Tag Archives: Victor Fehrenbach

This morning I attended a press screening of the above title at HBO’s midtown headquarters. Servicemembers Legal Defense Network head Aubrey Sarvis and DADT activists Major Mike Almy and Colonel Victor Fehrenbach joined the filmmakers for a Q&A session after the film, which debuts tonight at midnight. Highly recommended! DADT officially ends tomorrow.

Discussing the coming documentary from HBO.

With Col. Victor Fehrenbach.

Openly gay Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach has been advised that he will be allowed to retire in October with his full rank and pension intact. The Air Force didn’t ask and Fehrenbach didn’t tell, but he was outed in 2008 by a man he met online. His case highlighted the idiocy of DADT. “It was a great sense of relief. …

Filmed before a live audience at NYC’s 92nd Street Y.

Last night Rachel Maddow devoted nearly her entire show to the repeal of DADT, interviewing several of its most high-profile victims, including Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach, who has just filed suit to stop his dismissal. Here’s how Maddow closed out the show.

Lt. Dan Choi and Col. Victor Fehrenbach take the cover of Instinct Magazine’s Leading Men Of 2009 issue. Here’s their online teaser for the story. Most know the basics of Dan’s story: A West Point graduate with a degree in Arabic who served an extended tour in Iraq from 2006-2007, Dan spent 10 years in the military before he was …

Dan Savage appeared on Olbermann last night to say that he found it “shocking” that Obama received “polite applause” at the White House LGBT cocktail party, when everybody in the room knew he could end the discharges immediately if he wanted to.

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 …

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.