EPISODE · Jun 1, 2026 · 1H 21M
Episode 13: Gays In The Military - Part 1
from That's So Macaroni · host Kelsey and Sarah
They paid sailors to entrap gay men, called it “investigation”, and spent a million dollars doing it. That is not a metaphor, it is US Navy history, and it sits right in the middle of a much longer story about how queer people have always served while the rules keep changing around them.We start with the language shift that changes everything: early American law mostly targets sex acts under “sodomy” and “buggery”, but the 1800s and early 1900s bring a new framework where medicine, psychiatry, and sexology try to define “homosexuality” itself. We talk through the rise of terms like homosexual and homosexuality, the impact of researchers like Magnus Hirschfeld, and why the Nazi destruction of sex research still echoes today when information gets removed, buried, or “goes missing” from public record.Subscribe, share this with a friend who likes real history, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What part of this timeline surprised you most?Follow us on Social MediaInstagramFacebookWant Our Resources: Resource Library
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They paid sailors to entrap gay men, called it “investigation”, and spent a million dollars doing it. That is not a metaphor, it is US Navy history, and it sits right in the middle of a much longer story about how queer people have always served while the rules keep changing around them. We start with the language shift that changes everything: early American law mostly targets sex acts under “sodomy” and “buggery”, but the 1800s and early 1900s bring a new framework where medicine, psychiat...
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