Posted on 03/28/2011 9:14:42 AM PDT by mandaladon
Washington (CNN) -- A magazine designed for and by gay military members may soon be displayed at military installations worldwide, an advocacy group announced Monday.
"Our first objective with the magazine is to let all the gay, lesbian, bi, and trans members currently serving know that they are not alone," an active-duty officer who goes by the pseudonym JD Smith said in a statement.
Smith, along with co-director Ty Walrod lead the organization known as OutServe, the group describes themselves as an underground network of actively serving military members of the United States Armed Services who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
"Visibility is key," Smith said, who added that OutServe hopes to have its next version available in print at "some larger military bases."
The magazine can currently be downloaded from the internet, the statement said.
"We are not about highlighting our differences." Smith said the goal of the publication is to demonstrate "how LGBT troops are proud soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coasties, and Marines just like everyone else."
The magazine will contain features about "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal implementation and OutServe chapters, as well as other information of interest to currently-serving LGBT military members, the statement said.
"We also want to communicate to all troops that there are capable gay military members serving honorably, and that accepting that and moving on will make our military stronger," said Smith.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
I imagine the Russians and Chicoms are smiling over their vodka about now.
Here we go. The first of many hundreds of cuts to the body of the US Armed Forces.
I think they should call it REAR ACTION.
“We are not about highlighting our differences.” Smith said the goal of the publication is to demonstrate “how LGBT troops are proud soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coasties, and Marines just like everyone else.”
If that is true you wouldn’t even mention your sexual deviancy in the first place. Time for the heterosexuals to create a magazine that will flaunt military heteros with families that have children which the deviant ones can’t create! The Left will go berserk and have it banned.
My retirement ceremony after 24 years is next Friday!!!! Yeah. Won’t even get one issue. What a shame. /sarc.
Beetle Bailey Goes Gaily?
The Andrews sisters are gonna have to come back and sing “The Boogie Woogie Turd Burglar Boy of Company B”
What will they name it? “Blow”?
This in-your-face stuff is all part of the spirit of gay.
But seriously everybody in a platoon is there to make war, not love.
There’s no denying it... this magazine is all about militant gays.
Thanks for your service to America. And I hope your retirement becomes both lucrative and fulfilling.
“Trans members”? Even under the repeal I don’t think there are any.
Clearly this magazine is not aimed at individual consumptions.
How soon would each unit be forced to do the only possible pc thing to subscribe / display such magazine, on taxpayers’ dimes (no less)?
Having a disorder, which is what homosexuality is, is not something to be proud of. However liberals care more about self-gratification rather than morality and setting a good example for our future generations.
What an intriguing magazine idea /huge sarc
Wonder who’s putting up the front money - advertisers?
What’s the LBGT-gobbledygook percentage of people that are going to buy this thing? 3% tops?
THe Navy edition could be called UP PERISCOPE.
“We are not about highlighting our differences.” Smith said the goal of the publication is to demonstrate “how LGBT troops are proud soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coasties, and Marines just like everyone else.”
Bravo Sierra.
Colonel, USAFR
Thanks for your service, naps.
Colonel, USAFR
Smith said the goal of the publication is to demonstrate “how LGBT troops are proud soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coasties, and Marines just like everyone else.”
Coasties, for the most part!!
Thanks for your service!
If I was in the service, I would want to subscribe just so I would know who to stay away from.
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Promoting self-destructive behavior is the Left’s forte!
Oh Brother! I can see the first gay-themed war movie:....”Reach-Around Ridge”.
#19.Break down culture standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and T.V.
#20. Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity, as "normal, natural, healthy."
This isn't about "equality", it's about proliferation and indoctrination, IMHO.
So the military is planning on dropping their anti skin magazines position. But this will give a heads up on who needs to do recon.
How very special.
“Reacharound Magazine. On newsstands now.”
I was thinking along the same lines. I was going for:
Marching in the Rear
:)
Marines ‘Semper Fey’
Air Force ‘f-light in the loafers’
Why a pseudonym? Doing something your troops wouldn't respect? You half-hearted coward.
I just retired last year, and can remember when the Stars and Stripes store stopped selling girly magazines in Japan. (1980’s?)
How is this any different than the stores “promoting deviant behavior”?
Man am I ever glad I am gone before we have to have sensitivity classes conducted for gay service members, gay magazines, and probably gay clubs on base supported by MWR.
“Trans members”? Even under the repeal I don’t think there are any.
But I’m sure there soon will be!
Just don't tell me that this is anyhow funded by taxpayers.
You needn’t show me the fold out.
My father passed away last year before this abomination came into force.
As a hardcore patriot and Navy veteran he would have been appalled.
He was tolerant when it came to homosexuals - but he knew open homosexuality in the military and women on ships were a recipe for disaster.
By the way, upon a veteran’s death the family receives a certificate signed by the President.
His death was tough for the family but we all had a good laugh - knowing the old man was somewhere cussing because the Kenyan signed it.
His name is Ty Walrod?
Wow.
There should be room for Neal and Bob. Air Force ‘f-light in the loafers’. I was just getting use to “Chair Force”
When I was in Iraq as a navy hospital corpsman, in a marine infantry battation, a friend of mine sent me a Christmas present that included porno magazines. When I wanted to send a box to myself, a mail clerk told me that, because of Iraqi porno laws, Americans aren’t allowed to mail adult material. I said, “Why can someone send those magazines into Iraq, but I can’t mail them out of Iraq?” He said, “I don’t know. Someone else made the rules, and they didn’t tell me why.”
Do you know many veterans who support allowing gays, in the military? I was in the navy for 21 years, including six months near Baghdad. I was in marine units for eight years. I think that about 75% of sailors and marines, I know, oppose allowing gays in the military.
I declined my signed certificate when I retired. (The command you retire from has to request it.)
Wish I could have gotten one signed by Ronald Reagan. Obviously too late.
There are websites where you can get one signed by any living President, as long as you served honorably and during their terms.
You aren’t allowed porn in theater at all. The clerk was wrong about it being Iraq specific.
That’s an ancient rule too. Good order and discipline, etc, etc.
I would say it's generational. I'm retired. Everyone that I know who's a contemporary of mine (and has voiced an opinion either way), didn't support the repeal. I think as you descend into the lower ranks, the service members are generally either more supportive or perhaps ambivalent or even indifferent about the repeal.
My personal estimation is that if the repeal has any effect at all on recruitment, it will be negligible at best. That is a wholly separate question about whether or not it will have any negative effects on good order and discipline. I think that it will.
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