It starts with words: Censoring books in schools is the new book burnings
Opinion: While you don’t see many literal book burnings anymore, censorship is still occuring in the U.S., argues Lambda Legal's Kevin Jennings.
APRIL 22, 2025
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Naval Academy Will Bar Trans Students Starting in 2020
As Donald Trump's trans military ban goes into effect, the nation's service academies are putting up bars too.
APRIL 17, 2019
West Point Grads Come Out, Form Support Group
Thirty-Eight graduates of the U.S. Military at West Point came out with the announcement that they are forming a support group with an offer to help their alma mater educate future Army leaders on the need to accept and honor the sacrifices of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender troops.
MARCH 17, 2009
Carter calls for end to 'don't ask, don't tell'
In a statement to Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, former president Jimmy Carter has called on Congress to revisit the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gays and lesbians in the military.
MAY 16, 2007
Ex-marine who allegedly tore down tattoo shop's Pride flag charged with hate crime
Benjamin Michael, 44, was seen walking by the Dapper Dog Tattoo Shop in Annapolis when he stopped and tore down a Pride flag the business had displayed by its door, according to authorities.
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
U.S. Naval Academy Hosts First Same-Sex Wedding
The military school marked an historic moment last weekend, hosting the nuptials of graduate David Bucher and his partner Bruce Moats.
MAY 12, 2014
First Openly Gay Cadets Graduate from Air Force Academy
President Obama addressed the first Air Force Academy class to include openly gay cadets on Wednesday.
MAY 24, 2012
Twenty-one arrested at last stop on Equality Ride
Twenty-one gay rights activists--participants in the cross-country Equality Ride--were arrested Wednesday on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., after staging a protest against the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't ask" policy regarding gay service members.
APRIL 26, 2006
Two military members denied promotions for having HIV just won their lawsuit
The settlement will see that the two are commissioned as officers "in recognition of the status and military careers they qualified for and earned years ago."
APRIL 9, 2024
Q&A: Tommie Watkins
The Reverend Tommie Watkins knows discrimination. After the aspiring pilot was pressured to quit the U.S. Naval Academy in 1997 for being gay, he was refused ordination as a deacon by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2000. Now at age 31 the Miami Beach, Fla., resident heads the Watkins Group LLC, which helps faith- and community-based organizations reach out to men of color. And he has published Living Out Loud, a book about overcoming homophobia in and out of the black community.
APRIL 24, 2006
LGBT activists challenge 'don't ask, don't tell' policy at West Point
The U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., planned to deny entry Wednesday to a busload of gay rights activists as they completed their cross-country tour of 20 conservative Christian and military colleges with a challenge to the "don't ask, don't tell" military policy they say keeps gay cadets closeted.
APRIL 26, 2006