I joined the Air Force as an officer in 1979. I was surprised by the backward thinking. I remember being asked if I was homosexual at the recruiting office in Los Angeles. I happen to be heterosexual, but the question was asked as if homosexuality were a mental disorder. I worked at Cape Canaveral, Florida. I remember a civil service engineer saying he didn't want the Equal Rights Amendment to pass because he didn't want "queers" teaching his children. He couldn't get away with a comment like that in a private company.