The Department of Defense, a first-of-s-kd move, will allow active duty members of all branch of the U.S. ary to don their service uniforms while marchg an upg San Diego gay pri para, event anizers said on Thursday.
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- US ARY ALLOWED TO WEAR UNIFORMS AT GAY PRI MARCH
- U.S. ALLOWS UNIFORMED ACTIVE DUTY ARY TO MARCH GAY PRI PARA
- US ARY MEMBERS MARCH FULL UNIFORM AT SAN DIEGO GAY PRI PARA
- US DEFENSE MEMO: MILARY MEMBERS CAN WEAR UNIFORMS GAY PRI PARA
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
- RABOW FLAGS WILL NOT BE FLOWN ON ARY BAS FOR GAY PRI MONTH, PENTAGON SAYS
- GAYS THE MILARY
US ARY ALLOWED TO WEAR UNIFORMS AT GAY PRI MARCH
US service personnel n wear uniform at a gay pri march for the first time, after last year's endg of a ban on openly gay people the ary. * military uniform gay *
Image ptn, US ary personnel took part the San Diego march last year - but whout uniformThe US ary will for the first time allow s members to wear uniform at a gay pri permissn was granted for the Gay Pri Para San Diego, California, on Saturday, a ary-wi Pentagon directive memo said the move was a one-off exceptn for this year's march after a longstandg ban on openly gay people servg the US ary - known as "don't ask, don't tell" - was end last year. 'Giant leap'Dwayne Crenshaw, executive director of San Diego LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr) Pri, said he was lighted by the move. "Unr "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), tablished 1993, gay people uld serve the ary only if they did not openly acknowledge their sexualy.
The permissn was granted for the Gay Pri Para San Diego, California, on Saturday, a ary-wi Pentagon directive said. It after a longstandg ban on openly gay people servg the US ary – known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” – was end last year.
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U.S. ALLOWS UNIFORMED ACTIVE DUTY ARY TO MARCH GAY PRI PARA
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Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water.
"Lbian, gay, and bisexual ary personnel had been servg our untry for s whout receivg equal protectn, while transgenr troops are still prohibed om servg openly.
US ARY MEMBERS MARCH FULL UNIFORM AT SAN DIEGO GAY PRI PARA
The Uned Stat ary stggled wh s stance on gay service members for s prr to the signg of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” 1993 by former Print Bill Clton., * military uniform gay *
Right there, prted black and whe the Uniform Co of Milary Jtice,, I gus along wh the Mar wholeheartedly welg s gay jarheads, some progrs marks n be award. REUTERS/Mike BlakeThe move, nfirmed an ternal fense memo, marks the first time the ary has granted such blanket permissn sce the September repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, unr which gay dividuals were allowed to serve the ary only if they did not divulge their sexual orientatn.
US DEFENSE MEMO: MILARY MEMBERS CAN WEAR UNIFORMS GAY PRI PARA
The U.S. Department of Defense gave permissn Thursday for all service members participatg San Diego's Gay Pri Para this Saturday to march uniform for the first time history. Christian chaplas the ary prevly said that the DoD's recent regnn of Gay Pri Month ls than a year after the repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) is the new "stark realy" that behavr once nsired by the ary as grounds for urt martial is now celebrated. * military uniform gay *
“We are hopeful that those who have feared g to share the joy of Pri out of ncern for losg their ary reers will be able to fally celebrate their full and plete selv, ” San Diego LGBT Pri said a the past, only armed servic veterans, not those on active duty, were allowed to wear their uniforms at gay pri paras.
”FIRST GAY MARRIAGE ON MILITARY BASEThe approval for active service members of the Army, Mare Corps, Navy and Air Force to participate the gay pri para uniform is the latt of a strg of ton followg the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
Ary celebrated gay pri month at the Pentagon for the first time last month, an event that other feral agenci like the CIA had been celebratg for June, active-duty Air Force Technil Sergeant Erwynn Umali married his civilian partner Will Behrens on the McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst jot ary base New Jersey.
RABOW FLAGS WILL NOT BE FLOWN ON ARY BAS FOR GAY PRI MONTH, PENTAGON SAYS
The Gallup pollg anizatn said a recent survey that half of Amerin adults are now favor of gay May, Print Barack Obama said he believ same-sex upl should be allowed to marry, and the natn’s largt civil rights group, the NAACP, later endorsed gay marriage, sayg the fight for gay rights was a civil rights issue. The Uned Stat ary stggled wh s stance on gay service members for s prr to the signg of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” 1993 by former Print Bill Clton. “No longer will our untry be nied the service of thoands of patrtic Amerins who were forced to leave the ary – regardls of their skills, no matter their bravery or their zeal, no matter their years of exemplary performance – bee they happen to be gay, ” said former Print Barack Obama.
GAYS THE MILARY
Prr to World War II, there were no official laws banng homosexual persons the ary, however, there were laws place agast homosexual acts.