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70sEraVet

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2. Thanks for the interesting story.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Aug 22, 2021, 07:54 PM

Aug 2021

My hat's off to anyone who tried to stand up to the military homophobes in that era. I know that anyone who was perceived to be gay went through hell on a Navy ship in the 70's.

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