Word: gays
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...graduating members of Harvard’s Reserve Officer Training Corps in Tercentenary Theatre, and her pledge to use the speech to criticize the miltary’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which bars openly gay individual from serving in the armed forces, has already drawn fire from conservative and pro-military groups across the country...
...opposition to the military’s presence on campus remained strong, largely due to the Pentagon’s discriminatory position on gay servicemembers...
...Before 1993, gay and lesbian individuals were not permitted to serve in the military, while under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that was enacted that year (and is still in place today) gay soldiers can participate in military service as long as they are not open...
...While Representative Barney Frank ’62, a Democrat from Newton, Mass. who is one of the nation’s most prominent openly-gay politicians, pushed through a revision to the Solomon Amendment in 1999 that exempted financial aid funding from the monies that the government could deny, Congress strengthened the law again in 2002 by decreeing that the entire university could lose its federal funds if one of its constituent schools did not comply with the amendment’s requirements...
...walk me down the aisle?' ELLEN DEGENERES, talk-show host, to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, after he told her that while he opposes gay marriage, he wishes her every happiness. DeGeneres and partner Portia de Rossi plan to wed after California's gay-marriage ban lapses on June...