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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Needs to Resonate With Pro Sports -- Now

Four years into the Second World War, Lt. Carlton Skinner, the commander of the U.S. weather ship Sea Cloud in the North Atlantic, sent a memo up the Navy's chain of command. He requested that it allow him to start training black seamen, long relegated to menial tasks, for critical jobs reserved for white sailors. Skinner...

DADT Repeal: What Will -- And Likely Won't -- Happen

WASHINGTON -- Now that President Barack Obama has signed the repeal of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, what happens next? Here is what will -- and what some predict will -- take place as the military lifts the ban on open military service by gays and lesbians. Definitely Will Happen: Nothing immediately....

Crazy Costumes Come Out of the Closet for Gay Pride

(June 28) -- Forget the holiday season; June is the time of year when people don their gayest apparel. Cities around the world celebrated gay pride parades last weekend, allowing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer communities to come together, often in costume. Revelers marched through New York City, San...

Army Secretary Says He's Met With Gay Soldiers

WASHINGTON (March 31) -- Treading into the murky area of the post-"don't ask, don't tell" era, the Army's senior civilian leader told reporters today that he has met with soldiers who revealed that they were gay. Such a declaration, at least in theory, could be grounds for the service members to be discharged from the...

Opinion: New DADT Guidelines Please No One

(March 25) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday announced changes to the Pentagon's regulation on gays serving in the military that he said make the Defense Department's enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy "fairer and more appropriate." But despite Gates' desire to provide "a greater measure of...