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Harvard, Navy to Sign Agreement on ROTC Return

BOSTON - The Reserve Officer Training Corps' four-decade exile from Harvard University campus ends Friday with an agreement that was spurred by a congressional vote allowing gays to serve openly in the military. Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus are scheduled to sign an agreement Friday that...

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....

End of Military Gay Ban Is Pivotal Moment in History

WASHINGTON (Dec. 18) -- The Senate's 65-31 vote to end the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military was more than historic. It was a long time coming. But for the men and women whose lives and careers were touched for so many years by the ban, it was mostly personal. For Grethe Cammermeyer, the Vietnam...

Senate to Decide Fate of DREAM Act, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Today

After months of fits and starts, the Senate will vote Saturday on two controversial measures for the last time in the 111th Congress -- the DREAM Act and a bill repealing "Don't ask, Don't tell," the ban against gays serving openly in the military.

Joint Chiefs Split on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal

(Dec. 3) - As expected, the Marine Corps commandant, Gen. James Amos, recommended against repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces.

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10/14/11 Gay military personnel ready for 1st convention Source: Marin Independent Journal - Novato CA SAN FRANCISCOâThe nation's only professional group for active-duty gay military personnel is holding its first conference in Las Vegas this weekend, an event only made possible by the recent lifting of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prohibited gay and lesbian troops from serving openly in the armed forces.
10/11/11 Coulter: Chris Wallace should be âpunched' for... Source: The Raw Story Conservative columnist Ann Coulter is so upset at Fox News host Chris Wallace for asking Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum about gays in the military that she is advocating violence.