Gay Troops

Troops To March As Identifiable Group In Gay Parade For First Time

AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 09.14.2011

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SAN DIEGO — Sean Sala felt so elated when Congress approved repealing the military's ban on openly gay troops the 26-year-old sailor went on TV ...

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Gay Troops Cautiously Optimistic

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Don't cry," a 21-year-old specialist, one of the lieutenant's confidants, told his boss jokingly when news broke that 65 senators had voted to repeal...

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Why Does Obama Use Executive Power for Everything But Gay Troops?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nathaniel Frank

Sometimes moral and political leadership really are one and the same. Ending the needless firing of gay troops is one of those times.

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Gay Rights Group Reports Many Troops Openly Homosexual Without Consequences

USA Today | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.25.2011

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Army Sgt. Darren Manzella figured that stating he was gay on national television would surely get him booted from the military under the Pentagon's "d...

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