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“I did it for the uplift of humanity and the Navy”: FDR's Queer Sex-Entrapment Sting
Sherry Zane sheds light on a dusky covert operation that targeted homosexual Navy men.
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On March 16, 1919, 14 Navy recruits met secretly at the naval hospital in Newport, Rhode Island, anxiously awaiting instructions for their brand-new assignment. The senior operatives explained that the volunteers were free to quit if they objected to this special mission: a covert operation to entrap homosexual men under the authority of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI).
By the end of the sting, investigators had apprehended more than 20 accused sailors and imprisoned them aboard a broken-down ship in Newport harbor. Anxious and afraid, the suspects remained in solitary confinement for nearly four months before they were officially charged with sodomy and “scandalous conduct.” The incident also foreshadowed laws and policies that the future President Roosevelt would put in place.
In this episode of the MIT Press podcast, podcaster Chris Gondek talks to Sher
HMS Gay Archer is completely historically incorrect
Hi guys, today Gaijin anounced HMS Gay Archer for the upcoming battle transmit, and as the one who suggested a limited members of the class, i was somewhat let down to see that the ship model was completely ahistorical to how HMS Gay Archer was configured and appeared during actual service. Below serves as a brief summery of what is wrong with the ship as show and what needs to be rectified to produce the model historically exact plus additional historical photos to cement my information.
Above is a screenshot of the ship as it currently appears in the devblog and circled are parts that are historically inaccurate and based of the civilian rebuild of the vessel by a private collector. Whom ever modelled the ship used photographs of this restore to model the ship but unfortunately, this referb was done on a budget and is very much different to how the ship actually appeared and was armed in service.
below are the main points I immediately became aware of with the ship:
- the radar and ship antenna are not show and instead are current or mock up that do not resemble how the ship was in service
- the entire bac
Pride Month 2023 - Exploring LGBTQ+ history in the Royal Navy
The Queer and Now
For three hundred and ten years the Royal Navy hunted down, persecuted and sometimes even hanged homosexuals found within their ranks. Execution ceased after 1861, but life imprisonment remained a reality. The partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967 did small to sway the view of the Armed Forces, and it was not until 2000 that true change was made.
The Royal Navy were not alone in their persecution of homosexuals, or indeed anybody else from within the LGBTQ+ community, but for some there is still the image that they promote an aggressive, macho, alpha-male stereotype.
However, over the past twenty-three years, the Royal Navy has turn into a beacon of progress and acceptance. In a statement on their website in January 2020, the Royal Navy wanted to send a clear message: “the Naval Service welcomes all talent to its ranks, regardless of your sexual orientation or gender identity” – a far cry from the “gay panic” that gripped Naval officials just forty years previous.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the exclude on homosexuals serving in the forces being lifted in 2020, naval bases an
Gay Archer at 2.3?
There are far more terrifying things then a Tacoma class Frigate plus it has a DD spawn while stuck at 20kts.
To combat a Copuiam as FlippedStug jokingly notify it one time in an enlisted stream, Is to either attack from direct front or rear for those 3" guns can’t fire due to some blasted bloody security bars (the aft 3" can fire forwards but only if the ship is angled slightly) these guns also cannot hould break so it’s death by a thousand cuts, the 40 mm bofors mounts can aim afterwards as well but hold some dodgy arcs to do so but cannot aim forwards the only forward defence is the two bridgewing 20 mm oerlikons which ain’t wonderful imo since it’s a mixed belt or a hedgehog naval mortar that’s set to 600 metres.
The thing is dangerous side on but is straightforward to combat & I’ve founder many a times to MTB’s with it especially with torpedoes I can’t dodge due to my slow speed & poor turning ability or come under artillery ambush which will wipe out a crap load of crew.
TBH I’d be more worried about small craft spawning Subchaser, Corvettes, Naval Trawlers, Minesweepers, Aviation recovery vessels Drache, hydrofoils then a fat & tardy frigate w
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