House Speaker Pelosi appoints gay Representative Jared Polis to supervisory board of Air Force Academy
”We’re all reading the tea leaves here. I’m not saying ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is going away. We can’t say that. But this is a good sign.”
Tricia Heller, a lesbian who is also a former Air Force Academy graduate working to end the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that excludes gays from serving openly in the Armed Forces. She is referring to the appointment of Jared Polis, a House Member from Colorado and openly gay, as the first . (Associated Press)
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