Posts tagged as Don't Ask Don't Tell
Tear-Jerking Soldier's Coming Out Day Marred by Extreme Hotness
For some time now, anonymous YouTube (and Twitter) user Are You Surprised has been posting videos about Don't Ask Don't Tell and being in the closet in the military (and giving workout updates via photos), and today he came out on video to the public and also came out as gay, by calling his dad. Now I'm sure this is all incredibly moving and socially important and a landmark breakthrough in social media or something, so congratulations to us all, but that is really not why we are all watching this video. Congratulations to gay members of the armed services today (and congratulations to all the rest of us). (via)
Current Senators Who Voted For, and then Against, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
John Kerry (D-MA)
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell Entirely Halted by Judge
"A federal judge has issued a nationwide injunction stopping enforcement of the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, ending the military's 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops."
Don't Ask Don't Tell But Also Don't Lie
"Even fending off advances from male cadets can create problems. 'You can't say, Sorry guys, I'm gay,' the senior said. 'And if I say, I have a boyfriend, I'm breaking the honor code.' Breaching the Cadet Honor Code-'a cadet will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do'-can result in serious discipline." READ MORE
Our Boy in D.C.: Lt. Dan Choi Hijacks HRC and Bravo
The Human Rights Campaign stands as the the most well-connected and "influential" gay lobbying group in the United States. The repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell is tops among their legislative goal this year. But winter is melting to spring and there is nothing to show other than Congressman Barney Frank's rumblings that repeal may not happen until 2011-when the 2012 elections, in which Democrats have 23 Senate seats up for reelection, are well gearing up. So HRC was forced to break out the big guns down in D.C. Who else to force the arc of history other than a reality show star? READ MORE
DADT: And Then They Came For The Hermaphrodites
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)-a vet who has his father's old seat in the House, and who says democracy doesn't work?-came out swinging against Don't Ask Don't Tell. His point of view is that the military bond (ooh) is broken "if you open up to the military to transgenders, to hermaphrodites, to gays and lesbians." Oh, so we're against the life choice of hermaphrodites now? READ MORE
Live: The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Hearings, with Ana Marie Cox
Oh hi, we're having a Don't Ask, Don't Tell party, on the occasion of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings today, hosted by Gay Friend In Chief Ana Marie Cox! And you're invited. READ MORE
