Tag "dont-ask-dont-tell"

Cataloging the bravery and activism of LGBTQI service members one story at a time.

David, Among Dreams
November 14, 2013

David

SECOND LIEUTENANT, U.S. ARMY, 2004-PRESENT   DAVID ON THE NEW FREE GAY AND LESBIAN GENERATION OF CADETS:   I think I’ve always known I was gay. I grew up in a very Catholic family here in the states, in South Florida.  Our church was located right in the middle of Wilton Manner.  So I was…

Julie 'Janine' Davidson, Among Dreams
November 6, 2013

Julie ‘Janine’ Davidson

AIR FORCE VETERAN   JANINE ON MOVING TO HER FIRST POST IN LOUISIANA WITH HER THEN-PARTNER, FRESH POST THE DADT REPEAL:   When I was in my senior year of high school I was realizing I was gay and I had thought that you can’t tell anybody, nobody that I know can ever know about this. So…