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Overcoming DADT, by AVER President Danny Ingram

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
In the spring of 1994 I became one of the first service members to be discharged from the military under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" following a statement I made in support of presidential candidate Bill Clinton's promise to lift the ban in 1992.  I remember being called into the office my commander in 1993.  There were three of us in the office, the commander, who
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Holding My Head Up High, by Chris S.

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
I'm so thrilled my best friend Deena and I got to pose for the NOH 8 Campaign!  It means so much to me as an openly gay man to spread the message of tolerance in my community.  It's important to me because no one person is better than any other individual, and as a gay man I only ask for the same rights and privileges given to anyone else.  I hold my head up high when I walk
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Redefining Rebbetzin, by Richard A. Walter-Jernigan

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
My husband and I posed for our NOH 8 photo at NC Pride in Durham, NC on September 24, 2011. As a rabbi and rebbetzin for the LGBTQIA community and others who feel displaced and run off by many Jewish congregations, we wanted to have a way to let our LGBTQIA youth and adults know that there is at least one rabbbi and rebbetzin they can turn to that will understand and will
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"Hope for Teens" Gets Involved

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Hope for Teens posed for the NOH 8 Campaign during the Durham Pride event held in September . We are an anti-bullying and anti-cyberbullying non-profit organization in North Carolina and could not pass up the chance to "practice what we preach" if you will.  Our primary demographic are LGBT Teens and young adults but we do address bullying issues for ALL teens;
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Moving Forward Together, by Adam & Joshua

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
"Since the NOH 8 Campaign had been something that we'd both followed for a while we decided that it was something that we wanted to do together. We wanted to show our support together and celebrate the fall of DADT ." - Adam (left) & Joshua (right) "I come from a very religious Catholic family and one of the ways that I was able to learn about the world was through
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