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Recruiting Gays

18Oct07

Oops: The Army, Navy and Air Force unwittingly advertised for recruits on a website for gays, who are barred from military service if they are open about their sexual orientation. When informed Tuesday by USA TODAY that they were advertising on GLEE.com, a networking website for gay professionals, recruiters expressed surprise and said they would [...]

Just pilfering stuff all damn day: Quentin’s Monologue from ‘Sleep With Me’ Originally written by Roger Avary What’s a film about, what’s it really about? What genre does it take?[Duane: What, like the spine? Like one sentence?]No, I don’t, fucking boy meets girl, I don’t give a shit about that. Fuck boy meets girl, fuck [...]

Two great ads have appeared in recent weeks pointing out the harm caused to our country and our fellow citizens by continuing to follow the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue” policy and the failure of our government to yet provide hate-crimes protection to the GLBT community, respectively. [Hotel Tango: Sam Smoot]

In a Wall Street Journal column (sub. req’d., of course) today, former Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Barr came out (no pun intended) in support of allowing gays and lesbians to serve in the U.S. military. In fact, he writes that supporting “opening” the services to homosexuals is a conservative act. As a conservative Republican [...]

War Is Boring reports that with the fall of the Taliban, who — surprise! — executed gays, in Afghanistan, the gay community has exploded (if not in numbers then at least in visibility). In fact, the Afghani equivalent of gay marriage is also occurring. . . . [N]ow the Taliban are gone and the Afghan [...]


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