Tag Archives: DADT

In a video posted at The Daily Beast, reporter Jason Bellini claims that Sen. Chuck Schumer “let it slip” that the Human Rights Campaign told “Senators and members of the U.S. House” to put aside the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and instead focus on ENDA and the hate crimes act. UPDATE: Michael Cole, Senior Communications Manager of the …

Barack Obama’s new nominee for Secretary of the Army, Rep. John McHugh (R-NY), agrees with the president that DADT needs to be “changed,” whatever that means these days. The Advocate’s Kerry Eleveld pressed White House press secretary Robert Gibbs about the nomination, asking if McHugh’s stance on DADT played into his selection. As usual, Gibbs gave an evasive answer. “I …

(Via JMG reader Richard)

An estimated 3000 activists rallied in California’s heartland yesterday for the Meet In The Middle 4 Equality event, which was preceded by a 14-mile march from the symbolically chosen town of Selma. With lively chants and rainbow flags, several thousand people rallied in Fresno today, aiming to persuade California’s conservative heartland to support same-sex marriage rights. Just days after the …

Over 200 gay soldiers have been kicked out of the military since Barack Obama took office. And time is running out for Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach. The winner of nine air medals for distinguished service in flight, including one for heroism the night U.S. forces captured Baghdad International Airport in 2003, Fehrenbach is in the process of getting kicked out …

About 200 gay activists appeared outside the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles tonight to protest President Obama’s perceived inaction on LGBT rights. The president was inside attending a DNC fundraising dinner. During the protest, the crowd chanted, “Out of the court, into the streets, we are ready to fight, we won’t be beat.” It was a reference to Tuesday’s state …

CNN covers DADT casualty Lt. Dan Choi’s appearance at yesterday’s Prop 8 rally in Los Angeles and interviews him about his now-leading role in the campaign to turn back discrimination in the military.

But the Admiral says he needs time to make an “objective assessment” of the impact of a repeal “if any.”

Former Wonkette editor Ana Marie Cox puts the screws to Robert Gibbs on DADT again. Wait for the end as Rachel Maddow points out Gibbs’ big lie.

I find it more than a little annoying that while the Obama administration continues to kick out highly skilled soldiers like Lt. Dan Choi and Lt. Col. Victor Fehrehbach, the U.S. Navy has NO problem using openly lesbian rocker Joan Jett to promote NYC’s Fleet Week. Over on the website of the Commander Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, you’ll find several photos …

After 18 years of service, highly-decorated Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach is being discharged for being gay.

The Courage Campaign has nearly 120,000 signatures on its “Don’t Fire Dan Choi” petition. Lt. Dan Choi, from Orange County, California, is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and an Iraq War veteran. Last March he went on Rachel Maddow’s show and spoke three truthful words: “I am gay.” As a result Lt. Choi received a …

Lesbian bloggers Auto-Straddle attended yesterday’s anti-gay marriage rally and got some great footage along with an interview with DADT casualty Lt. Dan Choi. Hang on until the end for a hawt kiss between Choi and his handsome BF.

A reporter put White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on the spot today, asking about the logical disconnect presented by the president’s decision not to release torture photos because “they would endanger troops still in Iraq”, yet he’ll fire a critical Arab linguist like openly gay Lt. Dan Choi, whose valuable work surely protects the troops. Gibbs pretends not to …

Add Uruguay to the list of nations more progressive than the United States when it comes to the military. Uruguay is moving to lift a ban on homosexuals joining the armed forces. The defense ministry confirms that Minister Jose Bayardi has signed a decree lifting the ban imposed by the 1973-85 military dictatorship. The army said Wednesday it has received …

“Here we are, in the summer of 2009, with gay servicemembers still being fired for the fact of their orientation. Here we are, with marriage rights spreading through the country and world and a president who cannot bring himself even to acknowledge these breakthroughs in civil rights, and having no plan in any distant future to do anything about it …

“I believe that same-sex marriage will be approved by a majority of the fifty states in the Union within the next five years. When that occurs, the federal resistance will end and the Congress will vote in favor of federal recognition of same-sex marriages with equal benefits to both homosexual and heterosexual couples. [snip] “The very next political objective of …

The British army is having a slight problem with their female soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. Seems they are getting knocked up by fellow soldiers at an rapid pace and getting sent home from combat zones. It’s a good thing our soldiers don’t have to deal with openly gay comrades, otherwise there’d be all kinds of….wait, what?