10 Personal Stories That Highlight Why Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Needs To Be Repealed Now

None of us want Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to exist. It’s a discriminatory policy that needs to come to end. However looking at it just as a policy makes it easy to forget about between reading one article and the next. What doesn’t make it so easy is when you see DADT as a weapon [...]

5 Ways You Can Make A Difference To The DADT Repeal Fight

Whilst the LGBT community might not agree on everything there is one thing that not one person would say they were against – the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the policy that prevents gays and lesbians from serving openly in the armed force. However whilst none of us want DADT to exist it can [...]

Richard Socarides Discusses How Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal Marks History In The Making

Richard Socarides, a former advisor to President Clinton has appeared on BBC World News where he spoke about the policy of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Discussing how he and gay rights groups had been angered by how President Obama had promised quick action in his Presidential election but had failed to deliver in his first [...]

Proposal On Lifting Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy To Be Announced By Pentagon Next Week

The Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell has announced that the Defense Department will next week announce a proposal to move forward on lifting the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the US military. Following on from President Obama’s pledge to work with Congress to get the ban [...]

Soldiers Promised Immunity If They Appear At Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal Hearings

Legislation has been introduced that will give lesbian and gay soldiers immunity if they are called to appear before Congress to give evidence on the current Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Put in place in 1993, this policy has acted to allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve in the US military, on the condition [...]