The pardon will allow thousands of LGBTQ former service members to amend their military records and potentially recoup lost pay and benefits.
Ten years after the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the VA will allow discharged LGBTQ military veterans to recoup the benefits they lost.
Speaker Pelosi, HRC, the Task Force, the Victory Fund are a few organizations celebrating the executive order.
Policy would be easy to implement, and would be life-changing for non-exempt service members and currently-barred recruits
”The partners of gay service members will not at this point be given any special rights or any rights that parallel those of a spouse.”...
Donald Trump has rescinded a Biden order allowing transgender people to serve in the military, raising the specter of a future ban.
President Joe Biden has signed into law a military funding bill, complete with a ban on transgender health treatments.
Congressional lawmakers passed a military funding bill banning TriCare from covering transgender health treatments for minors.
Trump's Defense Secretary nominee publicly lamented that allowing LGBTQ soldiers to serve openly would "erode" military standards.
Prohibition on military service would discharge at least 15,000 transgender individuals and ban any future transgender enlistees.
The online ad uses the (anti-)war film "Full Metal Jacket" to push Trump's vision of a hypermasculine fighting force.
Our readers weigh in on whether President Biden should continue his campaign or gracefully bow out, among other election-related questions.
Biden agreed to a Republican-backed provision in the spending bill that Pride flags from being flown outside U.S. embassies.
Citing GOP-led efforts to roll back personal freedoms, advocates vow to mobilize pro-LGBTQ voters on the president's behalf.
President Joe Biden hosted a picnic-style Pride Month event on Saturday at the White House.