Tag: Don’t Tell
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HRC Calls on Defense Secretary Panetta to Extend Benefits to Gay and Lesbian Service Members and Spouses
As part of the Human Rights Campaign’s ongoing effort to achieve full equality for gay and lesbian service members and their families, HRC is, in addition to calling on Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to issue military IDs to same-sex spouses, urging him to extend every possible benefit not specifically barred by the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
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HRC Calls On Secretary Panetta to Immediately Green Light Military IDs for Same-Sex Spouses
Yesterday a U.S. Army spokesperson backed the decision by the Association of [Fort] Bragg Officers’ Spouses to deny membership to the wife of a lesbian Army officer. Yet just days before, the Marine Corps Commandant instructed clubs at all Marine bases to welcome same-sex spouses as a condition of continued operation on Marine installations.
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GLAAD Joins Americans in Celebrating End of Military’s Discriminatory Ban
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, joins Americans in celebrating the end of the military’s discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law. Today, service men and women no longer face removal for being open about their sexual orientation.
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Discriminatory ban on gays and lesbians in the military officially ends tomorrow
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese issued the following statement on tomorrow’s historic end of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) law that has, for the past 17 years, prohibited qualified gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the armed forces.