Not that there's anything wrong with that

Apparently it is national coming out day. Basically, a popular attempt to lift the stigma on homosexuality and offer those who have been afraid to tell others the truth about themselves a little bit of a morale boost. In a liberal bastion like Chicago, especially on the North Side I'm sure a lot of us can take for granted what a life changing event coming out can be. For some, it can mean being ostracized by friends and family. For others, it can even mean violence. Violence that ironically enough is often perpetrated by those too afraid to confront these same feelings within themselves and become enraged by the very suggestion there maybe a homosexual impulse anywhere in their brain.
So it is often the case those who are the most fervently and vocally anti-gay are those who just need to come out themselves. In the spirit of this I thought it might be interesting to look at two traditionally anti-gay groups that have displayed their own manifestations of suppressed homosexual urges, the Nazis and the U.S. military. Now the Nazis made it clear to everyone they were all man by imprisoning and murdering homosexuals, and the U.S. military does it by forcing homosexuals in their ranks to stay in the closet. A bit more subtle but still fundamentally anti-homosexual.
Despite all of this both parties in question have had moments that made us think "is there something you want to tell us?" The Nazis obsession with fashion and firm young males got everyone wondering whether or not they may have been a bit light in the jackboots.
Then there was the infamous propaganda piece "Triumph of the Will" which featured armies of lean, blond, shirtless young men living and working together in very close brotherhood mostly free of women.
The U.S. military showed us their own gay side decades later when the Pentagon decided to fund "Top Gun" which featured much of the same, but instead of doing public works projects they played beach volleyball. The Nazis and the U.S. military have done what all too many confused and angry closet homosexuals have done, go on long killing sprees. (think John Wayne Gacy for an example of this on the more individual level) So in the spirit of coming out day I would like to extend to the nazis...well not the nazis they're all dead at this point, but the military the opportunity the opportunity to unfurl the rainbow flag.