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Smooth transition, unfinished business mark first anniversary of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" repeal

LGBTQ Nation Staff Reports
September 20th, 2012

WASHINGTON — Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and OutServe, the association of actively serving LGBT military personnel, on Thursday applauded and celebrated the one-year anniversary of repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” praising the smooth transition the military has made in allowing gay, lesbian, and bisexual Americans to serve openly in the military, and called on the White House, Pentagon, and Congress to embrace and advance the final work necessary to achieve full LGBT equality in the Armed Forces.

BREAKING NEWS: OutServe, SLDN military gay-rights groups are merging | VIDEO

SDGLN Staff
July 2nd, 2012

WASHINGTON -- Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and OutServe, two military gay-rights groups that were formed to fight the Pentagon's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, said today that they plan to merge.

SLDN and OutServe made the announcement via a video posted on YouTube by Aubrey Sarvis of SLDN and Josh Seefried of OutServe.

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VIDEOS: DADT is repealed! New era dawns in march toward full equality

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
September 20th, 2011

SAN DIEGO – As the clock struck midnight on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, tens of thousands of gay and lesbian troops around the nation and the world celebrated the official repeal of the U.S. military’s discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and the dawn of open service.

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Counting down the end of DADT! Open service begins at midnight!

SDGLN Staff
September 19th, 2011

SAN DIEGO -- The clock is ticking down to the repeal of the U.S. military’s discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy,” which takes effect at midnight tonight (Tuesday, Sept. 20).

Advocates of open service as well as the Pentagon are expecting the policy change will have little impact on the military, which has undergone extensive training on what to expect when gay and lesbian troops will be able to serve their country without hiding in the closet. The U.S. becomes the 30th country to allow open service, joining the likes of Canada, Germany, Israel and the United Kingdom.

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