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.
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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.
Yep, because they have to go through everything you send out. No porno, no captured weapons, etc.
Same thing when you leave going through customs: they check everything!
LOL Still don’t know how I got that .50 cal bullet out. Luck I guess.
or “Latest Trends in Spring Camo”, “Your Barracks-Pink and Green”, “How To Get That Shine on Your Field Boots”, “Instant Make-overs for Tired Soldiers” “My Blankets Are Too Itchy-What to Do”?
or “Latest Trends in Spring Camo”, “Your Barracks-Pink and Green”, “How To Get That Shine on Your Field Boots”, “Instant Make-overs for Tired Soldiers” “My Blankets Are Too Itchy-What to Do”?
ping!
http://www.npc.navy.mil/CareerInfo/CMC_CCC/HotOffPress/Recognition/PresidentialCertificates.htm
This is from the Navy Personnel Command website. Good info for folks that may want to get something from a retirement they can frame and remember, vice the kenyan.
Pardon my query, but are they launching a magazine or is it really just a clip?
When I deployed the word was that any soldier who received porno in the mail was required to turn it in immediately to the first sergeant, heh, heh.
Oh, Top backed it up with random health & welfare inspections. The fear was not our moral degradation but someone selling Playboy to the local labor who were not hajjis but secular muslim Uzbeks who had the vodka to swap for it.
Anyway, this is disgusting. And yes, pro-gay sensitivity training is already in draft form for all the services.
I retired two months ago after thirty four years (break in service) beginning with Vietnam. But this latest is enough to make one weep.
IMO the publishers of this "magazine" just want to stir the pot.
I have one question. How is the military going to handle HIV?
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