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Israel doesn't seem to have any problem with gays in the military. Maybe you should refine it to "highly militarised nationalist states which don't really need the military", so that they can afford to kick gays out. Any figures for whether gays were more tolerated in the U.S. military when they had conscription? I remember (from the early 80s) fellow students describing  the tricks people used in the U.S. to try to convince the army that they were gay...
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:36:32 AM EST
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Even as I wrote that the exceptions were tumbling out. Shoulda put my [Helen's weak generalisation alert] on it.

But nevertheless, the Soviet era nationalist artwork did venerate a certain uber masculinity where that message could be seriously adopted, subverted and undermined by any acceptance of gayness.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 09:21:01 AM EST
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