>My original point was that the world has changed significantly in this area. Back when you served, the military attempted to screen out gay men. Around the same time, Alan Turing, one of the fathers of Computer Science, was prosecuted for being gay and accepted chemical castration to avoid jail.
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Let's also point out that Turing was prosecuted in the U.K. I only raise this because other history citations in this thread have referred specifically to the U.S..