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Watercoooler: DADT surveys and DOMA briefs
- SLDN advises gay and lesbian soldiers not to participate in DADT
survey: Last week the Pentagon sent out 400,000 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell surveys to enlisted men and women. While
the Defense
Department maintains it plans to keep all responses confidential,
the Servicemembers
Legal Defense Networkwarns gay troops to tread lightly when filling
out the form (they are due on August 15). “As a legal services group, our focus
is on ensuring adequate legal protections for those gay and lesbian service
members that participate in the surveys,” said Aubrey Sarvis, SLDN’s executive
director. “We continue to have discussions with DOD and are working to make sure
gay and lesbian service members are protected. At this time, our warning stands
that gay and lesbian service members should not take the survey unless adequate
legal protections are put in place.” When it comes DADT matters, SLDN is on
target. Pay attention to them soldiers. Oh, and by the way? The survey questions are ridiculous!
- Spain wins the World Cup. Congrats to Spain for its victory (unfortunately it
was marred by terror attacks in Uganda).
With the tournament over, American conservatives can stop whining and now enjoy
their manly, non-socialistic, sports in peace.
- White House to introduce national AIDS strategy. On Tuesday
the Obama administration will present its national
AIDS/HIV strategy. Considering how AIDS advocates are taking the
White House to task, this new policy will do one of two things: a) quiet his
critics, b) show that when the topic is gay this White House is utterly tone
deaf.
- Manhattan Borough President will get married in the Nutmeg
State. Scott
Stinger, a “New Yorka” through and through, plans to marry fiancée
Elyse Buxbaum in Connecticut later this year. Why? As a protest for the lack of
marriage rights in the Empire State. “If enough people who have somewhat of a
profile — not just politicians, but artists and business leaders — start going
into Massachusetts or Connecticut and show New York how embarrassing it is that
you can’t get a marriage license for same-sex couples, then we will change
things.”
- Whose that girl? Rachel
Maddow had an old school look back in the day. Bet she broke many
young hearts!
- Suspect arrested in year old murder. Paulina
Ibarra, a transgendered woman, was murdered in her Hollywood home
in August 2009. Last week the police arrested Jesus Catalan as a suspect. The
case is being investigated as a hate crime.
- What will Obama do with DOMA? TheAtlantic’s
Marc AmbinderDOMA decision. Makes sense. No matter what path he takes, Obama will be slammed. He
can only win with gay marriage advocates by opposing DOMA. That is never going
to happen. As for the other side, it’s convinced he is a same-sex marriage
advocate. You know it’s bad when Brian
Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, charged
the Justice Department with “deliberately sabotag[ing] this case.” Drama
queen. says the Justice Department is going to take its
sweet time trying to decide how to handle last week’s
- Heat wave. Last week the East Coast was
hit with crazy heat. The best way to survive high temps is to ogle at shirtless
men.
