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US Appeals DADT Ruling, While Obama Says Being Gay Not a Choice

(Oct. 14) -- Is it a case of cognitive dissonance? Two developments today have many people wondering where, exactly, the Obama administration really stands on the matter of gay rights. First, the U.S. Department of Justice asked federal Judge Virginia Phillips to let the military ignore her ruling suspending the...

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Hits Lesbians Hardest

WASHINGTON (Aug. 16) -- The military is throwing out women disproportionately under its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, even as the number of service members discharged for being gay reached a new low last year. According to Pentagon statistics released by the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara,...