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<text id=93TT2508>
<title>
Feb. 15, 1993: A Few Bad Men
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 19
SOCIETY
A Few Bad Men
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<p>Gay bashing in the South. Murder in Japan. The accused: uniformed
soldiers.
</p>
<p> "They were kicking him and punching him, making comments like
`Fag, you should die! Tell Bill Clinton about this!' " So
reported an observer of the alleged bashing by three young
Marines based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, of gay male Crae
Pridgen, the latest victim of antihomosexual violence in the
wake of the Clinton Administration's endorsement of gay
membership in the military.
</p>
<p> In San Francisco four sailors and two Marines were
sentenced to a year in jail after they pleaded guilty to beating
a homosexual man lured from a bar, and seaman Terry Helvey was
charged by the Navy in the bludgeoning murder of gay shipmate
Allen Schindler near the U.S. naval base at Sasebo, Japan. Thus,
even as opponents of Clinton's easing of restrictions against
gay military personnel raised the specter of unrestrained
homosexuals running rampant through their ranks, more tangible
threats to military discipline were coming from the straight and
narrow-minded already in uniform.
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