All Blog Posts Tagged 'Queer' (37)

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…

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…

Please go to this…

As Labor Day approaches, DOD FED GLOBE is taking this opportunity to thank all of you

 for your hard work as equality activism volunteers.

Your contributions that are essential to our…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Today our President Obama declared that the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" or "DOMA" is unconstitutional discrimination against legally married same-sex couples, and stated that the Administration will no longer defend the law in Court.  The President also concluded that "classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to a more heightened standard of scrutiny."

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Pentagon Not Tracking LGBT

The Pentagon's spin masters are at it again. In the above link is the latest lie/ distortion an article from "Stripes."

They act like they are doing us a favor by not counting our community. This is more along the lines of re-engineering the DADT mandated closet.

In this article …

The USA military got done within 1 month; conquered Grenada, threw Iraq out of Kuwait, and provided the training on sexual harassment from the tailhook scandal. Knowing how fast the DOD can move this Repeal DADT certification effort should have already been signed, sealed, and delivered.

Most important is desensitivity training and DOD FED GLOBE has provided it for free to the Department of Defense and world.

The DOD is intentionally making repeal sound more…

The LCR lawsuit will stop immediately the illegal unconstitutional mandate that LGB Service Members go into the closet. It is the best solution. It will restore our civil rights of "Freedom of Speech," "Protection from self incrimination," and "Equality clause."

Historically the Department of Defense has an unwritten policy/ rule that excludes LGBT area from its entire diversity program for all employees including the civilians. It has however, spread significant stereotyping and…

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in a Pentagon press conference revealed a three-step plan:

• Finalize changes in related regulations and policies & get clearer definitions on benefits
• Prepare training materials for chaplains, lawyers, commanders and troops
• Begin to train servicemembers worldwide.

“We’re trying to get the first two phases of that process done as quickly as possible,” Gates said,…

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in a Pentagon press conference revealed a three-step plan:

• Finalize changes in related regulations and policies & get clearer definitions on benefits
• Prepare training materials for chaplains, lawyers, commanders and troops
• Begin to train servicemembers worldwide.

“We’re trying to get the first two phases of that process done as quickly as possible,” Gates said,…

During the holiday season there are many programs paid for and supported by the Department of Defense (DOD) that do all they can to provide support for the families of deployed Service Members.

There is one major exclusion the LGBTQ families do not receive same similar support from the…

From the DOD FED GLOBE Board

We want to thank all of the you that: pressured politicians, lobbied, protested, rallied, marched, and shared stories of why it is important to rid this society of Don't Ask Don't Tell Don't Pursue (DADT).

These were acts of true…