75 Years Ago: The Flight of the Enola Gay | Natnal Air and Space Mm

Contents:

• IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’
• GAY BOMB
• GAY CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR GETS 2ND BOMB THREAT THIS YEAR
• D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• ENOLA GAY
• THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
• GAY BOMB
• THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED
• GAY BOMB
• SCIENTISTS VELOPED 'GAY BOMB' TO MAKE ENEMY SOLDIERS STOP FIGHTG AND MAKE LOVE
• THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’

IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”

The ia of a gay bomb me om a sire to bilate and distract their opponents but not necsarily kill them.

Wikimedia CommonsThe gay bomb was a theoretil cloud of gas that would turn enemy soldiers gay. The gay bomb would be a cloud of gas that would be discharged over enemy mps “that ntaed a chemil that would e enemy soldiers to bee gay, and to have their uns break down bee all their soldiers beme irristibly attractive to one another.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

Dpe the drawbacks, for their work such an novative field, the rearchers who nceptualized the gay bomb were award the Ig Nobel Prize, a parody award which celebrat unual scientific achievements that “first make people lgh, and then make them thk.

The Ig Nobel peace prize went to the US Air Force’s Wright Laboratory Oh for s 1994 plan to velop a weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irristible to one another, an ia later dubbed the “gay bomb”. Details of the scheme were unvered a classified document (pdf) that suggts a strong aphrodisiac would be “pletely non-lethal” but uld be serly disptive “pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavur. The 1994 project that sought to weaponise fabulonsPhoto by Brett Sayl om PexelsThe US ary has a long and storied history wh homosexualy.

THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’

The earlit exampl of someone beg expelled om the ary for homosexual behavur e om Febary 1778.

He was expelled om the Contental Army by orr of none other than Gee Washgton ’s no surprise to fd rampant homophobia even at the natn’s ceptn, beg gay was not actually a crime the US ary until much later than many would assume.

While plenty of men were dishonourably discharged for beg gay throughout the 19th century, wouldn’t be until 1916 that ‘asslt wh the tent to m sodomy’ was listed as a crime. In 1920, this would be revised to any homosexual punishment for homosexual behavur was up to five years ary prison, the forfe of all pay and allowanc, and a dishonourable discharge, which n and of self lead to difficulti securg work, ary benefs, and even a WW1 homosexual acts were illegal unr martial law, but there was no outright ban on beg gay exactly. While beg gay was no longer illegal, tellg people you were gay, aternisatn and homosexual behavur would all get you dishonourably discharged.

GAY BOMB

1994 & Weaponisg FabulonsDon’t Ask Don’t Tell — Milary guidance posterDurg shortag of personnel, pecially WW2, the US ary would relax s screeng procs, allowg gay people back to ary service, but only for a time. The "halosis bomb" and "gay bomb" are rmal nam for two theoretil non-lethal chemil weapons that a Uned Stat Air Force rearch laboratory speculated about producg; the theori volve dischargg female sex pheromon over enemy forc orr to make them sexually attracted to each other.

Usg a bra imagg technique, Swedish rearchers have shown that homosexual and heterosexual mal' bras rpond differently to two odors that may be volved sexual aroal, and that the homosexual men rpond the same way as heterosexual women, though uld not be termed whether this was e or effect.

GAY CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR GETS 2ND BOMB THREAT THIS YEAR

[catn need] The study was expand to clu homosexual women; the rults were nsistent wh prev fdgs meang that homosexual women were not as rponsive to male intified odors, while their rponse to female cu was siar to that of heterosexual mal. In both of the documents, the possibily was nvassed that a strong aphrodisiac uld be dropped on enemy troops, ially one which would also e "homosexual behavr". Wright Laboratory won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "stigatg rearch & velopment on a chemil weapon—the so-lled 'gay bomb' / 'poof bomb' —that will make enemy soldiers bee sexually irristible to each other.

"Jonathan Kay on the Pentagon's plan to build a 'gay bomb': Why is this 2005 story news aga? A gay California lawmaker revealed Tuday that he received a bomb threat laced wh homophobic trop and rhetoric, amid a simmerg culture war that has sparked wispread anti-LGBTQ threats and attacks natnwi. “The extreme homophobic and transphobic rhetoric that has lated on social media and right wg media outlets has real world impacts.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., nservative activist Charlie Kirk and "others the MAGA nspiracy theory esystem" of cg vlence, and he lled on "rponsible polil lears on the right" to ll out and stop toleratg "extreme homophobic and transphobic rhetoric. Kirk did not immediately rpond to a requt for latt threat agast Wiener amid wispread bigoted rhetoric, threats and attacks directed at lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people across the months, many right-wg lawmakers, media personali and activists have acced LGBTQ people of “groomg, ” “doctratg” and “sexualizg” children. The word “groomg” has long been associated wh mischaracterizg gay men as sexual abers of children.

D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN

-based AARP Servic, Inc., an arm of the AARP that teracts wh bs supportive of the natn’s senrs, filed a ltle-noticed lawsu May 2018 chargg AARP Servic wh firg him bee he’s gay and married to a man. The lawsu says AARP allegedly fired at least one other gay employee, who also filed su and an out-of-urt settlement was reached.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

For 22 years and was discrimatorily fired by an anizatn that stat they are gay iendly, Rick believ that his story should be heard, ” Chambers said. 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. The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott.

GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY

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. The Begng or the End claimed the Amerin ary dropped warng leaflets about the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and that the Enola Gay me unr attack om Japane antiaircraft missile fire on s bombg n. Did not drop leaflets warng of the atomic bomb specifilly, though pilots may have dropped more general notic of impendg attacks on Hiroshima, and the Enola Gay did not e unr antiaircraft fire.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

I remember the Gay Bomb story, havg vered New Scientist a uple of years ago -- -- right after Noah ma his ial report -- and beg amed by the subsequent media tert.

*We know about the "Gay Bomb" bee of the Sunshe Project's work – and bee was bizarre and tchy enough to get the media's attentn. "One distasteful but non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavur, " says the proposal om the Air Force's Wright Laboratory Dayton, Pentagon did not ny that the proposal had been ma: "The partment of fence is mted to intifyg, rearchg and velopg non-lethal weapons that will support our men and women uniform.

ENOLA GAY

"Aaron Belk, director of the Universy of California's Michael Palm Centre, which studi the issue of gays the ary, said: "The ia that you uld subm someone to some aerosol spray and change their sexual behavur is ludicro. 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.

THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB

Japan officially surrenred on September 2, Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949.

Air Force, produced a three page proposal for a “gay bomb” Did the Actors Brg to Their Back to the Future: The Mil Performanc? It proposed a bomb “that ntaed a chemil that would e enemy soldiers to bee gay, and to have their uns break down bee all their soldiers beme irristibly attractive to one another”.

While the laboratory also me up wh siarly qutnable ias, such as bad-breath bombs, flatulence bombs and bombs signed to attract swarms of stgg sects to enemy batants, one has to adm that the gay bomb is certaly the most Pentagon matas that the love affair wh the gay bomb ia was brief.

GAY BOMB

When newly elected Print Bill Clton attempted to lift the ban on homosexuals the ary, there was a d of saber rattlg, pchfork sharpeng and moral hand-wrgg om the ary general nsens among many lears of the ary was touted by the Department of Defence, “Homosexualy is patible wh ary service. ” And that allowg gay people the ary would pose a secury risk and dispt the need orr for the ary to be rultg Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (later fully lled Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue, and Don’t Harass) promise, which has sce been stck down, was ls than thrillg for the Pentagon at such circumstanc, wh paranoia about gay people disptg ary disciple and morale, this project seems, notwhstandg s highly flawed premise, somewhat more unrstandable, at least terms of how they me up wh the to the science behd this ary farce, while var pani, peddlg scented sprays and b-ons, fd expedient to claim that their product ntas human pheromon which have an aphrodisiac effect, lab ttg has lagged behd somewhat actually nfirmg any of this. Admtedly, one sectn of the documents, entled “New Disveri Need” acknowledg that, th far, no such chemils have been found to the Gay Bomb project never beme perhaps more than a pie the sky dream of the Wright Lab, has gaed a send lease on life through news media, popular culture and even news of this proposed weapon of mass lov’ even spawned a mil, disappotgly entled “Gay Bomb – The Mil”.

Why they chose this tle, as opposed to say “Brothers--Arms”, “Das Booty”, or “Savg Ryan’s Privat” is a mystery we may never solve…For the attempt at makg a gay bomb, the Wright Lab had the honor of wng the Ig Nobel Peace Prize 2007. The levy of the event seemed lost on the gay bomb creators, however, who kept a straight face about the whole matter; they cled to attend the award ceremony to accept the prize personally. If you liked this article, you might also enjoy:When the Canadian Government Tried to Use “Gay Detectors” to Root Out Homosexual EmployeThe Only Major League Baseball Player to Openly Adm He was Gay Durg His Career Also is the Reason We Have the High FiveHow “Gay” Came to Mean “Homosexual”The Man Who Survived Two Nuclear Bomb AttacksBon Fact:One person, Sir Andre Geim, has actually won both an IG Nobel Prize ( 2000) and a real Nobel Prize ( 2010).

THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED

His actual Nobel Prize was won “for groundbreakg experiments regardg the two-dimensnal material graphene” Wright Lab was named after aviatn pneers Wilbur and Orville 1991, Dick Cheney, then the Secretary of Defense, dismissed the then mon ia that homosexuals the ary would somehow be disptive or pose a secury risk. The "gay bomb" would nta a chemil that would e enemy solirs to bee gay and fd one another sexually irristable, rultg the breakdown of their uns. Get the gay bomb rmal name for a theoretil non-lethal chemil weapon, which a Uned Stat Air Force rearch laboratory speculated about producg.

A strong aphrodisiac uld be dropped on enemy troops, ially one which would also e "homosexual behavur". An enemy uprisg was curbed yterday the Middle East when the US dropped the Gay Bomb on surgent troops, who promptly had a dance party and then got together for crab bisque and watched Brokeback T!!! M June 12, 2007Get the gay bomb When a relatively large group of homosexuals gather a public place to mgle wh each other, normally showg off how overly gay each one n act.

GAY BOMB

Ask if their drag queen iend Kty Lter would like to e along as the gay bomb one throws an IPod touch/IPhone playg a vio of gay porn at another as a joke. The one throwg the gay bomb, as well as the one gettg gay bombed, is normally not homosexual, makg a odd and awkward, yet funny suatn for both "Let me see your Ipod touch for a send, I have somethg to show you. "Ben: "Okay, "Thomas: (Throws an IPod touch at Ben playg a gay porn vio: "Cowboys ridg stallns" at full volume)Ben: "What the fuck!

SCIENTISTS VELOPED 'GAY BOMB' TO MAKE ENEMY SOLDIERS STOP FIGHTG AND MAKE LOVE

" It was supposed to turn s victims homosexual, the assumptn beg that enemy soldiers' new and stantaneo attractn to one another would superse the importance of even the most heated battle. You know those gays -- when any two meet, at any time, unr any circumstanc, they stantly start humpg, even if they're currently beg shot at. From his 2010 assertn that the ernment is creatg gay people through “a chemil warfare operatn” to his threat this year to e after drag performers wh torch “like the villagers the night, ” the nspiracy theorist Alex Jon has a long and well-documented history of flammatory speech aimed at the LGBTQ hateful speech, which at tim advot vlence, toward lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people is jt part of the reason Facebook, Google, Apple and Spotify have all taken steps to remove his ntent om their Monday, Facebook announced had taken down four of Jon' pag for “repeatedly postg ntent” that vlat the platform’s “muny standards.

“Along wh his outlandish li like llg the Sandy Hook massacre a hoax, Alex Jon has ed his platforms to ph untls false and hateful anti-LGBTQ myths, cludg that the Pulse nightclub massacre was the LGBTQ muny’s flt and promotg famatory misrmatn about transgenr people, ” said Zeke Stok, vice print of programs at GLAAD, an LGBTQ advocy group that has been documentg Jon’ anti-LGBTQ shootg at the gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, June 2016, left 49 people ad, and Jon' claim that the 2012 school massacre Newtown, Connecticut, was staged led the fai of the victims to sue him for Jon' ments about the muny have n the gamut, there have been several recurrg them over the years. HOMOSEXUALITY: “A CHEMICAL WARFARE OPERATION”For at least the past eight years, Jon has been peddlg a nspiracy theory that chemils are secretly beg ed to make people gay.

THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’

“The reason there's so many gay people now is bee 's a chemil warfare operatn, and I have the ernment documents where they said they're gog to enurage homosexualy wh chemils so that people don't have children, ” Jon said June 2010, whout ever releasg any ’s not only humans that are affected by this vast ernment nspiracy, acrdg to Jon. “I don’t like them puttg chemils the water that turn the igg’ ogs gay, ” Jon said durg a 2015 rant about a chemil “gay bomb. ”In September 2017, Jon claimed “the majory of ogs most areas of the Uned Stat are now gay” — prumably after years of beg exposed to the secret ernment June, Jon reaffirmed his support for this “chemil warfare” theory, claimg on his rad show that the Pentagon had veloped “weaponized perfum” that “will make men attracted to other men, and they want you to do that so you don’t have kids.

Mar Rub, R-Fla., may have engaged wh gay prostut the ’ also lnched an anti-gay tira agast Rep.