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Posts tagged: DADT

DOJ And Log Cabin Face Off Over DADT Repeal Implementation

Last Wednesday according to the SCOTUS blog, the Department Of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion with the 9th Circuit Court requesting that the court put on hold its review of the constitutionality of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.  The DOJ asked for 90 days of inactivity on the case because the Pentagon needs time to enact [...]

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GOProud Chairman Christopher Barron Clowned On MSNBC

Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filled in for Ed Schultz on MSNBC on Thursday.  He had Christopher Barron, chairman of gay conservative Republican group GOProud on the show about Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America boycotting CPAC because of GOProud is gonna be there—they hate teh gays. We posted earlier this [...]

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The RENWL ‘What White Gay Folks Don’t Like To Hear’ 2010 Award

This year we didn’t see too many challengers vying for the coveted RENWL What Gay White Folks Don’t Like To Hear Commentators award, at least not that many who were courageous to do it publicly. But we did get a decent handful of LGBT folks whose opinions strayed away from the group think mentality of [...]

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Elite Force Navy Seals, Green Berets, Wrestle Over Gay Inclusion

From Washington Times: Special-operations troops think the elite force is facing difficulties by accepting open gays into one of the military’s more politically conservative communities. Interviews with current and former commandos reveal that to maintain unit cohesion of Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs or other elite covert warriors, the military services and U.S. Special Operations [...]

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Autumn Sandeen: Transgender Leader Or Get Equal’s Auntie Tomasina?

Transgender veteran Autumn Sandeen is featured today on That’s So Gay Live. The Get Equal activist talks about her experiences being arrested for chaining herself to the White House fence and all the merry adventures had this year in protesting DADT. She also extols on the virtues of social media in creating consensus and support [...]

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Conservative Blacks Angry Over DADT Repeal

Here’s our favorite quip from a black conservative here in Cali no less: “People will try to equate this to when Blacks were finally allowed to serve side by side with Whites. It is nothing of the kind, personally I get sick of them throwing up my skin color whenever they want to make a [...]

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DADT Repeal And Why Transgender Folks Should Heed The Lesson

We just watched a rather good segment of Michael Signorile’s show The Gist, in which he addresses a caller who asks the gay radio talk show host to consider the wisdom of President Obama’s long held commitment to have Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repealed through Congress.  The title of the show is Celebrate DADT Repeal, [...]

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