British secrets revealed
A new British TV series revealing secret history of the last 50 years includes information about chemical weapons and spy schools. But let's skip to the good part. In 1969, the Royal Navy did a little survey in which it found that half of naval servicemen had had sexual contact with other men. Also revealed were secret criteria for uncovering lesbians in the military: Security officers would go through the gals' record collections. Anyone found with more than one Joan Armatrading album was deemed to be of a Sapphic persuasion. "The Labour government of the day under Harold Wilson spent hours fretting about such matters," says the series' executive producer.
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