gay men in the Navy - I can hardly believe it !
// a few years back watching a documentary thing on TV. It was the military police in one of the services. They were trying to track down the evidence that one of the sailors was gay and the guy was hounded out of the service. //
this was the tail end of the time when it was lawful to fire someone for being gay. In America there was also the mother truckers case - the delivery driver of Tootsie Roll/ weeties was found to be a cross dresser in his spare time , and it was declared lawful to fire him for activities in his spare time.
the gay in the programme of 15 y ago was gonna be a test case in the european court but it didnt run because he had been forced to resign and had not been fired. ( other cases were selected instead )
one of his "mates" had anonymously rung p the naval police and reported seeing him in a gay pub in Devonport. HIs locker was searched without permission nor notice
eveyone agreed there was nothing wrong with his work and there had been no complaints within the service
O ! those were the Good Old Days ! how I miss them !