Earlier this month Stars & Stripes published what read like a celebratory story about homosexual servicemembers at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa performing – in drag – at a fundraiser to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender troops. It was accompanied by photographs of the participants, some dressed in red body suits with devil-like horns on their heads prancing around in what used to be a testosterone-infused haven of masculinity – the Noncommissioned Officers (NCO) Club.