DOD FED GLOBE's Blog – July 2011 Archive (5)

Dan Choi Needs Folks To Sign This Petition

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…

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Added by DOD FED GLOBE on July 26, 2011 at 9:23pm — No Comments

Step Up to The Plate

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…

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Added by DOD FED GLOBE on July 19, 2011 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

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…

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Added by DOD FED GLOBE on July 18, 2011 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

Equality Isn't An Emergency Stay on the DADT Injunction

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…

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Added by DOD FED GLOBE on July 14, 2011 at 6:48pm — 2 Comments

Sharing News From OutServe - President Obama Appoints Sue Fulton, West Point ’80, to Board

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact -- Sue Fulton, 908-256-6727, sue.fulton@outserve.org

FIRST OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF WEST POINT BOARD OF VISITORS

President Obama Appoints Sue Fulton, West Point ’80, to Board

WASHINGTON, DC, July 5, 2011 – Sue Fulton, a founding Board Member of OutServe, the association of actively serving LGBT military personnel, was appointed today to the U.S. Military Academy Board of Visitors. Fulton, who graduated in 1980 with the first… Continue

Added by DOD FED GLOBE on July 5, 2011 at 4:06pm — No Comments