“The Pentagon Is With Us”

Gates will make a major announcement Tuesday on ending discrimination and persecution of gay and lesbian servicemembers. I'm sorry if I cannot yet believe it. I've been fighting for this for 22 years and have seen it slip away so often. I watched the SOTU last night with Aaron and a good friend who's a former Green Beret; my first boyfriend was in the airforce. I've met and known so many fine men and women in the US military who are gay and as patriotic and as dedicated as anyone else. To have this hideous bigoted taint removed from their service is both long overdue and yet also overwhelming.