America’s gay and lesbian military personnel are today celebrating the over-turning of ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ (DADT), which banned homosexuals serving in the armed forces for the past 17 years.
In a surprising 65-31 vote at the weekend, the U.S Senate repealed the law, which introduced by Bill Clinton in 1993 as a semi-compromise to allow gay soldiers to serve in a military as long as their sexuality remained ‘undisclosed’.
President Obama wrote on Twitter: "By ending 'don't ask, don't tell', no longer will patriotic Americans be asked to live a lie in order to serve the country they love."
Serving gay soldiers were at risk of being outed by comrades, senior officers, spurned lovers, or accidentely on social networking sites and so far more than 13,000 have been dismissed since 1993.
Thankfully, gay soldiers who were forced out of the military will be now allowed to re-enlist.
(c) GCN
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