RepealNOW

In June 2008 I returned from Iraq and was single, didn’t have any friends in Washington, and was still very concerned about my being outed. I am not quite sure what exactly I reintegrated into last time as I was creating an environment to surround myself from scratch. This return home has proven quite different, and what has seemed to be much more complicated.

I am not sure why, but I have been having issues sliding back into my old self, and it sucks. Being gay, I have always felt more comfortable when I am not around my co-workers, because I am able to be myself. However, lately it is opposite, and I feel more comfortable at work. It doesn’t help that I try and play therapist with myself and can never get a clear thought through my head. I feel it is the fact that for the past year… Read the rest…

This is Sarah Burford a lesbian comedian and this video was done by DOD Fed Globe. Her story is sick. However it is very familiar. So many times, we are sought out and pursued without providing any better a reason than pure stereotype.

With the Pentagon’s family survey now in the field, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a national, legal services and policy organization dedicated to ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), will release a letter each day this week from family members and spouses of former service members impacted by DADT. As the Pentagon reaches out to 150,000 straight couples on how their lives are impacted, these letters will share the perspective of those forced to serve under this law alongside their loved ones. SLDN is urging supporters of repeal to call, write, and schedule in-district meetings with both their senators as the defense budget, which contains the repeal amendment, moves to the floor just weeks from now. www.sldn.org/action.

Dear Mr. Johnson and General Ham:

I am a heavy machinery truck driver; I have been all of my life.  A blue collar American who raised my son, Joseph Rocha, in a Roman… Read the rest…

With the Pentagon’s family survey now in the field, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a national, legal services and policy organization dedicated to ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), will release a letter each day this week from family members and spouses of former service members impacted by DADT. As the Pentagon reaches out to 150,000 straight couples on how their lives are impacted, these letters will share the perspective of those forced to serve under this law alongside their loved ones. SLDN is urging supporters of repeal to call, write, and schedule in-district meetings with both their senators as the defense budget, which contains the repeal amendment, moves to the floor just weeks from now. www.sldn.org/action.

Dear General Ham and Mr. Johnson:

I am a retired military sailor, living with a wonderful person who was fired because of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT).

Because of my experience with the… Read the rest…

With the Pentagon’s family survey now in the field, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a national, legal services and policy organization dedicated to ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), will release a letter each day this week from family members and spouses of former service members impacted by DADT. As the Pentagon reaches out to 150,000 straight couples on how their lives are impacted, these letters will share the perspective of those forced to serve under this law alongside their loved ones. SLDN is urging supporters of repeal to call, write, and schedule in-district meetings with both their senators as the defense budget, which contains the repeal amendment, moves to the floor just weeks from now. www.sldn.org/action.

Dear General Ham and Mr. Johnson:

My name is Nancy Manzella and I have been a mother for 34 years.  My husband and I live in rural Western New York where we have… Read the rest…

After a second year in the wonderful place that is Iraq, I have finally returned home to my loved ones. It was a long journey home, and as far as RepealNOW is concerned a silent one. However, I have finally returned.

Over the past year I have grown as an advocate, and as a person in general. Maybe it was the spare time I found myself with in the bland pits of nothingness that is Baghdad, and if so I am grateful. I have found new outlets of activism. Over the coming months it is going to be imperative that we, as a community, come together and irritate the hell out of our lawmakers on the issues we seek change in.

For me, I face the possibility of an ultra-conservative taking the slot of my Senator in my home state. It is going to be my priority to see that… Read the rest…

With the Pentagon’s family survey now in the field, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a national, legal services and policy organization dedicated to ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), will release a letter each day this week from family members and spouses of former service members impacted by DADT. As the Pentagon reaches out to 150,000 straight couples on how their lives are impacted, these letters will share the perspective of those forced to serve under this law alongside their loved ones. SLDN is urging supporters of repeal to call, write, and schedule in-district meetings with both their senators as the defense budget, which contains the repeal amendment, moves to the floor just weeks from now. www.sldn.org/action.

Dear General Ham and Mr. Johnson:

In 1990 – while working as a reference librarian at the Library of Congress — I met Joan Darrah, an active duty Naval Officer.  I already knew… Read the rest…