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President Barack Obama signed the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell today. At the signing ceremony was Colo. Sen. Mark Udall. Udall, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, originally led the charge in ending the military policy that forbid members from serving openly. Udall said in a statement that he will see the [...]

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi thank God — yes, THANKED GOD — for gay and lesbian soldiers. As if she needed one more thing for the religious right to throw at her in 2012? Anyway, with Pelosi’s signature, the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell heads to the White House for President Barack Obama’s [...]

The New York Times is reporting the military ban on gays and lesbians serving openly will likely not pass during the lame duck session. The murky picture on Capitol Hill comes even as Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said for the first time that he would like to see the Senate vote to authorize the repeal [...]

President Barack Obama released a video last night to GLBT youth reporting that it gets better. He made no mention of the discriminatory — bullying — practices of neither Don’t Ask Don’t Tell nor the Defense of Marriage Act. Both policies his justice department are fighting after federal judges declared them unconstitutional because they didn’t [...]