All posts tagged "dadt"
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Gay Vets and Top Brass
He said he was there “to help to secure jobs for people who want to serve our country.” Despite having been “discharged twice under ‘Don’t...
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Moving to MAP
Calling it a ''natural progression,'' Nathaniel Frank will be leaving the Palm Center -- his academic home of the past decade where he gained national...
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Fighting Back
The difficulties of having a bill to repeal the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy considered by a committee whose chairman said only in January that...
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News Analysis: DADT's State of Play
On Friday afternoon, April 30, at a little past 4 p.m., the Associated Press's Anne Flaherty posted a brief story that the secretary of defense...
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Howard Dean on DADT Repeal [video]
Former chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean joined more than 100 people in Lafayette Park on Sunday, May 2, at a rally organized...
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Looking for Leadership on DADT
From an appearance by former chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean to six civilians who chained themselves to the White House fence, pressure...
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Pentagon Wants Delay on DADT Repeal UPDATED
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent a letter to the chairman of the House...
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HRC Under Fire
When it comes to laying blame for a lack of progress on LGBT equality, activists aren't just focusing on President Barack Obama and Congress....
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Get Rational
Get Equal, which specializes in direct actions like heckling our allies with demands for Total Equality Right Now, has at least one like-minded boor in...
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Don't Wait, Don't Stop
''I remember these two gentlemen,'' D.C. Superior Court Magistrate Judge Richard Ringell said. ''Mr Choi, he saluted me. It's the only time I've been saluted.''...
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Lt. Dan Choi, Mara Boyd and Autumn Sandeen at D.C. Courthouse [video]
Six former or current LGBT servicemembers who were arrested at a White House protest on Tuesday, April 20, were released from jail on Wednesday after...
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Protest Coverage Cut Short [UPDATED]
Reporters expect to have occasional fights over access. It comes with the job. But, it's unlikely reporters expected the literal pushback they faced on Tuesday...
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To Vote or Not to Vote
The White House this afternoon called a report claiming that the White House was telling House members not to hold a vote on repealing the...
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Sheehan's Retreat
Less than two weeks after retired Gen. John J. Sheehan told the Senate Armed Services Committee that a Dutch general had told him that openly...
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The Politics of Repeal
Calling the changes to the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' military policy a ''great improvement'' that supportive members of Congress had ''been urging them to do,''...
