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admiring the stockings. 1940’s.
#[40S COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCER VOICE] WHAT’S BETTER THAN THIS? GALS BEING PALS
Fun fact: Though being gay in the 40s sucked, being gay in the military was easier, and pretty common. There were apparently, at one point in time time so many lesbians in the military that when they tried to crack down on it, the girls wrote back and said “Look I can give you the names, but you’ll lose some of your best officers, and half your nurses and secretaries.” And they pretty much shut up about it unless you were especially bad at subtlety. (Source: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. A good source for gay history from 1900s onwards.)
wait but also lesbians in the WAC were so common and often had hierarchies of popular lesbians; more traditionally butch women were considered super hot and often formed cliques where they’d wear men’s suits and cut their hair to look like sideburns and smoke cigars in the mess (there was also a lot of terrible profiling done to butch women during gay/lesbian witch hunts later in the military but at least this part is fun) 
also when they finally tried to crack down on lesbian relationships in the WAC it proved to be incredibly difficult because of male officers’ inability to distinguish friendly female behavior from like.. couples’ PDAs (“gal pals????” they all thought. “lesbians????” they couldn’t tell. “these women are all holding hands with each other and kissing each others’ cheeks what is going on,” they thought. “men don’t do this?”) and this wasn’t at all helped by the fact that the women would often intentionally mess with the people questioning them; they’d pull the gal pal card and they’d pull it hard. “do you two sleep in the same bed?” “well of course, we’re best friends!” 
and when the military tried to profile more butch-presenting women, who often (but not exclusively!) filled more industrial jobs such as mechanics and technicians etc. they found that they were losing some of their best people who were replacing “”“male”“” homefront and reserve jobs and therefore couldn’t discharge them 
another great book to read is Coming Out Under Fire by Allan Berube; it specifically addresses lesbian and gay climates in WWII, with a heavy focus on the WAC and on drag culture in the men’s army/navy
transientterritory, it got better. ^_^
@faun-songs, BB Ladies?

bb ladies!

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Watching you guys is like watching a romcom from the 90s just with more angst. 

How about you stop watching then? 

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zmejgorynych

Look at that, Rogers is back with his side bitch so soon. 

We would have pegged you for a guy who flies straight. 

you might be bitter that youre old news since the zemo incident but if you really want me to i can always test your security systems for you.

Maybe you should test your own security systems. 

Seems you had a bit of an unwanted audience. 

i dont know if youre aware but right now, the avengers are a government task force and romanoff is officially still on the team, so there has been no unauthorized personnel on the premises.

No unauthorized personnel on the premisis, except that one enemy of the state. 

Again. Not homophobic. Just calling out Rogers for cheating, Shame on you Captain. 

there is no proof of any enemy of the state having been here, as im sure agent may and romanoff will agree.

and: hilarious.

What enemy of the state? Trump? 

Impressive by the way. I didn’t think you would manage to get a president from your midst elected.

Okay so that guy, not one of ours. 

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Watching you guys is like watching a romcom from the 90s just with more angst. 

How about you stop watching then? 

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zmejgorynych

Look at that, Rogers is back with his side bitch so soon. 

We would have pegged you for a guy who flies straight. 

you might be bitter that youre old news since the zemo incident but if you really want me to i can always test your security systems for you.

Maybe you should test your own security systems. 

Seems you had a bit of an unwanted audience. 

i dont know if youre aware but right now, the avengers are a government task force and romanoff is officially still on the team, so there has been no unauthorized personnel on the premises.

No unauthorized personnel on the premisis, except that one enemy of the state. 

Again. Not homophobic. Just calling out Rogers for cheating, Shame on you Captain. 

there is no proof of any enemy of the state having been here, as im sure agent may and romanoff will agree.

and: hilarious.

What enemy of the state? Trump? 

Impressive by the way. I didn’t think you would manage to get a president from your midst elected.

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Watching you guys is like watching a romcom from the 90s just with more angst. 

How about you stop watching then? 

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zmejgorynych

Look at that, Rogers is back with his side bitch so soon. 

We would have pegged you for a guy who flies straight. 

are you trying to insult me by calling me gay? it’s 2017, get a grip. 

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