The Senate Armed Services Committee this week unanimously passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with none of the anti-gay amendments that were attached to the House version of the bill.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked efforts to authorize repeal of the military's ban on openly gay service members, voting unanimously against advancing the Defense Authorization Bill -- legislation that included [...]

A retired U.S. general has told senators that the Dutch policy of allowing gays to serve openly in its military was partly to blame for its failure to prevent the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. In testimony [...]

Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) introduced a bill on Wednesday to repeal the ban on openly gay service members in the military. The current law, dubbed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," calls [...]

A planned November hearing by the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee to consider ending a ban on gays serving openly in the U.S. military will be postponed, a spokeswoman indicated [...]