the gay bomb all right pause the video take a few moments and decide for yourself exactly what you think this could possibly be and then share your comments below the correct answer is that the gay bomb was a proposed chemical weapon that would turn the enemy gay and induce a homosexual Extasy that would disable their interest in any warfaring Endeavor whatsoever and no we're not making this [Music] up the so-call gay bomb was first proposed by the US Air Force right laboratory in Dayton Ohio in 1994 this was at a time when the laboratory was
tasked with identifying non-lethal weapons to fit the US military's objectives the gay bomb was described as a form of non-lethal offensive Weaponry uh which would make enemy combatants sexually irresistible to one another despite its insane description documents released to a biological weapons Watchdog in Austin Texas confirmed that the US military did investigate the idea after its initial proposal in 1994 it was included in a CD ROM produced by the US military in 2000 and submitted to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002 the plan for the project was Unearthed through a freedom of information request
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the gay bomb was proposed not as a bomb per se but as an aerosol something akin to pepper spray which would relas a powerful aphrodesiac upon the target how exactly this is going to work and what the consequences of being sprayed with the gay bomb wooden tail for the victim are really open to interpretation and to really understand the thought process behind the concept one has to understand the less than enlightened military thinking at the time you see the 1990s was a period when when discussions around the role of homosexual people in the military uh
was at the center of discourse the year before the proposal in 1993 then US President Bill Clinton introduced Department of Defense directive 13426 commonly known as don't ask don't tell the directive declared it impermissible to discriminate against or harass closeted homosexuals or to prevent them from joining the military but that openly gay individuals remained barred from military service the thing behind the directive held that homosexuality in the military would create a quote unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale good order and discipline and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability the general
consensus among top military brass was that homosexuals made for a far less effective soldier that a gay man or woman couldn't possibly keep their attention fixed on the berky business of warfare and would be a security risk ideally kept as far away from active Service as possible it followed a ban on openly gay members of the military that was in place since 1982 although engagement in homosexual activity had been grounds for dismissal from the American Military since the Revolutionary War and in the 1940s homosexuality was classified as mental illness automatically ensuring gay men and lesbian
women would not be called up for service if the thought process continued gay people made for such useless soldiers that they would not effectively serve the US military then it would make perfect sense that they'd be ineffective also as opponents of the US military so with this dubious Maxim in do the mines at the right laboratory put two and two together and somehow got five putting forward their proposal for the gay bomb to the Pentagon the strategy was quite simple the military would conduct a flyover of an enemy camp and release a cloud of gas
over the Target that would quote cause enemy soldiers to become gay and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistibly attractive to one another but other details about the gab bom were not entirely clear what would be the chemical agent used who exactly would it be used against how long would the effects last and could they be reversed and what would become of the incapacitated targets once they were lost to their homosexual delirium perhaps unsurprisingly the gay bomb was not rolled out despite the pentagon's confirmation that it was put forward as
a genuine [Music] proposal the several problems with the Gable as mentioned previously it would almost certainly have been characterized as a chemical weapon the fact of it being a hilarious chemical weapon unfortunately wouldn't really change that classification and chemical weapons are straight up well not allowed but there are several other questions you might ask if an offensive Force had the reconnaissance and aerial power to douse the enemy with aerosols why not just make life easier and wipe them out with Conventional Weapons incredibly that would even probably be considered more legally permissible under International humanitarian law
somehow chemical weapons are strictly prohibited under the terms of the Geneva Convention something which would as mentioned likely be extended to the use of incapacitating aerosol The us-based Arms Control Association describes a chemical weapon as quote any toxic chemical that could cause death injury incapacitation and sensory irritation deployed via a delivery system such as an artillery shell rocket or ballistic missile aerial bombing however is permitted in Warfare as long as it complies with military necessity distinction and proportionality so it may even have been that to spray the military objective with the gay bomb could have
been legally reprehensible but to obliterate them with an old-fashioned bomb strike would not be I mean go figure so the use of the gay bomb would likely not have been accepted by any International Tribunal for conflicts rendering the whole thing a bit pointless the pseudo science behind the plan was also blind to the exploits of the few known gay Personnel serving in the US military men like technical Sergeant Leonard matlovich recipients of both the Bronze Star for heroism and the purple half of being wounded in action as well as an Air Force Commendation all relating
to his distinguished service in the Vietnam War in proposing the gay bomb the r R seem to have overlooked the possibility that this could result in soldiers like mat Lovich to fight against it something which clearly would not have been in its best interests but the biggest problem with the gay bomb is that it obviously wouldn't have worked Aaron Belin director of the University of California's Michael Palm Center which studies the issue of gay people in the military said the idea that you could submit someone to some aerosol spray and change their sexual behavior is
ludicrous there has never been a chemical product proved to have the capacity to change the sexual orientation of a person nor has any conversion therapy proved able to do so either despite this practice continuing to exist in some [Music] places although the gay bomb never actually came into being it nonetheless gained recognition at Harvard University in 2007 that year the bomb became a laurate of the IGN noal Peace Prize the award a tongue-in-cheek answer to the annual Nobel Peace Prize is issued for quote science the first makes you laugh then makes you think and was
issued by six winners of the actual Nobel at Harvard regrettably The Architects of the gay bomb did not plan to attend to claim recognition for their work it was also noted by the National Library of Medicine that the Pentagon did not respond to inquiries about the future status of his initiative following the successful awarding of the IGN noal prize an initiative which was once referred to in the media as the Make Love Not War plan other winners on on the nights were the pharmaceutical drug viagro which was recognized for its groundbreaking ability to remedy jet
lag in hamsters as well as Dan Mah the subject of a British medical journal paper focusing on his ability to swallow the blade of a 60 cm long [Music] sword due to its fail development the project never became part of the arsenal of weapons of the US military it did however become part of the Arsenal of some American conspiracy theorists For Whom the potential of induced homosexuality ow certainly no laughing matter us radio host Alex Jones turned his sight on the supposed phenomenon in an Infamous rant in 2010 often referred to as the the turning
the freaking frogs gay rant although Jones didn't directly mention the gay bomb he drew a link between what he described as the sudden rise in the number of gay people and secretive government chemicals going on to fortify his point by claiming that the majority of frogs in some parts of the United States were now gay Jones's trade was not really sophisticated enough to be directly linked back to the gay bomb alone and he may have also been influenced by some reports from the 2000s that the weed killer atrazine was determined to have a feminizing effect
on some male frogs however studies on the effects caused by atrazine were inconclusive and the US Environmental Protection Agency later stated in 2013 that no consistent such efforts on amphibians caused by the chemical could be observed despite this the atrazine conspiracy theory was revived by presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy in [Music] 2023 despite the ludicrousness of the G and despite its only lasting Legacy being that of being ruthlessly clowned at the ignoble Awards in 2007 The Proposal did Bear an indication of something more Insidious an ignoble chapter of United States military history in his own
right it was the Deep rooted paranoia which resulted in ideas like the gay bomb which also saw technical Sergeant matlovich booted out of the Army in 1975 it was the same thinking which ensured that the don't ass don't tell policy remained in place for almost 20 years retaining homosexuality his grounds for dismissal from the military right up until 2011 by that time around 14,000 soldiers had been dismissed under the policy the rights of the same-sex spouses of military personnel to Federal benefits was only secured by a Supreme Court ruling in 2015 and it was only
in 2016 that the secretary of the army Eric Fanning became the first openly gay head of service of any Department of the American Military a full 20 years after the gay bomb proposal and no less than 50 after mat lich's landmark discrimination suit against the US Air Force it is possible that many Stellar soldiers were discouraged from serving in the military during that time and that many other active servicemen and women were secretly passed over for career advancement on the basis of their sexual orientation and discrimination against homosexual soldiers unfortunately remains common a landmarked study
by the international Society for traumatic stress studies on a sample of 227 lesbian gay or bisexual identifying military personnel in the US military in 2020 produced some pretty damning results the determined that the sample reported quote an elevated risk of sexual harassment stalking and sexual assault during military service versus a control group of 276 non-lgbt identifying Personnel the study concluded that the test group also displayed higher levels of both postraumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms and that the rates of reporting of incidents of sexual assault were low another study by the US military health system
in 2022 further found that suicide attempts among gay lesbian or bisexual service personnel were as much as 2.3 times higher than among heterosexual Personnel the legacy of exclusion of soldiers on the grounds of sexual orientation continues to remain legally fraud and lawsuits relating to the historic dismissals of individuals from the military due to their sexual orientation continue to this day [Music] [Applause] [Music]
