Brenda Fulton

Two senior positions in the Pentagon are being offered to an out lesbian and a trans woman, both veterans who broke multiple barriers and helped end anti-LGBTQ policies in the military.

WEST POINT, N.Y. — In a historic first for the venerable chapel at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Army veteran Brenda “Sue” Fulton married her longtime partner, Penelope Gnesin, in front of family and friends in a ceremony officiated by Army Chaplain, Colonel J. Wesley Smith of Dover Air Force Base.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday appointed the first openly gay person to the U.S. Military Academy’s Board of Visitors, the the board that advises the President on matters relating to West Point.