Sorry about the Fox link, but this ticks too many Languish boxes to ignore.
QuoteNew Gay Military Magazine Headed for Base Newsstands
With the official repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" less than a month away, members of the military can expect to see a new gay-themed magazine available at military exchange stores on Sept. 20, the same day the repeal goes into effect.
The gay-advocacy group OutServe launched the magazine last Spring and has already produced two editions. The group says its September edition will be available for free at select Army and Air Force bases.
According to the group's website OutServe Magazineis a publication that "highlights the contributions that actively serving LGBTs are making to the United States military, discusses and educates readers about DADT repeal policies, and advocates for the continued fight for equality for all Americans."
The new September edition will feature a photo spread of nearly 100 people who are both active duty service members and members of OutServe. It will presumably be the first time these individuals have made their sexuality known among the military ranks.
OutServe's online magazine features a self help section called "Ask Sarge," where readers are encouraged to discuss their problems with a mental health and substance abuse expert who has experience working at a Combat Stress Clinic in Afghanistan.
"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," OutServe's co-director, an active-duty officer who goes by the pseudonym JD Smith said in a written release. "And 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."
Lt. Col. Tom Shrader, a spokesman for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, did not know which bases will carry the first print editions of the magazine.
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I'm schocked that they don't think it's necessary on Navy bases.
Quote from: The Brain on September 06, 2011, 08:54:24 AM
I'm schocked that they don't think it's necessary on Navy bases.
"If you can't see the shore, it's not gay."
Quote from: The Brain on September 06, 2011, 08:54:24 AM
I'm schocked that they don't think it's necessary on Navy bases.
Quote"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,"
It's unnecessary there.
With don't ask don't tell i can see hiding being gay, bi, or a lesbian, but how do you hide being trans? or do they re-issue birth certificates and id?
Quote from: HVC on September 06, 2011, 09:05:07 AM
With don't ask don't tell i can see hiding being gay, bi, or a lesbian, but how do you hide being trans? or do they re-issue birth certificates and id?
Hey, my dad failed to notice one of his collegues going through a sex change (true story). Said collegue started wearing makeup, then dresses, then grew breasts, thhen changed his name to a her name ... all without him noticing. :D
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Quote from: Malthus on September 06, 2011, 09:08:43 AM
Quote from: HVC on September 06, 2011, 09:05:07 AM
With don't ask don't tell i can see hiding being gay, bi, or a lesbian, but how do you hide being trans? or do they re-issue birth certificates and id?
Hey, my dad failed to notice one of his collegues going through a sex change (true story). Said collegue started wearing makeup, then dresses, then grew breasts, thhen changed his name to a her name ... all without him noticing. :D
Sucha great eye for details. what did your dad do? lol
Quote from: HVC on September 06, 2011, 09:31:02 AM
Quote from: Malthus on September 06, 2011, 09:08:43 AM
Quote from: HVC on September 06, 2011, 09:05:07 AM
With don't ask don't tell i can see hiding being gay, bi, or a lesbian, but how do you hide being trans? or do they re-issue birth certificates and id?
Hey, my dad failed to notice one of his collegues going through a sex change (true story). Said collegue started wearing makeup, then dresses, then grew breasts, thhen changed his name to a her name ... all without him noticing. :D
Sucha great eye for details. what did your dad do? lol
Professor of physiology. Seriously.
Quote from: Malthus on September 06, 2011, 09:47:04 AM
Quote from: HVC on September 06, 2011, 09:31:02 AM
Quote from: Malthus on September 06, 2011, 09:08:43 AM
Quote from: HVC on September 06, 2011, 09:05:07 AM
With don't ask don't tell i can see hiding being gay, bi, or a lesbian, but how do you hide being trans? or do they re-issue birth certificates and id?
Hey, my dad failed to notice one of his collegues going through a sex change (true story). Said collegue started wearing makeup, then dresses, then grew breasts, thhen changed his name to a her name ... all without him noticing. :D
Sucha great eye for details. what did your dad do? lol
Professor of physiology. Seriously.
Hope he didn't teach anything about Sexual dimorphism :P
Quote from: Malthus on September 06, 2011, 09:47:04 AM
Professor of physiology. Seriously.
Dude...
well the jokes just write themselves really.
Quote from: Valmy on September 06, 2011, 10:07:56 AM
Quote from: Malthus on September 06, 2011, 09:47:04 AM
Professor of physiology. Seriously.
Dude...
well the jokes just write themselves really.
Heh, my dad is famous for his cluelessness. ;)
Two other incidents illustrate the point ...
When he went to Russia on a scientific goodwill mission, his hosts sent a prostitute up to his room, and he had no idea what this young lady (who spoke little English) was
for. He thought it was odd that they sent a tour guide up to his room at night, wearing "such odd clothes", and sent her away, telling her to come back during the day (she didn't).
When he went to give the introductory lecture at a major scientific conference, he went straight from cutting logs up at the cottage. He didn't want to leave his valuable chainsaw in his car, so he wore his kevlar chaps, and took his chainsaw up to his (fancy) hotel suite with him ... much to the consternation of the hotel staff & fellow conference-goers.
The key to understanding my dad is his odd upbringing. He grew up in the woods with his sister (the writer) in the 1950s, and mentally, he's never really left that space ...
Malthus, your family is awesome. :D
Quote from: Malthus on September 06, 2011, 10:23:26 AM
When he went to Russia on a scientific goodwill mission, his hosts sent a prostitute up to his room, and he had no idea what this young lady (who spoke little English) was for. He thought it was odd that they sent a tour guide up to his room at night, wearing "such odd clothes", and sent her away, telling her to come back during the day (she didn't).
See, that right there is why Russia is cooler than us :D
Quote from: Martinus on September 06, 2011, 10:32:58 AM
Malthus, your family is awesome. :D
They are ... eccentric. I'll go with eccentric. ;)
The thing with LGBT mags (and I regularly read a few, including the Advocate, Out and Attitude) is that they often fall into two camps - either soft porn or boring, drab activist zines.
The soft porn side makes them naturally more interesting, but at the same time it's hard to take the social/political message they also include seriously. It's a bit like saying you read Playboy for the social editorials.
And who buys porn mags anymore anyway?
Quote from: Valmy on September 06, 2011, 12:11:01 PM
And who buys porn mags anymore anyway?
Well the soft porn mags also have a bit about fashion, political issues and things to buy.
Quote from: Martinus on September 06, 2011, 12:09:29 PM
The thing with LGBT mags (and I regularly read a few, including the Advocate, Out and Attitude) is that they often fall into two camps - either soft porn or boring, drab activist zines.
The soft porn side makes them naturally more interesting, but at the same time it's hard to take the social/political message they also include seriously. It's a bit like saying you read Playboy for the social editorials.
Playboy would be pretty dull without the articles. Wow, I can see a vulva!
Quote from: Valmy on September 06, 2011, 12:11:01 PM
And who buys porn mags anymore anyway?
Soft core? Lots of guys. Most of the straight male "lifestyle" mags have soft core porn. Even Men's Health does.
Quote from: Malthus on September 06, 2011, 11:19:16 AM
Quote from: Martinus on September 06, 2011, 10:32:58 AM
Malthus, your family is awesome. :D
They are ... eccentric. I'll go with eccentric. ;)
I remember reading an interview about year of the flood where she mentioned that Atwood family get togethers got down to geeky science stuff very quickly due to the number of PhDs. Sounds like she was talkung about your dad.
Quote from: HVC on September 06, 2011, 10:52:07 AM
Quote from: Malthus on September 06, 2011, 10:23:26 AM
When he went to Russia on a scientific goodwill mission, his hosts sent a prostitute up to his room, and he had no idea what this young lady (who spoke little English) was for. He thought it was odd that they sent a tour guide up to his room at night, wearing "such odd clothes", and sent her away, telling her to come back during the day (she didn't).
See, that right there is why Russia is cooler than us :D
I would not recommend having sex with prostitutes in an international hotel in Russia. :hmm:
Quote from: Valmy on September 06, 2011, 12:11:01 PM
And who buys porn mags anymore anyway?
servicemen. can't exactly sneak off to a computer in the middle of the night. at least.. i assume not
@thread: :)
Quote from: Malthus on September 06, 2011, 09:08:43 AM
Quote from: HVC on September 06, 2011, 09:05:07 AM
With don't ask don't tell i can see hiding being gay, bi, or a lesbian, but how do you hide being trans? or do they re-issue birth certificates and id?
Hey, my dad failed to notice one of his collegues going through a sex change (true story). Said collegue started wearing makeup, then dresses, then grew breasts, thhen changed his name to a her name ... all without him noticing. :D
....wow.
Just imagine your dad lived in a caravan, you could subtly move it metre by metre until suddenly he`s no longer by the mountains but at the beach, and he would just accept this is the way things have always been.
Very Dark City.
Quote from: Martinus on September 06, 2011, 04:07:02 PM
Soft core? Lots of guys. Most of the straight male "lifestyle" mags have soft core porn. Even Men's Health does.
Judging by a typical cover, I'd have pegged that magazine as a gay male lifestyle magazine.
Though I disagree with your terminology. Softcore porn has nudity. Those magazines tend to stick with cheesecake/beefcake pics.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 06, 2011, 08:37:19 PM
Quote from: Martinus on September 06, 2011, 04:07:02 PM
Soft core? Lots of guys. Most of the straight male "lifestyle" mags have soft core porn. Even Men's Health does.
Judging by a typical cover, I'd have pegged that magazine as a gay male lifestyle magazine.
Though I disagree with your terminology. Softcore porn has nudity. Those magazines tend to stick with cheesecake/beefcake pics.
Ok, I guess you could call them erotica. Pictures of men/women in suggestive poses, usually partially or completely naked, but with no genitals (and in the case of women, nipples) showing.
Also, "Men's Health" is an interesting study in social mores, since I sometimes buy both the Polish and the UK version they sell here. The Polish version still has articles like "How to please her in bed" and "Tips for your relationship with the ideal woman". The UK version has dropped that pretense and just focuses on pictures of beefcakes. :P
Quote from: DGuller on September 06, 2011, 04:54:49 PM
Quote from: HVC on September 06, 2011, 10:52:07 AM
Quote from: Malthus on September 06, 2011, 10:23:26 AM
When he went to Russia on a scientific goodwill mission, his hosts sent a prostitute up to his room, and he had no idea what this young lady (who spoke little English) was for. He thought it was odd that they sent a tour guide up to his room at night, wearing "such odd clothes", and sent her away, telling her to come back during the day (she didn't).
See, that right there is why Russia is cooler than us :D
I would not recommend having sex with prostitutes in an international hotel in Russia. :hmm:
it's the option that counts :P