The U.S. Milary Once Proposed a “Gay” Bomb

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.

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”.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR '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 USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’

The 1994 project that sought to weaponise fabulonsPhoto by Brett Sayl om PexelsThe US ary has a long and storied history wh homosexualy.

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.

GAY CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR GETS 2ND BOMB THREAT THIS YEAR

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.

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.

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

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. [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.

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

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?

GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY

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.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

“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.

ENOLA GAY

The word “groomg” has long been associated wh mischaracterizg gay men as sexual abers of children. -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.

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.

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

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.

GAY BOMB

The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott.

THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED

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.

GAY BOMB

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. 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.

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

*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.

THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’

"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.

"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.