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Trump picks Tennessee’s most anti-LGBTQ lawmaker to replace gay Army secretary
State Sen. Mark Green is the main sponsor of a bill that targets LGBTQ people just like North Carolina’s HB2 did.
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Judge William Norris, who wrote groundbreaking opinion on gay soldiers, dies
Judge Norris wrote an precedent-setting opinion in 1988 calling the U.S. Army’s ban on gay soldiers unconstitutional, comparing it to a ban on interracial marriage.
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Obama pardons former soldier convicted in 1989 of having gay sex
The Georgia resident was convicted of “conduct unbecoming an officer” because he was in a relationship with another man.
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Defense nominee says he doesn’t care who ‘two consenting adults go to bed with’
“If someone brings me a problem,” James Mattis told Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, “I will look at it but I am not coming in looking for problems,”
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Will Obama’s greatest accomplishment be his record on LGBT rights?
Obama took office in 2009 as a self-described “fierce advocate” for LGBT rights, yet for much of his first term drew flak from activists who viewed him as too cautious.
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Celebrating our veterans five years after the end of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
“At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, we will remember them.”
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Confederate and Union: The untold history of gay Civil War soldiers
During the Civil War conventional gender roles and sexual behavior could not be strictly tethered to a heterosexual paradigm.
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Mike Pence’s top seven most homophobic moments (out of many)
Indiana Governor Mike Pence is a darling of the religious right, and with good reason.
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Judge who ruled against ban on gays in military in 1993 dies at age 90
“It is fundamentally unjust to abort a most promising military career solely because of a truthful confession of a sexual preference different from that of the majority,” he wrote in 1993.
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Sailors and marines cast overboard for being LGBTQ urged to appeal
“If you were discharged under ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell,’ come in,” says the top man in the U.S. Navy.