Tag Archives: DADT

Study On Trans Military Service Gets Grant

The Palm Institute has received a $1.3M private grant to study transgender military service. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: Indra Lusero, the project director of the Palm Center’s Transgender Military Initiative, has commissioned 16 scholars to conduct 11 studies investigating “whether and how the U.S. armed forces could include transgender troops without undermining readiness”—in areas ranging from privacy and medical …

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Engaged

The gay Marine whose homecoming kiss went globally viral last year has gotten engaged to his boyfriend.  Via Towleroad, here’s the video of Brandon Morgan popping the question. From the clip’s description: “The sound is bad, but what I was saying was ‘with the repeal of DOMA or not, will you do me the honor of spending your life with …

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Perkins: We Were Right About DADT

“President Obama is finally admitting that sexual assault is a serious problem in the military, but what he hasn’t conceded is that his policy on homosexuality helped create it. According to a new Pentagon survey, most of the victims were not female (12,000 incidents), but male (14,000), highlighting a growing trend of same-sex assault in our ranks. How could this …

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Today On World Net Daily

We haven’t heard much from anti-gay crackpot Elaine Donnelly since the repeal of DADT, but today she appears on World Net Daily to gleefully join in on wingnut claims that gay rapists are running rampant in the military. Among the assaults formally reported, 88 percent of reports came from women and 12 percent from men. The numbers are getting dramatically …

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Dan Savage On Jason Collins’ Coming Out: This Feels Almost As Big As DADT Repeal

With Athlete Ally founder Hudson Taylor on the panel.

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) Regrets His Vote Against The Repeal Of DADT

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), one of the three Senate Democrats not yet to endorse same-sex marriage, now says he regrets voting against the repeal of DADT. In December 2010, Manchin broke with Democrats and cast a vote against a procedural motion to advance “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal legislation. When the Senate voted to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” …

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Dan Choi Found Guilty, Fined $100

Yesterday Dan Choi was found guilty at his trial for a 2010 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” protest outside the White House where he was arrested with a dozen other protesters for refusing police orders to leave the area. Choi was fined a symbolic $100.  The Washington Post reports: The guilty finding against Daniel Choi came as the West Point graduate …

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Dan Choi’s DADT Trial Is This Week

Via press release: On March 28, Lt. Choi will defend himself in a rare criminal trial at the federal level for peaceful protest. The charges are “failure to obey a lawful order” by the US Park Police for protesting in front of the White House — a zone famous for free speech, assembly and petition for redress of grievance. Lt. …

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Letter To A Gay WWII Soldier

Posted yesterday to Upworthy via Hypervocal which notes: “The pro-gay magazine, ONE, first published the letter in 1961 and the original is supposedly preserved in the Library of Congress.”

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NOM: Military Chaplains Under Attack!

Via today’s money beg from Brian Brown: Dear Joe,  As you know, President Obama is doing everything in his power to undermine the Defense of Marriage Act by pushing an aggressive, pro-gay marriage agenda in the military.  It should therefore come as no surprise that the individuals most directly and severely affected by the President’s actions are heroic military chaplains. …

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Extends Some Rights To Gay Military Families

Outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta today extended some privileges to gay members of the military and their families. Among the benefits to be offered are military ID cards for spouses, joint duty assignments, and access to support programs for military families. Via press release from Panetta’s office: Seventeen months ago, the United States military ended the policy of “Don’t …

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Chuck Hagel Grilled On Gay Rights

Clips are via AmericaBLOG where John Aravosis writes: Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel was asked twice today about gays in the military, and gave answers that sounded somewhat rambling and confused. Which is odd, since he was obviously prepared for these kind of questions after the controversy over the past month regarding his past anti-gay statements while serving in the …

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Tony Perkins: Military Suicides Are Rising Because Of DADT Repeal

“The volume of these decisions coming out of this administration is unbelievable, unbelievable. The stress in our military, when you look how they have used the military for their social experimentation: driving Christianity out, putting homosexuality in, suicide rate going through the ceiling. I think it was last year if I recall the numbers there were 349 suicides in 2012 …

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Air Force Veteran Fired Under DADT Named As Inauguration Citizen Co-Chair

Former Air Force SSgt. David Hall, who was discharged under DADT, has been named a Citizen Co-Chair of President Obama’s second inauguration celebration.  Via press release from OutServe-SLDN, where Hall is now a staffer: “This is certainly the honor of a lifetime, and I am grateful to President Obama for his leadership in repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ so that …

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Marine Corps Orders On-Base Social Clubs To Accept Gay Spouses

Responding to an ongoing controversy at Fort Bragg, the Marine Corps today issued a directive that on-base “spouses clubs” must admit the husbands and wives of gay service members. It’s a step that the other service branches have not yet announced as they grapple with how to accommodate same-sex couples following repeal of the don’t ask, don’t tell policy that …

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ACLU WINS: Vets Discharged Under DADT To Get Full Separation Pay

Some service members discharged until DADT will finally receive their full separation pay thanks to a class action suit won today by the ACLU.  Windy City Times reports: “There was absolutely no need to subject these service members to a double dose of discrimination by removing them from the armed forces in the first place, and then denying them this …

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HomoQuotable – Anthony Romero

“President Obama has utterly failed the first test of his second term, even before inauguration day. His signature means indefinite detention without charge or trial, as well as the illegal military commissions, will be extended. He also has jeopardized his ability to close Guantanamo during his presidency. Scores of men who have already been held for nearly 11 years without …

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President Obama Signs Defense Funding Bill That Includes “Protections” For Anti-Gay Military Members & Clergy

Last night President Obama signed the funding authorization bill for the Department of Defense which includes “protections” against the punishment of military members and clergy who harass gay soldiers. Those so-called protections, sponsored by Rep. Todd Akin, were discussed here last month and were backed by GOP House members opposed to the repeal of DADT.  The president included a signing …

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Tweet Of The Day

Colonel Margaret Cammermeyer, you should know, was played by Glenn Close in the 1995 movie Serving In Silence, which tracked her successful court battle to be reinstated to the Washington National Guard after her 1989 disclosure that she is a lesbian. Cammermeyer now serves on a civilian advisory committee to the Department of Defense after retiring from the National Guard …

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