The Revolutnary War Hero Who Was Openly Gay | HISTORY

Contents:

• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL
• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• THE HISTORY BEHD FAMO ‘GAY VIETNAM VETERAN’ HEADSTONE
• THUNR WAIV RUDY GAY, PER REPORT, CLEARG WAY FOR JACK WHE

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

Many of our LGBTQ service members have given their liv for , like one of the first gay ary hero, Litenant Colonel John Lrens, who served durg the Amerin Revolutn. ”A earlier, the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” allowed gays and lbians to serve openly after centuri of hidg, persecutn and dishonorable, we salute some of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer service members who paved the way for a more clive force.

C., and the Stben Para, held each September down New York’s Fifth KamenyFrank Kameny Kennedy / Tribune News Service via Getty ImagOne of the Foundg Fathers of the morn gay rights movement, Frank Kameny enlisted the Army 1943, servg Europe throughout World War II.

After the war, he earned a doctorate at Harvard Universy and tght astronomy at Geetown Universy, In 1957, Kameny had jt started workg for the Army Map Service, wh hop of beg an astront, when he was termated after vtigators unvered evince he was a, then 32, appealed the firg, argug that flatly labelg gay people a secury risk was “no ls od than discrimatn based upon relig or racial grounds. The jtic refed to hear the appeal, but marked the first time the high urt even nsired a civil rights se based on sexual orientatn — and galvanized Kameny to beg a lifelong activist for equaly for gays and years later, 1965, Kameny, Kay Tob and Barbara Gtgs started the Annual Remrs, the first anized picket protts for gay rights Ameri, held at Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall.

HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERAL

In the 1970s, Kameny bee the first openly gay ndidate for Congrs and challenged the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s diagnosis of homosexualy as a mental disorr, acrdg to a 2015 Department of Labor 2009, the U.

Wh urage and strength, you fought back, ” said OPM Director John Berry, himself an out gay man, the Washgton Post December 2010, Kameny was ved to the Whe Hoe to wns Print Barack Obama sign the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” to law. ”Fannie Mae Clackum Though ls well known than Kameny, Clackum beme the first service member to succsfully challenge a ary discharge on the grounds of homosexualy. ”While the lg Clackum’s favor turned on due procs, rather than a rejectn of the ban on gays the ary, was the first time the Armed Forc had to answer for attacks on LGBTQ service MilkHarvey Milk outsi his mera shop San Francis 1977.

That ugly dismissal cut Milk loose to pursue other terts — he tght high school on Long Island, worked at an surance firm and Wall Street brokerage New York Cy and ultimately opened a mera shop on Castro Street San Francis, where his activist reer began was one of the first openly gay elected officials the U.

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

This Memorial Day weekend, we’re takg time to memorate the liv and ntributns of LGBTQ+ service members, those who fought for our untry while fightg the stigma that me wh “servg while gay. What the world didn’t know, until 2010 and after his ath, was that Bernste was the thor of a 149-page unpublished mancript tled Millns of Queers (Our Homo Ameri), wrten the same year he enlisted. He also found — wh his assumptn of the tl José I, Emprs and Widow Norton — the Imperial Court System, the natnwi gay charable anizatn that ntu to thrive today.

THE HISTORY BEHD FAMO ‘GAY VIETNAM VETERAN’ HEADSTONE

Kay Tob / New York Public Library LGBTQ pneer Frank Kameny, wh his “Gay is Good” sign, marchg durg the 1970 Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day, New York Cy.

THUNR WAIV RUDY GAY, PER REPORT, CLEARG WAY FOR JACK WHE

In 1957, at the height of the Cold War and the rrpondg Lavenr Sre, Kameny was fired and banned om feral employment bee he was gay, along wh over 10, 000 other LGBTQ+ people the ernment who were forced om their jobs the 1950s and 60s. Unlike a lot Army brats, particularly wh a Christian upbrgg, Lawson nverted to Judaism, and 2018 beme the world’s first Black, out gay female veteran rabbi.

Yet, while Rogers was out to many the ary and among iends, and many news anizatns were aware of his orientatn, verage of his ath uniformly failed to regnize he was gay.

Pete Buttigieg, currently the Secretary of Transportatn and the first out gay bet secretary history, was servg the people of South Bend as their 32nd mayor when he was lled up by the U.