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PHOTOS: Gay Activist Frank Kameny Honored By LGBT Community At Public Viewing

Posted 01.04.2012

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LGBT activist Dr. Franklin E. Kameny was honored on Thursday with a public viewing at the Carnegie Library in Washington, D.C. Kameny, who was 86 ...

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Just Battles

Robert J. Feldman | Posted 12.13.2011

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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.

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Dan Choi, Gay Ex-soldier, DADT Repeal Advocate Begins Process To Re-enlist

AP | By JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 12.09.2011

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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...

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Gays Discharged Under DADT Face Tough Odds To Rejoin Military

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.21.2011

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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...

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Officer Who Struggled Against DADT To Re-Enlist

Posted 11.20.2011

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Dan Choi, the outspoken gay activist who was discharged from the army for revealing his sexuality, told Politico on Tuesday that he plans to re-enlist...

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After Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Former Lt. Dan Choi Doubles Down On His Fight For Gay Equality

Posted 11.20.2011

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By Kevin Douglas Grant, GlobalPost NEW YORK — The American gay rights movement marks a milestone Tuesday — the official end of the U.S....

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Gay Rights on the Move? Obama's Incoherent Record

Anthony Gregory | Posted 11.01.2011

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Obama the politician talks about gay rights like a Stonewall activist, while as chief executive, he takes positions to the right of Dick Cheney.

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Dan Choi Trial Put On Hold

AP | By JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 11.01.2011

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By JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A gay former Army lieutenant who handcuffed himself to the White House fence to protest the milit...

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Dan Choi Testifies On White House Protest, Says He Is Being Targeted

AP | ERIC TUCKER | Posted 10.31.2011

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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...

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Dan Choi On Trial For 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Protest

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 10.29.2011

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WASHINGTON — A gay former Army lieutenant arrested for handcuffing himself to a White House fence during a protest is being treated differently ...

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Progressives 'Break Up' With Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.16.2011

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MINNEAPOLIS -- President Barack Obama is decidedly "not [the left's] boyfriend anymore," progressive supporters of gay- and immigrant-rights said on T...

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Dan Choi Beaten, Arrested At Moscow Gay Pride Parade

AmericaBlog | John Aravosis | Posted 07.28.2011

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It breaks all the rules of blogging to post a link at the top sending you away from this site, but OMG you have to see this Reuters photo of Dan Choi ...

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Live From Ground Zero

Janine Balekdjian | Posted 07.20.2011

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Last night, the students on campus experienced a euphoria we had never known before. We came of age in the era of terrorism, with attacks and fear dominating the headlines for our entire politically-conscious lives.

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Are CPAC's White Supremacists OK With Gays?

Bil Browning | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lt. Dan Choi and I talked with Devin Saucier, the Vice President of Youth for Western Civilization, about his group's position on LGBT people. The answer is not the one I expected.

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Dan Choi Ordered To Repay Military $2,500 After DADT Discharge

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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The F Word: Ask, Tell, Don't Kill

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last Thursday, 131 demonstrators -- many of them veterans -- were arrested outside of the White House, protesting war.

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Dan Choi DADT Repeal Reaction: 'I'm Sure That This Is Sending Shockwaves' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Former army lieutenant Dan Choi -- who was discharged from service under the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy after coming out and since has em...

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Tell the US Senate Not to Go Home Until DADT Is Repealed

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 05.25.2011

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The House has now passed the standalone "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal bill -- legislation I was proud to introduce in the Senate. Now the Senate must get it done and we must stay in session until we do.

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Dan Choi Hospitalized

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 ...

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I Had a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Dream (And John McCain's Not Gonna Like It)

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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I found myself in a Washington, D.C. hotel lobby surrounded by a group of drag queens attending a gay fundraising event. As a matter of fact, I was in drag, too! Suddenly the doors opened and John McCain was walking directly toward me.

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Dan Choi Boycotting MSNBC Over Olbermann Suspension

Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Discharged Gay Soldier Dan Choi WON'T Vote For Obama Due To DADT

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lt. Dan Choi, a gay soldier discharged from the U.S. Army under "don't ask, don't tell," said Thursday that he won't vote for President Obama again du...

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Lt. Dan Choi, Openly Gay And Excited To Rejoin Military In Face Of Possible DADT Repeal (VIDEO)

Posted 11.17.2011

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Since last week's court decision, in which a federal judge ordered the military to immediately stop enforcing Don't Ask Don't Tell, the Pentagon annou...

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Lt. Dan Choi, You're In The Army Now!

The New Civil Rights Movement | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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For Gay Servicemembers, Liberty Trumped Institution in Both DADT and Prop 8 Rulings

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

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All's fair in love and war... unless you're gay. This summer's culture wars have touched on two ends of our social fabric: marriage equality, and equality in military service.

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