From CNN: In the very early hours of this morning, "don’t ask, don’t tell" ceased to be U.S. policy. As a result, today is the first day I can write about being the partner of a gay military serviceman without fear that he will lose his job. In December, Sen. John McCain voiced his opposition [...]
We’re still bawlin. Anonymous gay soldier Are You Surprised (that’s the moniker he’s been using for his YouTube account) finally revealed himself ——–his face that is ——with a heart wrenching video in which he comes out to his dad. Stationed in Germany Are You Surprised has long maintained a popular YouTube account where he’s [...]
This story ran in the New York Times (NYT) on Sept. 5. We’re running it again because it talks in-depth about the challenging process of re-enlisting in the military if a vet was honorably discharged for being gay. It’s not that easy. And success depends on need rather than qualifications. As noted in a [...]
After President Kennedy was assassinated, “Jacqueline Kennedy knelt prayerfully with her children against the late President’s coffin. ‘Look at her,’ the federal agents heard MLK say, “sucking him off one last time.’” [16] It’s hard to fathom such meanness unless it is placed in the context of MLK’s fierce disappointment in JFK … for [...]
Rep. Virginia Foxx…what a hideous human being… On Wednesday three anti-LGBT amendments to the FY 2012 Department of Defense Appropriations bill were filed by House Republicans, says HRC’s Back Story blog. The amendments to the defense bill are as follows:
Dan Choi and other LGBT activists upset that President Obama has not come out in support of gay marriage announced that they plan to sabotage his run for a second term.
U.S. Army has launched a website that addresses the law that now lets LGB people serve opening in the military.
