Throwing gay sailors overboard?

[Dean Moore]

Spending hundreds, if not thousands of dollars of someone else's money to
post this to the net, in article <1994Oct12.1...@ucl.ac.uk>
ucf...@ucl.ac.uk (Alberto Mattiussi) writes:

>That reminds me another well spread legend:
>Most of the sailors are gay or have gay behaviour
>on the ship.
>Comments?

You know how men (most of the crew of the average Navy ship) often wind up
in prison...

Still, sounds like a legend to me. You *have* heard the story of the "crossing
the equator" ceremony in the Navy, I presume. Maybe someone more knowledgeable
that I will post it, it made Newsweek during the big gays-in-the-military
fiasco.

My .sig has lost it sheep and cannot find them.

Dean

[Andy Meadow]

There's a great book called "Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition" which talks about
the all-male sailing culture of the Caribbean 1700 - 1800's.