It's been a disturbing 24 hours. But the White House has just updated its Web site to indicate that it continues to support the repeal of the Don't As...
Joan Garry | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
In 1993, Bill Clinton signed "Don't Ask Don't Tell" into law. And 16 years later, the gay community has a friend in the White House again and it looks like we are going to get another turn at bat.
Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics
I have been an officer in the US Air Force for the last 18 years. At every step in my service I have been repeatedly informed of my responsibility to prevent discrimination based on gender, race and religion.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
Their warning of the "grave harm" that will ensue if gays and lesbians are allowed to serve openly in our all-volunteer military was essentially that volunteers will leave in droves.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
It is past time for our elite universities to reconsider their sometime anti-military bias that is most clearly expressed in their continuing (often bitter) opposition to restoring ROTC to campus.
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
Elaine Donnelly's list of 1,000 officers proves only one thing: That the more things change, the more the agents of intolerance will fight to keep them the same.
AP | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Don't expect any change soon to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy about gays in the military. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama has begun consulting his top defense advisers on how to lift a ban on gays serving open...
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
Rep. Ellen Tauscher has just announced she'll introduce a bill to repeal the ban on open gays in the military, a momentous step that comes on the 15th anniversary of this highly unpopular policy.
Steve Ralls | Posted 04.02.2009 | World
The government of Argentina, an increasingly welcoming South American country when it comes to lesbians and gays, officially ended its prohibition on open service in the armed forces.
The Plum Line | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
Uh oh -- this could be a bit of a test for President Obama: The office of Dem Rep. Ellen Tauscher confirms that she will introduce legislation today ...
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
I believe Congress will be in lockstep with the President on a repeal of DADT. At the end of this year, the law that bars gay men and women from serving openly in the military can be gone.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
The world is counting on Obama. Here at home millions in the LGBT community, and thousands of gays and lesbians now serving their country but forced to serve in silence, they are counting on him too.
Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
It turns out that Barack Obama's civil rights issue is now coming clearly into focus, and it's not about race. It's about gays.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
Repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell has been floated as one opportunity for Obama, but I encourage the new President to try frying a bigger fish -- the Defense of Marriage Act.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics
The radical shift in Powell's stance on LGBT issues should not give him a carte blanche. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell justified homophobia as a simple objection to a behavioral choice.
Huffington Post | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics
Colin Powell appeared on Fareed Zakaria's CNN how, the "Global Public Square." During a wide-ranging interview, Zakaria brought up the policy of "Don...
Steve Ralls | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
In answering inquiries about the military's ban, General Powell has raised more questions than he has offered answers about where he stands on the issue of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics
I am confident that Mr. Obama will work to end the ban on lesbians and gays serving openly in the military. Why am I so confident? Because Barack Obama said so.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
Because gay civil rights struggles affect fewer individuals, it's hard to justify putting them at the top of the list. The alternative is to reject the ranked priorities political model altogether.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
To get rid of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" we must proceed deliberately and according to a plan, which will not require grandstanding, but rather actual leadership.
John Ridley | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
While this will not be an easy fight, it also won't likely be a return to the belabored hearings of the Clinton presidency which produced the Bizarro World Don't Ask, Don't Tell non-policy of not asking what nobody's saying.
Norman Solomon | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media
The fog of memory and the spin of media are teaming up to explain that Obama must hew to "the center" if he knows what's good for his presidency.
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
Yesterday a document was released that was signed by over one hundred retired generals and admirals calling for repeal of the gay ban.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
General Powell, is there is something wrong with a gay kid dreaming he or she could one day be a soldier in the Army of the United States?
America Blog | John Aravosis | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics