Barry Winchell

Will We Wait Until Another Gay Sailor Is Murdered?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics


Nathaniel Frank

Last week a 29-year-old gay sailor was found shot to death at a guard shack at Camp Pendleton. His death is Exhibit A for why the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy should end now.

Remembering Pfc. Barry Winchell on the 10th Anniversary of His Murder

Michael Rowe | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics


Michael Rowe

The real cost of Don't Ask, Don't Tell has always been the human one -- Barry Winchell's life, of course, beaten out of him with a baseball bat over the 4th of July weekend 10 years ago.