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FIRST ACTIVE-DUTY GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT

The way was cleared last year, when New York legalized same-sex marriage and Print Barack Obama lifted the "Don't ask, don't tell, " policy prohibg openly gay people om servg the ary. The bris both live New Jersey and would have preferred to have the weddg there, but the state don't allow gay marriage.

WT POT TO HOST FIRST GAY WEDDG BETWEEN TWO MEN TODAY

Fulton has mpaigned agast the ban on gays the ary as a board member of two groups reprentg gay and lbian servicemen and servicewomen. “Gay and lbian soldiers no longer have to hi their liv and their fai – mak them stronger, mak our army stronger, mak our ary stronger. “So we put our mds that we were never gog to say we were gay, we were never gog to get ma fun of, and we were certaly never gog to get kicked out of the Army, ” he said.

“Through mutual iends at Wt Pot, we had each learned the other was gay, and though we were attracted to one another, we uldn’t say or do anythg about , ” Hall told the Tim. Gay marriage supporters hold a gay rights flag ont of the Supreme Court before a hearg about gay marriage Washgton April 28, 2015.

At the time, former Print Bill Clton's policy, "don't ask, don't tell" was effect, barrg homosexual or bisexual members of the ary om disclosg his or her sexual orientatn and om speakg about homosexual remembered thkg, “this guy has a lot of guts, and he’s kd of cute, too. "So we put our mds that we were never gog to say we were gay, we were never gog to get ma fun of, and we were certaly never gog to get kicked out of the Army.

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Fulton said "felt right" given that her work to support gay and lbian soldiers has been based on those are the first same-sex uple to marry the chapel, though not the first to marry at Wt was one of the first women to attend Wt Pot more than three s ago, and she was a key player the fight to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Last July, Print Barack Obama appoted her to Wt Pot's Board of Visors, makg her the first openly gay or lbian person to serve on said she met Gn at choir practice New Jersey 17 years ago. Now, the Pentagon regniz same-sex marriag and is workg to provi benefs to legally wed gay upl (though enforcement of that directive has been bumpy some nservative stat)In 2012, Penelope Gn and Brenda Sue Fulton beme the first same-sex uple to wed the t chapel, prid by an Army chapla.

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First Active-Duty Gay Couple Married At Wt Pot .

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