# Dr. Gaylove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Bomb the Love **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725 "2007-06-12T16:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/1 "2007-06-12T16:24:44Z")
From the “Your tax dollars are _workin’ it_, honey” department: [Pentagon confirms it sought to build a “gay bomb.”](http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.html) > [@](#): > > A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting. Some jokes write themselves – _and_ have a _faaaaabulous_ body. “You know, I know he’s technically the enemy and everything, but _look_ at that ass. Just look at it! My God, I could bounce quarters off that ass all night. Mmmm-MMM.” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/2 "2007-06-12T17:12:14Z")
Was the gay research abandoned or was it researched with gay abandon? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/3 "2007-06-12T17:13:47Z")
I was really disappointed in the military on this. Thinking that if they wanted to build a Gay bomb, they’d at least have some inkling of the chemical needed to turn folks gay, I tracked down the Air force document at the [Sunshine Project](http://www.sunshine-project.org/). It contained nothing on possible chemical pathways to gayness. My nascent plans for a gayifying squirt-gun campaign have come to naught. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/4 "2007-06-12T17:19:39Z")
Remember the Get-Smart TV movie **The Nude Bomb**? I kept thinking of that when I read this story. So now, when your squad mates yell, “Incoming!” you really do have to cover your ass. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/5 "2007-06-12T17:27:13Z")
This is an outrage! Thinking they can turn people gay with some sort of chemical bomb…this is an affront! It is awful! and most importantly, where do I get one?? ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/6 "2007-06-12T17:29:54Z")
You know, as funny as this is, the concept is actually deeply disturbing. If such a thing managed to be created I imagine one of the first things to happen would be for the chemical mix to end up getting sold as a street drug. Chaos would erupt in the streets! Sorority houses across the country would be turned into frenzied lesbian orgies! And imagine the excuses! “No, honey, I’m not gay. Bob just slipped me the _Gay Bomb_.” ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/7 "2007-06-12T17:37:05Z")
[QUOTE=CaerieD] Sorority houses across the country would be turned into frenzied lesbian orgies! [/QUOTE] From what I’ve read, they already are. Or are you telling me those letters written in to that magazine are all just made up? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/8 "2007-06-12T17:42:57Z")
**Gorsnak** , do you remember Santa? Something wonderful and magical and almost too good to be true? Well, it’s kind of like that… ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/9 "2007-06-12T17:45:36Z")
Heh…The Kids In The Hall have already done gay warfare. Brain Candy anyone? > [@](#): > > Wally!, You go over there and Fuck 'em. We’ll stay here and Masturbate. Go, go, go! But seriously, did no one see how this could totally backfire and end up with a bunch of ass-raped American GIs? And more KITH: “I’m gay! I’m gay! I think the drug made me that way!” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/10 "2007-06-12T18:32:57Z")
This could give “friendly fire” an entirely new significance. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/11 "2007-06-12T18:43:24Z")
One of the new gay bombs went off prematurely at a training site today. Casualties were horrific. The army emergency airlifted crates of lube and tight shorts into the area, but they may have been too late. We will not be providing footage. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/12 "2007-06-12T19:28:09Z")
See, this weapon is only effective if the target population considers gayness to be a problem. We in Canada have neutralised its effectiveness by declaring gays equal, legalising gay marriage and thus making gayness an unremarkable part of life. If the weapon was used here… nothing much would change. _We are invincible!!!_ Next up: neutralising the polygamy bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/13 "2007-06-12T19:49:15Z")
“General, should we drop the Overbearing Mother of all Bombs?” “Gentlemen of the press. Concerning dropping the Gay Bomb, you can’t ask and we can’t tell.” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/14 "2007-06-12T19:52:29Z")
[QUOTE=CaerieD] “No, honey, I’m not gay. Bob just slipped me the _Gay Bomb_.” [/QUOTE] Thomebody thet uth up the bomb. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/15 "2007-06-12T19:57:47Z")
On a slightly more serious note, if such a chemical were isolated, I would worry about the discovery of a chemical with the reverse effect: i.e. straight gas. I can imagine gays being forcibly gassed, if not by the government (that seems a bit far-fetched), by fundie parents. Hell, I think some of these self-loathing Fred Phelps/Ted Haggard types would probably use it on _themselves_, if they could obtain it discreetly. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/16 "2007-06-12T20:23:01Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] On a slightly more serious note, if such a chemical were isolated, I would worry about the discovery of a chemical with the reverse effect: i.e. straight gas. I can imagine gays being forcibly gassed, if not by the government (that seems a bit far-fetched), by fundie parents. Hell, I think some of these self-loathing Fred Phelps/Ted Haggard types would probably use it on _themselves_, if they could obtain it discreetly. [/QUOTE] It would throw a wrench in the whole gays are made vs gays are born, if you could “make” a gay person from a straight one. 1994 huh.. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/17 "2007-06-12T20:26:06Z")
I keep picturing an explosion, and everyone gets up and walks away dazed, wearing pink sparkly camoflauge… ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/18 "2007-06-12T20:31:48Z")
Where’s Mr. Slave when you need him? We need an unbiased opinion! ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/19 "2007-06-12T20:37:36Z")
When asked for his opinion on the gay bomb, Mr Slave had this to say…“Jezzus chrisht.” He offered no further clarification. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725/20 "2007-06-13T04:05:23Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] I keep picturing an explosion, and everyone gets up and walks away dazed, wearing pink sparkly camoflauge… [/QUOTE] I laughed so hard I have tears, and everyone in the computer lab is staring at me. Thanks. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-gaylove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-bomb-the-love/407725.md?page=2)