Showing posts with label DADT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DADT. Show all posts

Friday, December 23, 2011

ICONIC - NAVY HOMECOMING - LESBIAN COUPLE SHARE A KISS


Perhaps the still from the video below, which has already gone viral, will become the icon of the celebration of the end of 'Don't ask. Don't tell'. From the beginning, when I first heard of the Clinton compromise, I thought it was ridiculous. Hopes were high that Clinton would end the practice of discharging members of the military who had served their country well, if their LGTB sexual orientation became known...but not with the unworkable policy of DADT.




The photo of the lesbian kiss reminded me of the iconic scene below, of the sailor kissing the nurse, photographed by Albert Eisenstaedt in Times Square on V-J Day, marking the end of World War II.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

CALL YOUR SENATOR!

The US Senate is scheduled to vote on ending "Don't ask, don't tell" tonight. Please call your senators and ask them to vote to end DADT. Call even if you think you know they will not vote to end the ridiculous, discriminatory policy, which harms rather than helps the performance of our military.

UPDATE: TPM says no vote tonight. Call your senators anyway. I suppose it's best to wait until their offices open tomorrow.