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Jan 31, 2007 Quickie Link: QUESTIONING MILITARY MACHISMO - AGAINST QUEER CONFORMISM -- By Peter Tatchell
By vanrozenheim

Most homosexuals who join the military are characterised by a strong mental and emotional identification with straight culture. They personify a particular type of assimilationist gay person. To serve in the armed forces involves conforming to the rules of a quintessentially straight institution. Demanding more than mere integration, it requires collusion with a military system that actively discriminates against queers. To be complicit with this institution necessitates a hetero mind-set. That is why the majority of lesbian and gay soldiers are invariably straight-thinking, and straight-acting. Infatuated with all things heterosexual, they often want to be straight, or at least to pass for straight. These 'hetero homos' aspire to be like straight people and to be liked by them.



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Note by the editor: This is an older article, but it is still up-to-date.



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