Yesterday a document was released that was signed by over one hundred retired generals and admirals calling for repeal of the gay ban.
Richard Grenell | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
Why did you wait for the last 16 days of the general election to speak out if you were truly troubled about "your party's direction"?
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
General Powell, is there is something wrong with a gay kid dreaming he or she could one day be a soldier in the Army of the United States?
Steve Ralls | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
Powell has endorsed a candidate that has consistently said he favors repealing the law. Is he now ready to say the day has arrived when lifting Don't Ask Don't Tell makes good sense?
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
I set out to learn if reason or prejudice was behind the gay ban in the military.
Charlotte Robinson | Posted 10.01.2008 | Home
Below is an interview with Lee Swislow, the executive director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. GLAD, a 30-year-old organization, is probab...
Steve Ralls | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics
The event, outlined in a letter obtained exclusively by PFLAG, is described as "a private, off-the-record briefing" to strategize about how to battle efforts to repeal t "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
Now that the debate is settled, can we get serious? Could we please have a national conversation with substance?
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics
Why are we engaging in these absurd practices when our troops are exhausted, overextended, and deployed again and again after their tours have ended?
Steve Ralls | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
Anyone who read the headlines this week about Senator Barack Obama's support for ending the federal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on lesbian, gay and bi...
Karen Ocamb | Posted 09.03.2008 | Politics
The historic Democratic National Convention is over but one question remains: what the hell happened to the gays?
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics
"Don't Ask Don't Tell" is not an issue of one party versus another. It's a matter of military readiness and what's best for the country.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics
Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics
Eyes west, everybody. That would be Denver, where the Democratic National Convention opens on Monday. The suspense is not over the nominee - Senator O...
Steve Clemons | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Be thankful for radio silence I guess when other candidates for VP like Daschle and Bayh are getting phone calls saying, "Sorry....but we look forward to working with you in many other ways in the coming years."
Steve Ralls | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Right-wing "military" activist Elaine Donnelly, fresh off of her critically disastrous appearance before the House Armed Services Committee, is again ...
Steve Clemons | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
I am one of those who would like to see the best and brightest young people engage in either party, and campaign internships can be great ladders up.
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
Unfortunately, the coterie of cautious centrists being touted by the Obama campaign as short-listers for the vice presidential nod are hardly up to the task of taking on the Republican attack machine.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Todays's society is more honest, more open, more accepting of people's differences -- more tolerant, in a word. With one exception, and that exception is the military.
Steve Ralls | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Retaining good straight troops to the tune of $150,000 with Arabic skills may be an investment worth making, but in the long run, that platoon of lesbians might just turn out to be priceless, too.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
Being gay should be no more of a barrier to serving the United States military than being black now is. My guess is that sixty years from now, people will wonder what took us so long.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
The very same arguments that were made in 1948 against mingling the races in the military were made Wednesday against mixing homosexuals and heterosexuals the way they mix in the real world.
Washington Post | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
Don't ask, don't tell. And, whatever you do, don't ask Elaine Donnelly to tell you what she thinks about gays in the military. The House Armed Servic...
Steve Ralls | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Try as they might, opponents of open service, led by Elaine Donnelly, were unable to crack the Members' belief that the time for change has long since passed.
The Huffington Post | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
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Nathaniel Frank | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics