Targeting on Don't Tell, Don't Ask

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ON TO JOE AND SOME

There's a storm brewing in the news and in the U.S. military. It's the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." You know sports and the military are very similar to each other, both are setup that hetereosexual masculinity that people just assume that everyone within appears to be straight and peachy. Marines, for instance, can be the ultimate icon for masculinity in our U.S. culture, that one usually assumes the man or woman underneath the uniform of the hetero majority, but there those that are not. These are the proud, the few, the courageous, the sexual minorities of gay, lesbians, and bi-sexuals that serve within our Armed Forces. And yet, a policy that prevents these sexual minorities from serving openly, the "Don't Ask, Don't" policy, has treated them as second class citizens in striping them of their military careers when found out, costing our country millions of dollars (really), and doing more damage to our military in taking people out (don't we have a military stretched far enough that we need not lose people?). Well, I ran into a blog that gave me the latest updates on the subject of our DADT policy from the blog Joe.My.God. This blogger keeps up with the latest politics and news surrounding the DADT policy. His blog was given a Weblog Award for the best LGBT blog in 2007. This subject is already in the news. Another get source of about the coverage of the DADT policy is from Service Legal Defense Network's blog, the Frontlines. I highly recommend you check these out if you are ever interested in your LGBT brothers and sisters serving in the Armed Forces.