PRIDE Flags
FAMOUS VETERANS (not all are gay)
AT THE MOVIES
QUEER MILITARY HISTORY
PRESIDENTIAL POLICIES
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Transgender Flag
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Even at the height of his career, this King of Rock n Roll could not escape the draft in 1958. "Thank you very much... for your service"
elvis presley
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Released just last month, this Netflix series depicts the story of a gay recruit and his bestie as they go through Marine Corps Bootcamp.
Boots
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During this war In 1917, Article 93 was the first explicit military law prohibiting homosexuality within the Article of War of the United States.
World War I
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His former boss, Barack Obama, also claimed that his administration would change the rule that barred the VA Healthcare system from covering the costs of gender-affirming surgeries.
Joe Biden
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Intersex Flag
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More known for being the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball, he was also a 2nd LT in the still segregated US Army during WWII.
Jackie Robinson
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"(This city) Is Burning" is the documentary film of 1990 that shows the vibrance, drama, and shade of the 1980s Harlmen ball scene.
Paris
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in the 1980s, the Naval Intelligence Service invested significant resources into trying to locate a mysterious woman who seemed to have links to countless gay seamen. These gay sailors were said to be a "Friend of (blank)."
Dorothy
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In 1993, President Clinton enacted the Dept of Defense Directive 1304.26, coloquially known as this , which allowed Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual folks to be in the military as long as they kept their sexuality secretive and military members did not pursue knowledge of others sexual orientation.
Dont Ask Dont Tell
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bisexual flag
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Though not a military veteran, she was a veteran of the Stonewall riot and started the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries with friend, Marsha P Johnson.
Sylvia Rivera
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Like all US films using US military equipment, this hollywood blockbuster and its sequel depicting fighter pilots Goose and Moverick, was produced with the Dept of Defense.
Top Gun
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This color of "Less than Honorable" discharge papers were used to adimistratively seperate homosexuals from the US military during WWII.
blue
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In 2011, this President along with authorization from the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, finally repealed the 'Dont Ask Dont Tell' policy.
Barack Obama
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While better known as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu and for his service on the USS Enterprise, he was also a SSGT in the US Army in the 1950s.
George Takei
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Which was the first LGBT-themed movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Moonlight
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This veteran was featured on the cover of TIME magazine in 1975 with the headline "I am a HOMOSEXUAL.". He is quoted as saying, ""When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one".
Sergeant Leonard Matlovich
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Akin to the anti-communist Red Scare, Senator Joseph McCarthy also led this unfounded witchhunt and persecution of homosexuals in government positions and federal employment.
Lavender Scare