Robert J. Feldman | Posted 12.13.2011
Some clients serve as teachers. Lt. Dan Choi has served as a veritable institution of higher learning. He has taught us true tenacity and a never-give-up spirit by his tireless example of getting arrested again and again for what he knows is right.
AP | By JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 12.09.2011
WASHINGTON -- A gay West Point graduate who was discharged from the Army for revealing his sexual orientation says he has begun the process of re-enli...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.21.2011
WASHINGTON -- Tuesday's parties celebrating the end of "don't ask, don't tell" are giving way to a morning-after reality: gays who left the military b...
AP | By JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 11.01.2011
By JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A gay former Army lieutenant who handcuffed himself to the White House fence to protest the milit...
AP | ERIC TUCKER | Posted 10.31.2011
WASHINGTON -- A gay former Army officer arrested outside the White House for protesting the government's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the...
Windy City Times | Posted 07.31.2011
Story courtesy of the Windy City Times Gay Liberation Network ( GLN ) co-founder Andy Thayer is among several people who have been arrested for par...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Under don't ask, don't tell (DADT), not only does an openly gay service member get kicked out of the military, but he or she may have to...
Lt. Dan Choi | Posted 05.25.2011
To all the supporters of equality and Don't Ask, Don't Tell's death, I am so grateful. As the legislation signals a new chapter in our journey, I call on all soldiers to gain the courage to come out.
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Army Lieutenant Dan Choi, perhaps the most prominent face pioneering the effort to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on openly gay ...
Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011
The "Out 100" party has the distinction of being one of the few events where political hopefuls chat up pop artists, and reality TV stars are greeted with the same enthusiasm as porn actors as well as one notoriously disgruntled flight attendant.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.25.2011
A recent survey shows 90% of military families believe that civilian communities do not understand their needs nor support the values and dignity that come with a military career. Short of returning to a draft, what is to be done?
Posted 05.25.2011
Dan Choi announced today that he is boycotting MSNBC over the network's suspension of Keith Olbermann. "I'm declining interviews on MSNBC and affil...
The New Civil Rights Movement | Posted 05.25.2011
Lt. Dan Choi, the Iraq war veteran, Arab linguist, and West Point grad turned "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal activist, today got what he had said he w...
Lt. Dan Choi | Posted 05.25.2011
Judge Phillips has forthrightly exercised her unquestionable moral authority and lived up to her mandate to defend our constitution against a most vicious domestic enemy: discrimination against honest Americans.
Waymon Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011
Lieutenant Dan Choi's National Guard unit has notified him by mail and phone he has been fully discharged and is no longer serving as an American solider.
Joe Mirabella | Posted 05.25.2011
Press Secretary Gibbs told reporters Wednesday that the President does not intend to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell this year. This news comes on the heals of several days of civil disobedience by the new LGBT civil rights organization, GetEqual.
Ryan J. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
On Wednesday night, a gay youth homeless shelter was vandalized with anti-gay graffiti that read; "We don't want gay people here."
Aaron Glantz | Posted 05.25.2011
In his State of the Union address to Congress, President Obama promised to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which forbids gays and lesbians fro...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
CORRECTION: Seems I got a bit ahead of the field here. Allow Richard Allen Smith, over at VetVoice, to explain: Reports began circulating earlier to...
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 05.25.2011
The Don't Ask Don't Tell Story Project will introduce Americans to some of the brave men and women who have been harmed by this unjust policy.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.25.2011
Dan Choi's poignant point fell on deaf ears at his hearing and while he is still an active soldier, he has been recommended for discharge under Don't Ask, Don't Tell, something the Commander in Chief could halt.
Lt. Dan Choi | Posted 05.25.2011
I have spent my life in the army fighting for what I believe is right, and to uphold the American dream both at home and abroad. For me, that has meant fighting, actively, against the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
Amy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011
Lt. Dan Choi's pre-existing conditions -- being gay and being honest about it -- may be enough to keep him out of the Veterans Affairs health care system for life.
John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011
This Fourth of July, consider the true cost of freedom. Beyond spilled blood and loss of life, it is tolerating those not like us, who wish to defend us.
Laurence Watts | Posted 02.04.2012