DON'T ASK DON'T TELL

U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) speaks during the Reuters Future Face of Finance Summit in Washington, March 2, 2011. The summit brings together policymakers and financial leaders to give their views and news on who will come out on top, which countries are emerging as hostile environments to business, which firms may dodge the toughest reforms and which mergers will stick. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS HEADSHOT)
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POLITICS
Transgender Troops Will Hurt The Military? People Said That About Gay Troops, Too.
By Jennifer Bendery
"It is exactly the same argument," says Barney Frank. "There have been zero negative consequences."
A rainbow flag flies as people protest U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals from serving in any capacity in the U.S. military, in Times Square, in New York City, New York, U.S., July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
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QUEER VOICES
When Will My Country Fight For Me?
By Z Shane Zaldivar, Contributor
Indigenous Trans Man of Color and USMC Vet
Thoughts on the banning of trans military service from a USMC veteran.
QUEER VOICES
Miriam Ben-Shalom: The Woman Who Fought 'Don’t Ask Don’t Tell'
By Julia Diana Robertson جوليا ديانا, Contributor
Author
Back then, women who refused to fall in line with a male-dominated way of thinking, were shut down immediately.
QUEER VOICES
Gay Iraq War Vet Asks Texas Congressman Who Honored Him To Stop Voting Against Him
By Thom Senzee, Contributor
Thom Senzee is an experienced-trained journalist with 20 years...
November, 2016 For nearly a year, Sala has ruminated about the uncomfortable way he felt after Congressman Burgess laid words
QUEER VOICES
Five Years Later: Gays In The Military Paved The Way
By Aubrey Sarvis, Contributor
Army veteran and former Executive Director of SLDN (Servicemem...
Five years ago on September 21, 2011, lesbian, gay, and bi service members began serving openly without fear of discharge
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - SEPTEMBER 20: Protestors hold signs as they celebrate the end of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' but demand equal rights on September 20, 2011 in San Francisco, California. The end of the 18 year-old law 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' took effect today now allowing gays to openly serve in the armed forces. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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QUEER VOICES
Don’t Ask Don't Tell Is Still Destroying Lives
By Cacilia Kim and Elizabeth Kristen, Contributors
Repeal alone does not right the injustices suffered by thousands.
QUEER VOICES
Five Years Later: The End Of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Is Historic Progress We Must Fight To Keep
By Stephen Peters, Contributor
Spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign. Founder & Presiden...
Today marks the five-year anniversary of the official end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) -- the archaic and deeply discriminatory
POLITICS
Air Force Injustice: The Generals - 'Self Before Service'
By Tom Carpenter, Contributor
Attorney, graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, former Marine an...
The United States Air Force declares its core values as "Integrity First, Service Before Self, Excellence in All We Do." However, the treatment and trial of Air Force 1st Lt. Joshua Seefried is an affront to those values.
Republican U.S.presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) stands with Indiana Governor Mike Pence (L), as Trump family members look on after Pence was introduced as Trump's vice presidential running mate in New York City, U.S., July 16, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Brendan McDermid / Reuters
QUEER VOICES
Mike Pence: Even More Extreme Than Donald Trump
By Matt Baume, Contributor
Seattle-based writer & storyteller
So what’s so bad about Mike Pence? Just "ask the gays."
CULTURE & ARTS
US Premiere of Manning Drama
By Lew J Whittington, Contributor
arts journalist
Price's visceral, sometimes surreal theatrical account of the key events leading up to Manning's imprisonment, is more impressive as an incisive character study to investigate what made Manning a born rebel with a cause.
QUEER VOICES
Life Before and After 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Nate Warden, Contributor
Coming Out, Founder & Executive Director
Being outed from duty location to duty location has become such a theme that I like to consider myself just out. It seems there is always someone before I show up at my base that does the ice breaking for me out of either curiosity or prejudice, either one has the same effect.
POLITICS
U.S. Senate: Confirm Eric Fanning as Secretary of the Army
By Greg Cope White, Contributor
Author, Humorist, US Marine, Cook
As a former Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, I'm used to "hurry up and wait." As a gay man, I've waited my entire life for more public heroes. To all U.S. Senators: Let Freedom ring. Let Eric Fanning serve.
Bernie Sanders denounces a homophobic slur on the House Floor in 1995.
C-SPAN
POLITICS
Watch Bernie Sanders Demolish A Republican Over 'Homos In The Military'
By Zach Carter
Rewind to 1995.
QUEER VOICES
Every American Is Fit to Fight, to Serve, to Be
By Greg Cope White, Contributor
Author, Humorist, US Marine, Cook
America is going through LGBT civil rights boot camp, and it's making our society stronger. Change, like recruit training, is hard. The results are worth it.
US President Barack Obama signs the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 into law at the Department of the Interior in Washington, DC, on December 22, 2010. Obama signed a law allowing gays to serve openly in the military, repealing the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy in a sweeping and historic shift for the US armed forces. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Obama Commemorates Fifth Anniversary Of 'Dont Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal
By Sam Levine
Still, he said there was more work to do to protect LGBT Americans.
Military Partners and Families Coalition
POLITICS
Celebrated Openly Gay Air Force Officer Among 6 Killed In Afghanistan
Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen married her wife shortly after the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
QUEER VOICES
Where's Log Cabin Republican Activism This Campaign Season?
By Irene Monroe, Contributor
Monroe’s a religion columnist, weekly commentator on Boston Pu...
I am hoping to see LGBTQ Republicans publicly bring to the fore how being anti-LGBTQ in 2015 is a huge political liability for any Republican candidate, especially one seeking the highest office in the land.
POLITICS
Restoring Honor to LGBT Veterans
By Charles Rangel, Contributor
Member of the US Congress since 1971, currently representing N...
Congress's repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was a watershed moment that ended institutionalized discrimination unjustly targeting gay, lesbian and bisexual service members. Yet thousands of service members who were discharged because of their sexual orientation still bear the scars of that discrimination.
QUEER VOICES
Why Protest Someone Who Agrees With You? Here's Why.
By Matt Baume, Contributor
Seattle-based writer & storyteller
If you're a member of any group that's been shut out, pushed aside, forgotten or made fun of, you'll never change anything by following the rules. The rules are what marginalized you in the first place. You've got to break a few of them if you want to make history.
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