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Air Force General Counsel Gordon O. Tanner discsed the Defense Department’s Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri Month observance a recent terview, emphasizg the importance of regnizg diversy wh the partment.,

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    The Defense Department is observg June as LGBT Pri Month to regnize DoD's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr service members and civilians., * dod lgbt pride month 2017 *

    The Defense Department is observg June as LGBT Pri Month to regnize DoD's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr service members and civilians. Navy, Milk beme a civil rights pneer and activist and 1977, beme one of the first openly gay elected officials the U. Anthony Lover had been an Air Force staff sergeant for seven years when he was discharged unr the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy after tellg his manr that he was gay 2008.

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    In May 2012, he reentered the Air Force as a staff sergeant, beg the send person and first gay Airman to return to active duty sce DADT was repealed. Army Map Service and banned om feral employment 1957 bee he was gay.

    The Defense Department is observg June as LGBT Pri Month to regnize DoD's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr service members and civilians. DoD graphic * dod lgbt pride month 2017 *

    He beme the central figure nontg the ernment's polici agast the employment of gays and lbians, particularly posns lked to natnal secury.

    His llectn of thoands of pag of letters, ernment rrponnce, ttimony, photographs, and other memorabilia is perhaps the most plete rerd of the gay-rights movement Ameri. New York's gay muny had spected the police were targetg gay clubs for a while, and broke out to a vlent rt when the police began arrtg employe as well as patrons. Through her promotn, she beme the first gay general the U.

    The directive stated that applints would "not be asked or required to reveal whether they are homosexual, " but still forba applints om engagg homosexual acts or makg a statement that they were homosexual. Senate nfirmed Eric Fanng as Secretary of the Army 2016, he beme the first openly gay person to lead a ary service. In 1966, gay rights activists held a "sip-" at the Juli Bar Greenwich Village.

    The Defense Department is observg June as LGBT Pri Month to regnize DoD's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr service members and civilians. DoD graphic * dod lgbt pride month 2017 *

    The New York Liquor Authory prohibed servg gay patrons, claimg that homosexuals were disorrly. The activists announced their homosexualy and were refed service. No laws were overturned, but the New York Cy Commissn on Human Rights clared that homosexuals have the right to be served alhol.

    Cy to extend domtic partnership benefs to lbian and gay employe.

    The Navy jos the natn regnizg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Pri Month throughout June., * dod lgbt pride month 2017 *

    In 1975, Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich was discharged om the service after he appeared uniform on the ver of Time magaze along wh the headle "I am a Homosexual. Bayard Rt was an openly gay civil rights activist, social reformer, pacifist, AIDS activist, and thor.

    In 1993, the March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberatn drew an timated 300, 000 to 1.

    Print Tmp has not yet issued a proclamatn for Gay Pri Month, but the U.S. Armed Forc are planng celebratns worldwi and will ntue the tradn of holdg a special event at the Pentagon urtyard on June 12. * dod lgbt pride month 2017 *

    The support of such fluential civil rights anizatns strengthened the movement for Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual rights legislatn. This was the first statewi gay civil rights legislatn Ameri. On November 11, 1950, the Mattache Society, the first natnal gay rights anizatn the U.

    The society sought to change the way homosexualy was viewed by the Amerin public, to tegrate homosexual people to mastream society, and to "elimate discrimatn, risn, prejudice and bigotry. C., by the East Coast Homophile Organizatns, to prott U. Ernment discrimatn agast lbians and gay men.

    Print Tmp has not yet issued a proclamatn for Gay Pri Month, but the U.S. Armed Forc are planng celebratns worldwi and will ntue the tradn of holdg a special event at the Pentagon urtyard on June 12. * dod lgbt pride month 2017 *

    Gay and lbian people picketed outsi feral offic what is believed to be the first public protts by gay people the natn’s pal. Gay muny center San Francis 1966. The olst llegiate stunt anizatn for gays, the Stunt Homophile League, was found 1966 at Columbia Universy.

    In January of 1974, Kathy Kozachenko beme the first openly gay Amerin elected to public office when she won a seat on the Ann Arbor, Michigan, Cy Council.

    "In 1987, more than 70 lbian and gay Lata/o activists reprentg 13 stat and 33 ci participated the send natnal March on Washgton. They met and cid to create a natnal work, Natnal Lato/a Lbian and Gay Activists (NLLGA). Print Barack Obama clared June as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri Month, and the Defense Department is highlightg the importance of learship as celebrat the achievements and sacrific of LGB service members and LGBT civilians.

    The Navy jos the natn regnizg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Pri Month throughout June., * dod lgbt pride month 2017 *

    “I’ve had the chance to see LGBT members, both civilian and ary members, serve when there was a ban on openly gay service, then durg the perd of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ’ and [now] openly, ” he said. “Sergeant Matlovich was the first to fight the ban on gays servg the ary, ” Tanner explaed. Though Matlovich was discharged 1975 bee he was gay and received a general discharge, he ntued to fight for equaly the servic until he died 1988, Tanner said.

    Tribute was first celebrated 1994 and memorat the anniversary of the June 28, 1969, Stonewall rt New York Cy, that iated the morn gay rights movement the Uned has the Army done? 8387 for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month.

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