San Francisco – Ever since he was a little boy, Toni Johanson dreamed of being a pilot in the United States Air Force. One summer during a family vacation in the Florida Keys, Toni had vivid fantasies of standing on the deck of a U.S. Naval ship dressed in well fitted white bell bottoms as he drifted out to sea with hundreds of other physically fit, similarly dressed men. But whether his taut body was sheathed with camouflage army fatigues or stiff and rigid navy whites or blues, Toni throbbed with an insatiable desire to spend his days with the men of the U.S. Armed Forces. But that dream was shattered when he was sixteen and arrested in a motel with his tenth grade industrial arts teacher. “I knew in my heart of hearts that when Mr. Lollioff and I began our weekend trysts at the Drake motel, my dream of becoming a war hero was quickly becoming an improbability. So at the tender age of sixteen I begrudgingly discarded my Military ambitions and, with clenched teeth, decided on a career dressing windows at high-end retail stores in downtown Indianapolis.” Just how many homosexuals had their military dreams and ambitions […]