After the Enola Gay beme the first plane to drop an atomic bomb — on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945 — the B-29 bomber stayed airborne.
Contents:
- OUT OF THE CLOSET AND ON TO THE NWAY: GAY PILOTS
- A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS
- GAY PILOT GIV BIZARRE RANT ON PLANE’S PA SYSTEM
- GEE H. GAY, 77; WAS SOLE SURVIVOR IN A MIDWAY ATTACK
- OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAVG NAVY AFTER HARASSMENT
- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
- ENOLA GAY
- JOHN TRAVOLTA HAD SIX-YEAR GAY AFFAIR WH ME, CALIFORNIA PILOT DOUG GOTTERBA ALLEG REPORT THAT ACTOR'S MP LLS 'RIDICULO'
- TRAVELLG THE WORLD WH GAY PILOT PATRICK
- HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
- 'I DON'T FEEL PART OF THE MILARY ANYMORE': OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAV AFTER HARASSMENT
- JOHN TRAVOLTA ADDRS FORMER PILOT'S GAY ROMANCE ALLEGATNS PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME: 'THAT WAS THE LOWT I'D EVER FELT'
OUT OF THE CLOSET AND ON TO THE NWAY: GAY PILOTS
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Many are unaware of the ia that Santos-Dumont was gay.
The history of homosexualy and aviatn is not wily rearched or for that matter acknowledged, yet there is a rich history volvg this quiet group the field startg wh one of the first pneers. The aviatn muny is startg to foc on this group of dividuals startg wh the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn (NGPA).
Formed twenty years ago, the NGPA’s missn is to enurage gays and lbians to enter to the field of aviatn through tn, outreach programm and social events.
A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS
Enola Gay, the B-29 heavy bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target, and stroyed most of the cy. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Pl Warfield Tibbets, Jr. * pilot gay *
” Unfortunately this rgs te as gays and lbians still fight for social equaly. You don’t have to be gay to be part of the anisatn, but you need to be supportive of the lbian and gay muny. ” The NGPA provis an avenue for formg allianc wh bs and airl wh the aviatn muny while matag a fortable environment for gays and lbians to reach out for support.
Unable to see anythg of the statn I’d flown so far to reach, I’d s at my hotel-room sk as I worked on my latt book, “Image a Cy: A Pilot’s Journey Across the Urban World, ” a memoir about growg up as a gay kid a small place and a pilot’s love letter to great metropolis, and wonred if might soon read as a memorial to a pla that had permanently, late sprg and wh most panmic rtrictns lifted, Montreal is bloomg.
GAY PILOT GIV BIZARRE RANT ON PLANE’S PA SYSTEM
The California pilot who claims he had a high-flyg gay affair wh actor John Travolta is airg new tails about their alleged six-year relatnship. In a Natnal Enquirer story labeled “ridiculo” by Travolta’s mp, pilot Doug Gotterba said he first met the “Grease” star Febary 1981 when he terviewed for a pilot job – and by September they were lovers. * pilot gay *
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Whatever the tth of Melville’s sexualy — as Andrew Delban not “Melville: His World and Work, ” ’s not easy to separate the tantalizg clu om the rponse of “gay rears who fd themselv drawn to him” — somethg impelled him to set out for the open ocean and the wonrs of distant ci. When his flight land, his cellular service returned and he noticed a new notifitn on the gay datg app.
GEE H. GAY, 77; WAS SOLE SURVIVOR IN A MIDWAY ATTACK
Pilot Patrick is a gay pilot based Berl. He began bloggg about his life 2016 and built up a big followg. * pilot gay *
Thorn said that acrdg to the gay datg app, the man was 90 feet away om him, and the man’s profile featur a photo of the sky taken om the ckp. Gay, 77; Was Sole Survivor In a Midway Attack ADVERTISEMENTOct. Gay Jr., a pilot who was the only survivor of his torpedo squadron the battle of Midway, and who drifted the sea as the most important naval battle of World War II unfold around him, died on Friday at Kenntone Hospal here.
Gay flew a Douglas Devastator torpedo plane an attack on Japane warships near Midway Island on June 4, the plan his squadron were shot down, and he was the only one of 30 men Torpedo Squadron 8 to survive. Gay watched the Amerin dive bombers hurtle out of the clouds to attack Japane aircraft rriers and found himself "cheerg and hollerg wh every h. Gay ma personal appearanc for the Navy, spreadg the news of the victory at Midway.
That victory -- achieved by an Amerin fleet wh only three heavy rriers agast four heavy Japane rriers and three light on -- was a turng pot the war that Gay was a Trans World Airl pilot for 30 years after the war. Gay toured the untry wh the film's stars, Charlton Hton and Henry Fonda, to promote the film. A native of Wa, Tex., he eventually moved to is survived by his wife, Esther Huffman Bevacqua Gay, and two stepchildren.
OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAVG NAVY AFTER HARASSMENT
Bound for sty and Hiroshima, the Enola Gay rried 12 men, hope, and the power for epic stctn. The silver airplane, named for the pilot’s mother, barely got off the ground that morng wh the world’s first atomic bomb. * pilot gay *
Gay, 77; Was Sole Survivor In a Midway Attack. A after the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy end, one of Naval aviatn’s handful of openly gay pilots is on his way out.
Adam Adamski said he felt supported as an openly gay pilot. Openly Gay Pilot Leavg Navy After Harassment. And I saw my drs wh draped over and around the TV and there was hard-re gay porn playg.
“Both men and women and openly gay service members. VID: Openly Gay Pilot Leavg Navy After Harassment.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
The ma premise is que siar: two lovers an extremely homophobic environment form a bubble where their love n thrive through stealg time om their own ordary obligtns to keep their love alive. The ntext is slightly different, sce we're alg wh a Cold-War airforce Rsia where homosexualy is punishable by prison.
After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. The Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortrs, which pilot Pl Tibbets named after his mother, and which had been stripped of everythg but the necsi, so as to be thoands of pounds lighter than an ordary plane of that make. While did not drop the bomb on Nagasaki, the Enola Gay did take flight to get data on the weather the lead-up to the send strike on Japan.
In the aftermath of World War II, the Army Air Forc flew the Enola Gay durg an atomic tt program the Pacific; was then livered to be stored an airfield Arizona before beg flown to Illois and transferred to the Smhsonian July 1949.
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But even unr the ctody of the mm, the Enola Gay remaed at an air force base Texas. The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott.
JOHN TRAVOLTA HAD SIX-YEAR GAY AFFAIR WH ME, CALIFORNIA PILOT DOUG GOTTERBA ALLEG REPORT THAT ACTOR'S MP LLS 'RIDICULO'
Adams, who is leavg his job after 10 relatively ntroversy-ee years, sent back a three-page answer stiffly turng down her requt for the Enola Gay. Demonstrators prott at the Enola Gay exhib at the the Smhsonian Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F. And as long as is on display, the qutns rais are likely to ntue — after all, they have been wh the Enola Gay sce first beme a hoehold name.
TRAVELLG THE WORLD WH GAY PILOT PATRICK
Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target. ” The Enola Gay—Tibbets had a matenance man pat that name on the aircraft’s nose shortly before takeoff—was acpanied by var other plan.
Tibbets flew the Enola Gay back to Tian, where he was award the Distguished Service Cross.
Three days later the Enola Gay nducted weather rennaissance the lead-up to the bombg of Nagasaki, Japan. Japan officially surrenred on September 2, Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949.
HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F.
The California pilot who claims he had a high-flyg gay affair wh actor John Travolta is airg new tails about their alleged six-year a Natnal Enquirer story labeled "ridiculo" by Travolta's mp, pilot Doug Gotterba said he first met the "Grease" star Febary 1981 when he terviewed for a pilot job – and by September they were lovers. Now substute the term LGBTQ+ for left-hand, and you have the plight of many gay persons—we e the term gay clively here. This is part the reason behd the creatn of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn.
The Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, the worldwi LGBTQ+ aviatn muny, was tablished 1990 primarily as a social anizatn. June is a by month for the anizatn bee is Pri Month, marked by paras and other celebratns held around the world to regnize the impact that lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals have had on history. It is celebrated June to memorate the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan, New York, which was a turng pot for the Gay Liberatn Movement the Uned Stat.
'I DON'T FEEL PART OF THE MILARY ANYMORE': OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAV AFTER HARASSMENT
”Brian Gambo, print, Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn.
He not that NGPA events give LGBTQ+ aviators a chance to relax and be themselv—and sometim that is difficult to do the aviatn workplace where they may enunter bigotry, homophobia, and transphobia. It n manift the form of a worker g the word “gay” as a pejorative adjective or when someone misgenr-intifi someone by g the wrong pronouns or “adnam” them, the practice of g the former name of a transgenr dividual rather than the name they have chosen that better aligns wh their inty. “For example, you might be on a four–day trip and have to spend hours and hours the ckp wh someone who is homophobic, and you have to judge the suatn and pick your battl.
JOHN TRAVOLTA ADDRS FORMER PILOT'S GAY ROMANCE ALLEGATNS PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME: 'THAT WAS THE LOWT I'D EVER FELT'
The NGPA has a homophobia and transphobia reportg le where people who have had negative teractns the workplace n share them, perhaps as a warng to others about what to expect at a particular bs. Warfield intified as gay growg up and when she me out to her fay, they said, “We love you, and we want you to be happy.
They have been together for 28 years and were officially married October 2013, when gay marriage was legalized Washgton state.