The Eclectique Citizen
The President’s Weekly

Saturday, 23 May 2009, 18:49 | Category : Barack Obama, Eclectique Citizen, LGBTQ, military, Television
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Last week, at the end of our Q&A for the Community Cinema screening of ASK NOT (a documentary by Johnny Symons that explores the effects of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy from 1993 to the present), I asked all the people in the room who’ve served in the U.S. military to stand so [...]

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Ask! Why do we still have the DADT policy?

Friday, 8 May 2009, 13:23 | Category : Barack Obama, Culture, LGBTQ, military, People, Politics, Television, The Media, TV News
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I’m looking forward to meeting Alex Nicholson next weekend. So far we’ve only conversed by email. Alex knows five languages. [I'm jealous.] And he is an Arabic linguist. Alex served in the U.S. Army during the height of 9-11 and its fall out wars in Iraq and Afgahanistan. But Alex was discharged in 2006 because…he [...]

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