All Blog Posts Tagged 'DOD' (53)

Time to get organized and begin requesting, meeting, and organizing your local organization and or base's June LGBT Pride in-house.

For many years we have been told "No because LGBT people are not considered members of a special emphasis group." According to the OSD (Office of the Secretary of Defense) Diversity lead with discussions between OSD, OPM (Office of Personnel Management), and DOD FED GLOBE we do NOT have to be "Special Emphasis" to have these events.

Please…

Hi my name is Thomas and my husband is Marko and we are married. We live in Germany. Both of us were civil servant employees of the US Department of Defense (DOD) in Germany. I am an US military veteran and Marko is a German national. We've been together for 11 years and plan to be together for the rest of our lives.

While working at the commissary this is a very large military grocery store at Vilseck Post I had a low level job, but was very happy. My supervisor then split…

NY Times Article - President Obama Says Same Sex Marriage Should Be Legal

Many of us had hoped for this speech in May 2008 when the very popular Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama was campaigning.

That did not happen, but the…

The LGBT 501C3 nonprofit DOD FED GLOBE is looking for volunteers

to tell their stories of harassment as past and or present employees

of the Department of Defense.

This includes service members, civil servants, and contractors.



The name…

This community is significantly larger than the 4% recorded by the census.

The census barely counts any of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) USA population.

We make a huge political difference in elections and fund raising  for both major parties.

All we ask is respect both us and our families.…

On Veterans Day, it’s a time to give thanks especially to those veterans that are ignored due to discrimination.

Since our community is often under counted it is a conservative estimate that at least 10-20% or 2.3 - 4.6 million veterans are Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) people. All have served this nation well and have received little to no credit for their vast contributions to national value.

We are eternally grateful for their service to our country…

Please go to this…

The oppression of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) is uncommon.

This is because unlike other oppressed groups we are taught in childhood by those that have the greatest influence…

The oppression of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) is uncommon.

This is because unlike other oppressed groups we are taught in childhood by those that have the greatest influence…

Yes once again in the USA people are competing for the job of President. What does this event mean to pro Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) equality activists? This is when our community becomes the target for discriminatory dogmatic diatribe.

Politicians in the USA are not elected to provide religious leadership. In this country we have in the first amendment “…separation between religion and matters of the…

The below message is from Dan Choi.

Its important to not only sign this, but ask others to as well.

DADT victims get a double whammy.

Not only are their lives and careers severely negatively impacted by being fired for being LGBT, but Uncle Sam afterwards demands they give money back for not fulfilling their service time in the…

Respect for Marriage Act is now being supported by the White House.

We welcome this change, but it is not enough of an effort.

It is now time for our…

Once again we the LGBT employees of the Department of Defense (DOD) have been betrayed by both our DOD senior leadership and the Commander and Chief. Its not because any of these people are intentionally mean, but it is because they lack the spine to do what they know are the right things. 

As an important example: the LGBT community was told that the President was going to share the same benefits that Department of State Clinton is sharing for gay couples within her purview…

We've seen it all, but we sincerely hoped that we would not see this President an expert in constitutional law have his Department of Justice (DOJ) for a second time request an "Emergency Stay" on the

Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) injunction.

Please say it isn't so.

Tell us this is a bad dream and that our President is not…

In 1996 then candidate Obama did fill out a form that showed he supported same-gender marriage. Now President Obama appears to be playing politics with our equality, because he mixes religion with matters of the State. While claiming he has not yet evolved to accept marriage equality due to religion.

While Governor Cuomo of NY proactively pursued marriage equality in his state. He successfully worked with both major parties to…

1.       When there was testimony on the hill by Pentagon leadership it was stated that LGBT (they call all of use the H word) is only 2 – 3%. This is inaccurate. The 2000 USA census barely counted any of us and claimed we were 4% of the…

DOD FED GLOBE completely supports the LCR appeal to end the US ban on openly LGB soldiers immediately. LCR filed their brief in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco yesterday. We concur and commend this action!



LCR is absolutely right that it is unconstitutional for Congress to allow the military to keep the ban while it trains troops to deal with the change after lawmakers have…

13 Activists from GetEQUAL were in court Friday.

They were in court for doing what other oppressed people have also done in the past when desperate;

a peaceful tactic civil disobediance.

Had these brave 13 people not done this then rest assured the DADT…

As repeal of the dreaded Don't Ask Don't Tell Don't Pursue (DADT) gets closer to reality so too are new tricks to force Lesbian Gay Bisexual (LGB) service members out:

"An attorney says the Navy is inventing grounds to fire…