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| Navy's new message: your country needs you, especially if you are gay |
| 2005-08-27 |
| It is a liaison that would once have turned many military top brass purple with rage. Five years after the ban on homosexuality in the armed forces was lifted, the Royal Navy is entering into a partnership with Stonewall and actively seeking gay recruits by advertising in the pink press. Subject to smutty innuendo ever since Churchill supposedly dismissed Britain's naval tradition as "nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash", the navy will today cast off centuries of repression and inhibition by seeking Stonewall's advice on the recruitment and retention of gay and lesbian sailors. In a transformation likened by activists to turning round a supertanker, the navy will pay the pressure group for advice on curbing prejudice and ensuring gay personnel have equal rights to housing, benefits and pensions. The partnership with Stonewall "will help the lesbians and gays within the Royal Navy be more comfortable and honest about their sexuality if they wish to", said the spokesman. "But no one has to reveal their sexual orientation in the armed services. It's an entirely private matter." |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #7 What did one Gay Royal Navy sperm say to the other Gay Royal Navy sperm? Where are we going to find an egg in all this shit? [recloaking...] |
| Posted by: Goosy Lucy 2005-08-27 20:14 |
| #6 The Royal Navy - this years sponsor of "The Village People" reunion tour Reminds me of a story from my own USN active duty time in the 1970's. We were at quarters one morning, and we noticed some unusual activity on the forecastle of the USS Hepburn a couple of piers over (32nd Street, San Diego) - looked like guys in some sort of costume, with other guys wrangling lights and camera equipment. I noticed someone wearing an Indian feather headdress, and another guy in a construction worker's hard hat, and said to nobody in particular, "if I didn't know better, I'd swear that was the Village People on the Hepburn's forecastle!". We later heard that indeed they WERE the Village People, filming a USN recruiting commercial. Of course, the commercial never aired...apparently someone at CRUITCOM with some pop-culture savvy clued in the brass as to the VP's |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2005-08-27 19:37 |
| #5 Maybe "nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash" *should* be their new recruiting slogan. |
| Posted by: Eric 2005-08-27 16:25 |
| #4 new Brit O-Club hit line: Mind if I push in your stool? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-08-27 15:58 |
| #3 Are they that hard up for recruits? |
| Posted by: Snese Uninesh2330 2005-08-27 15:55 |
| #2 One wonders if they will find enough seaman |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-08-27 15:25 |
| #1 The Royal Navy - this years sponsor of "The Village People" reunion tour. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-08-27 14:29 |