The loss of talent to the military, and the country, is staggering -- language specialists, helicopter pilots, doctors, intelligence officers -- all dismissed because they happen to be gay.
New York Times | Thom Shanker | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics
The Army and Air Force discharged a disproportionate number of women in 2007 under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prohibits openly gay peopl...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.14.2008 | Home
This weekend McCain tried to project a moderate image but wound up doing the opposite, extolling military diplomacy, supporting Bush court appointments, and assailing reproductive and gay rights.
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Nunn's call for reconsideration of the gay ban is a welcome development, but his proposal for a Pentagon study is behind the curve, especially given the military's history of burying studies.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
We do not need another Pentagon "study." We need men and women at the top to lead us to what is clearly right and explain to their constituents why Don't Ask Don't Tell must go.
Steve Clemons | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Sen. Nunn is recommending a "review" of the policy he helped fashion fifteen years ago, but he is not indicating whether his own views have changed.
Ryan Rivera | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home
With a new poll finding 63 percent of Americans see gay marriage as a "strictly private" decision out of bounds for government regulation, John McCain's recently reiterated position that marriage should be between one man and one woman puts him in the minority.
Allison Herwitt | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics
John McCain is anti-gay and despite his pretenses toward moderation and tolerance, he is just as dangerous for gays as George W. Bush.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
A small group of Americans, both gay and straight, are fighting and dying in this war, and they are feeling its consequences. The rest of us are changing the channel.
Bruce Gilardi | Posted 05.26.2008 | Living
One simply can't overemphasize how momentous last week's California Supreme Court's decision to legalized marriage between same sex couples will be. ...
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
The military can ill afford to lose a single man or woman. Nonetheless, the law -- a law passed by Congress -- requires that if that man or woman is openly gay, he or she must be discharged.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
At a time when the military is fighting two wars simultaneously and recruiting standards are being lowered, why is Congress still not allowing gay military personnel to serve openly?
Think Progress | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
For quite some time, U.S. troops have supported repealing the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) policy. A December 2006 poll of servicemembers...
Andy Towle | Posted 04.28.2008 | Entertainment
Carrier, began airing last night and continues on through Thursday on PBS, is a character-driven total immersion in the high-stakes world of a nuclear air craft carrier.
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
Since the campaigns of both Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama have seemingly taken my advice earlier this week, and are both concentrat...
Washington Blade | CHRIS JOHNSON | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
A Wikipedia article about Maj. Alan Rogers, a gay soldier who was killed in January in Iraq, was apparently edited by someone in the Pentagon, who rem...
John Eskow | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
The saddest part of what Bill Clinton is doing is that he's driving home the point, once and for all, that whatever grandeur we saw in him was a sham right from the start.
Beth Arnold | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
Why don't the Clintons want to be transparent about their money trail? Hillary is panting for presidential power. She can just taste it. Why not be -- startling, now, for a Clinton -- open?
August J. Pollak | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
Bruce Kluger | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics
In the 15 years since Bill Clinton approved the provocative "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" plan, the social stigma often tagged to homosexuality has, in many cases, dropped away like molting feathers.
Sara Whitman | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
LGBT voters across the country are asking, why won't Clinton or Obama just say they support our rights, clearly, without hesitation, without disclaimers?
CBS News | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics
A gay soldier says he disclosed his sexuality to his superiors, even offering graphic proof, and was neither discharged nor reprimanded, despite the m...
Ari Melber | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
Republican pandering to anti-gay sentiment could endanger our national security and allow the preventable injury or death of American citizens.
Media Matters | Posted 12.05.2007 | Media
On the December 3 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage called retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr (CSMR) a "gay, phony general." ...
ABC News | Sarah Ulrey | Posted 12.02.2007 | Home
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Steve Ralls | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics