Yeah, that's the thing. I see often see the racial integration of the US military as something that, while of course isn't perfect, largely can be said to have worked pretty well. And it was progressive for the time. And of course there was a lot of white-supremacist grumbling, but so fucking what? Who cared what those people thought? That's how homophobes need their "concerns" handled, IMO--with all the respect they deserve, which is none.

People in the armed forces are supposed to be brave. Don't all the ideals of courage in tough situations fall apart if grown men curl up into little whiny fetal balls of terror at the very idea of the possibility of some dude checking them out? I suspect there's a lot of projection and fear of other men treating such guys the same way they treat women.