? “My mom told me homosexuals go straight to hell, ” Jon says.
He had served for six years and two ployments on mandg, secretive missns when his homosexualy was was the “don’t ask, don’t tell” era.
WOMAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL
He was terrogated by a ary lawyer who mand he nfs to beg gay. They gossiped about him, ridiculg gays and sayg a homosexual SEAL would stroy un Navy dropped s vtigatn after Jon enlisted a natnal group that advot for gays the ary, and after members of Congrs tervened.
Last December, they drove to Indiana to be married by a urt, 37, had lived his own secret, tormented life growg up Athens, where gays were ridiculed and monized. His father cracked jok about homos and day Whe cid to e out, he says, “I told my dad and he stood up and I was bracg for a punch. ” His father apologized for all his gay slurs over the and his brother, Matt, helped nvce Jon to self-publish a memoir, “Pri: The Story of the First Openly Gay Navy SEAL, ” released October.