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Date. February 28, 1994 – September 20, 2011. Executed by. Les Aspin. Outcome. Barring of openly gay, bisexual, and lesbian persons from the United States Armed Forces. " Don't ask, don't tell " (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service of non-heterosexual people. Instituted during the Clinton administration, the policy ...
The United States military formerly excluded gay men, bisexuals, and lesbians from service. In 1993, the United States Congress passed, and President Bill Clinton signed, a law instituting the policy commonly referred to as "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), which allowed gay, lesbian, and bisexual people to serve as long as they did not reveal their sexual orientation.
The "Don't ask, don't tell" policy was repealed in September 2011, allowing homosexuals and bisexuals to serve openly in the armed forces. [5] Marriage and partner benefits remained in question until after the Supreme Court ruled in United States v.
The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 (H.R. 2965, S. 4023) is a landmark United States federal statute enacted in December 2010 that established a process for ending the "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy (10 U.S.C. § 654), thus allowing gay, lesbian, and bisexual people to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces.
ArmyLGBT.org.uk: Website of the British Army's LGBT Employee Network; Defence Gay and Lesbian Information Service - Australia; Modern Military Association of America, US Site for serving LGBTQ soldiers; Human Rights Watch report: Uniform Discrimination The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy of the U.S. Military Archived 2022-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
Citizenship. Norway and U.S. Alma mater. University of Maryland, Baltimore (BS) University of Washington (MS, PhD) Known for. LGBT rights activism. Margarethe "Grethe" Cammermeyer (born March 24, 1942) is a Norwegian-American former military officer. She served as a colonel in the Washington National Guard and became a gay rights activist.
On July 6, 1999, Barry Winchell, a 21-year-old infantry soldier in the United States Army, was murdered while he slept outside of his barracks by fellow soldier Calvin Glover for dating a transgender woman, Calpernia Addams, after a physical altercation between the two. The murder became a point of reference in the ongoing debate about the ...
Dan Choi (born February 22, 1981) [2] is an American former infantry officer in the United States Army who served in combat in the Iraq War during 2006–2007. [3] He became an LGBT rights activist following his coming out on The Rachel Maddow Show in March 2009 and publicly challenged America's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, which forbade lesbian, gay and bisexual service members from serving ...