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- W761898297 abstract "There were no gays in the Navy when I joined in 1947. We had queers. Oh, the officers called them homosexuals, at least to us enlisted guys. Whatever they were called, they weren’t to be trusted or tolerated, and they were discharged as soon as they were caught, simple as that. Well, sometimes their sexual proclivities were overlooked during an emergency when the Navy needed manpower, at least until the emergency was over. Then it was out the door with them “for the good of the service.” I stayed in for twenty-three years and, bit-by-bit, learned things weren’t as simple as we were told. As a callow eighteen-year-old stationed in the Pacific Northwest, one of the first bits I learned was that queers were an easy source of income. An old sea dog about nineteen or twenty told me so. “Hey, you want some extra money,” he asked? “Just go into Seattle, walk around the bar district and one of them will pick you up. When he goes down on you, hit him in the head with something hard. Then you take his money and get the hell out of there. Don’t worry about him fighting back. They’ll just lay there because they’re all yellow.” You can’t imagine how many times over the past fifty-four years I realized how lucky I was to not have had enough courage to try that. As I climbed up the promotion ladder, I shared what I’d learned with those in my charge. By the late fifties I was a chief petty officer and an instructor at the Navy’s communications training center in San Diego. My students were sailors and Marines right out of boot camp. Once during a break I overheard a couple braggadocios giving with the same old theme I’d heard back when I was a young Sailor – rolling queers. The justification was they were, “ya know,” queer." @default.
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