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Originally Posted by Drolefille
I rather epect things to be handled in military order. There is a sexual harassment problem in the military, but primarily from straight males to women, not from gay to straight.
I don't think every gay soldier is going to out his/herself immediately, and I think the majority of them have people in their unit who know already.
Because of the publicity I expect that harassment will be handled fairly quickly and without much leeway as a whole. And as far as I'm concerned the vocal homophobe who demands separate showers can have it pointed out to him that he's been sharing a shower with a gay man this whole time and hasn't been raped yet and he can suck it up and deal with it or trot his ass out of the military altogether.
That said, I'm under the impression, per some military friends, that the number of group showers/barracks are decreasing steadily and have been for a while now.
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A lot(if not most) of sexual harassment involving homosexuals is actually from straight to gay.
For basic training and for most deployed locations group barracks/showers is the norm and only option.