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The U.S. Air Force has sent a "Pride Month" celebration memo to its entire workforce that uncritically regurgitates biased "gay" history, including a tribute to anti-Christian gay activist Harvey Milk that whitewashes Milk's predatory "marriage" to a teenage boy when he was in his thirties.
WND acquired the memo from a concerned individual who received it as a USAF employee. It was sent out "for widest dissemination" at an Air Force base in the U.S. on June 1, the first day of "Pride Month." That is what LGBT advocates and their allies call the entire month of June as they dedicate it to celebrating homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism, and other aberrant sexual and gender lifestyles -- behaviors that millions of Americans, religious and secular, consider wrong or immoral.
WND is withholding the name of the source, who could face severe retribution if it were revealed.
The Air Force-circulated memo declares, "Pride Month is a time to celebrate the contributions and rights of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) community, spanning over the entire month of June each year."
"President Bill Clinton officially declared June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month on 2 June 2000. President Barack Obama expanded the observance to National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month on 1 June 2009," the memo states.
"Pride celebrations are held in cities throughout the country celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. Celebrations range from picnics, festivals, parades, parties, workshops, and concerts."
The memo comes with the full authorization of the Department of the Air Force at a time when growing numbers of Americans are expressing outrage at the promotion of LGBT "pride" in once-trusted institutions, especially as it affects children bombarded with pro-homosexual and, now pro-transsexual, messages. Conservative boycotts against Bud Light and Target for promoting transsexuality and, in Target's case, LGBT "pride" clothing for little kids, have reached levels of success not seen in decades.
Meanwhile, American military recruitment has lagged in recent years due in large part, critics say, to military's "woke" policies, which turn off patriotic conservatives and which inevitably are most radical under Democrat administrations like Joe Biden's.
But as conservatives and everyday Americans bemoan Biden's "woke military" for devastating recruitment and making the United States a laughingstock in the eyes of aggressive foreign enemies, the Air Force memo says its version of "diversity" is just what the military needs to expand its ranks:
“Members of the LGBTQI+ community serve their country, fully contribute to the DoD mission, and deserve a welcoming environment which enables them to reach their full potential. As the largest employer in the world, DoD's reputation as a diverse and inclusive organization is essential to attracting and retaining the highly qualified talent necessary to execute our national security mission. To remain the world's preeminent military force, we need to ensure DoD provides a professional, innovative, and globally competitive work environment where all qualified Americans can serve their country."
Little-known agency now pushes LGBT propaganda
Buttressing the memo is advocacy material produced by a little-known DoD-affiliated research and press agency called the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, or DEOMI. In a classic example of bureaucratic mission creep, this organization, which was formed to help build race relations in the military, is now engaged in full-fledged LGBT advocacy, effectively serving as the press center for the military's "woke" DEI initiatives. Readers can view DEOMI's "pride" campaign information here.
Ironically, the same DEOMI that is lionizing "gay" icons like Milk without mentioning relevant facts such as his live-in, sexual "relationship" with an underage runaway boy (as documented by a sympathetic homosexual journalist, Randy Shilts) is also tasked with assisting the Pentagon in "extremism prevention" education within the Armed Forces.
Conservatives have assailed the Biden administration for promoting "progressive" narratives that paint the "extremist" label on patriotic Americans defending the Constitution.
This exclusive WND series will examine the tendentious LGBT "history" claims found in the DEOMI "Pride Month" materials, as well as other examples of its one-sided approach toward this cultural issue, for example:
