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Air Force Sexism

Kicked out of the Air Force in 1955 for being a lesbian, 90-year-old Helen Grace James brought a <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AF-Sexism.pdf"><strong>federal complaint</strong></a> against the secretary of the Air Force to upgrade her discharge to honorable.

FRESNO, Calif. — Kicked out of the Air Force in 1955 for being a lesbian, 90-year-old Helen Grace James brought a federal complaint against the secretary of the Air Force to upgrade her discharge to honorable.

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