WASHINGTON — Two failed marriages were the cost of war for Sgt. Jennifer Schobey. The breaking point in her first marriage came when her husban...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — When a majority of troops told the Pentagon this summer they didn't care if gays were allowed to serve openly in the military, it w...
AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 05.25.2011
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — They are the few, the proud and perhaps the military's biggest opponents of lifting the ban on openly gay troops. Most of t...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — In a historic vote for gay rights, the Senate agreed on Saturday to do away with the military's 17-year ban on openly gay troops an...
Jezebel | Anonymous Soldier | Posted 05.25.2011
Ed. note: this letter was first posted on Jezebel.com and is reprinted with their permission. I'm writing letters to my loved ones in case I don't re...
Fred Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite a groundswell of support from the public to stop young people from taking their lives, the ongoing sanctioning by our government of lesser treatment for gay people is clearly missing from the dialogue.
Wired | Katie Drummond | Posted 05.25.2011
More than 30 years after it was written, the Pentagon has released a memorandum detailing its involvement in the CIA's infamous Cold War mind control ...
AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011
SEATTLE — A pressing legal reality for the "don't ask, don't tell" standard for gays serving in the military is that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...
Posted 05.25.2011
General David Petraeus is perfectly comfortable serving with gay men and women, he told CNN's Fareed Zakaria. Petraeus worked with gay CIA officers, ...
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011
Many may not know that Obama's name was placed in nomination by a man who identified himself as "a life-long Republican and an Iraq war veteran." His name is Michael Wilson; he served as an Air Force medic.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama does what all truly great leaders do: he speaks to the soul in plain self-revealing words of hope. We have never needed inspiration more.
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 05.25.2011