Thank You for the ‘Thank Yous’

For some reason, the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ issue has become extremely personal for me. No, not just because I served under it, nor just because I was discharged early from the military because of it. Several hundred thousand gays and lesbians have served under DADT and over 13,000 have been discharged under it. Few, [...]

Debrief on NPR/Fresh Air Interview

This afternoon I recorded an hour long interview with NPR’s Terry Gross for tomorrow’s ‘Fresh Air’ episode on DADT and the national premier of ‘Ask Not.’ Over the past four years I’ve done hundreds of pieces of media on DADT, through which I thought I had exhaustively explored every nook and cranny of my experience [...]

Life on the J List

After more than a year of film festivals and community screenings, ‘ASK NOT’ (the landmark new documentary from PBS on DADT, gay troops and veterans, and the DADT Repeal Movement) is making its national broadcast debut next week on PBS. It’s a little sad, in a way, because having ‘ASK NOT’ on the film festival [...]

The Gayest Show On Earth

When I was in boot camp at Ft. Benning, GA back in 2001, we strangely got a 3-hour reprieve toward the end of our cycle to go see the U.S. Army Soldiers Show. I think that was the first time I had it confirmed that there were others “like me” in the Army. According to [...]

SU Member Dan Choi on Maddow and CNN

SU member and all-around-good-guy Dan Choi will be appearing on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show on Thursday night at 9pm and again on CNN’s American Morning Show at 8:40pm to talk about his pending discharge under DADT. Dan (who is a 1LT in the New York Army National Guard, a West Point graduate, a former [...]

Philadelphia: Round One

Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in the Equality Forum’s annual ‘National History Panel.’ As you might expect, this year the topic of the ‘National History Panel’ was gay men and women in the U.S. military. The panel consisted of myself, both in my capacity as Executive Director of Servicemembers United and as [...]

A Thousand Reasons

On November 30, 2007, when 28 flag officers (generals and admirals) publicly announced their support for repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ at a press conference we put on as part of SU’s ’12,000 Flags for 12,000 Patriots’ event on the National Mall, I knew it was only a matter of time before the One-Woman [...]

Boom!

SO…. It’s been a while and I haven’t been the best among our SU member bloggers about keeping up my blog, but Jarrod has been keeping on me lately about posting now (and posting regularly) as we get ready for our ramp-up of SU, so here I am. Although I love reading blogs, the act [...]

Moving Forward: SU and DADT in 2009

Yesterday, November 30th, marked the 15th anniversary of the signing of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law. In light of the significant shifts in the political winds of late, it now remains unclear whether the law will even live to see its next anniversary date. Yesterday also marked the anniversary of an unprecedented event and [...]

A Candid Bill Clinton on DADT

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