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Gates instructs department to accelerate efforts to end ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
U. S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has instructed the Defense Department to accelerate efforts to end the policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which bans on openly gay military personnel from serving.
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Navy captain relieved of command over raunchy, anti-gay videos
Capt. Owen Honors, the U.S. Navy officer who commanded the USS Enterprise and produced several controversial — and often anti-gay — videos while second in command aboard the aircraft carrier, has been permanently relieved of his command.
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President Obama signs ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal — ‘It’s a good day’
WASHINGTON — This morning, before packed audience in the Sydney Yates auditorium at the U. S. Department of the Interior building, President Barack Obama signed the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” into law.
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Anti-gay organization wants to reclaim the rainbow symbol from the ‘gay lobby’
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and president of the San Diego based Ruth Institute, says that the rainbow symbol needs to be reclaimed from “the gay lobby” because “the rainbow is a sign of God’s covenant with man.”
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Activist groups scorn GOP-led defeat of defense bill, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal
A visibly irritated Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-Nev.), came to the floor of the U. S. Senate earlier this afternoon, and in a short speech announced that efforts to seek a compromise with Senate Republicans on the Defense Authorization Bill had failed, and that he was going to ask for a cloture vote.
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Illinois General Assembly passes LGBT-inclusive civil union bill
The Illinois General Assembly passed the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act on Wednesday, establishing legal protections for same-sex couples across the state.
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‘Don’t Know, Don’t Care’ — 70% of U.S. military surveyed unfazed by repeal of DADT
The final results of the Defense Department working group’s report on repeal of the 17-year-old “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” ban on openly gay service members reveals that 70 percent of the members of the U. S. armed forces believe it would have little or no effect on their unit’s missions, morale, or operations.
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Graham: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is not going anywhere — McCain: DADT is working
Appearing on the Sunday talk shows yesterday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), continued to fight against repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military ban on openly gay service members.
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United Nations vote will lead to more LGBT murders, activists claim
A vote last week by the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Committee has LGBT and human rights activists outraged over the decision to remove sexual orientation from an anti-execution resolution.
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Vice-President Joe Biden lends his voice to the ‘It Gets Better’ project
The White House this week released Vice-President Joe Biden’s contribution to the national anti-bullying video campaign, “It gets better,” in the ongoing effort to quell the number of LGBTQ youth and young adult suicides.