Gay Bombs: Don't Ask, Don't Ask

June 12, 2007

We haven’t heard the term “Gay Bomb” since our living room in 1987, as we danced passionately to Jody Watley, when our Uncle Frank observed loudly, “Who let off a gay bomb in here?”

Well Uncle Frank, turns out it was the US Armed Forces thank you very much.

CBS 5 reports that during the mid-90s the Pentagon had designs on developing a “Gay Bomb” that would raise the hormone levels of enemy combatants to such a degree they’d be more interested in gay sex than fighting.

No this article did not come from The Onion; it’s legit.

A Berkeley, CA watchdog organization uncovered the military proposal for a hormone bomb and Pentagon officials subsequently confirmed. The whole failed proposal was built on a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons based on aphrodisiacs.

Documents reflect an Air Force lab request for $7.5 million to create such a chemical weapon. The “scientific” notion was that a chemical that in low quantities might merely be pleasant in the human brain would, in large doses, prove alarmingly seductive and create gay romps in enemy foxholes.

Wow, we just wrote that. Obviously this plan never worked out but it does explain those oddball reports we heard that U.S. bomber planes had been dropping leather pants and Bruce Vilanch CDs onto the heads of Serbian troops. Real life is even better than Dr. Strangelove.