At Metro Weekly, I look at this week’s developments in “DADT Gathers Steam on the Hill“:
A week that already was shaping up to be a busy one for the efforts to repeal the ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy took an unexpected veer on Monday morning when the New York Daily News reported that Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) will be ”taking the lead on repeal” of the policy. . . . At the same time, The New York Times reported on an advance copy it had received of a new report from the Palm Center, previously mentioned at Metro Weekly, investigating ”Gays in Foreign Militaries 2010: A Global Primer.”
In a copy obtained by Metro Weekly, the study’s lead author, Nathaniel Frank, lays out the purpose of the report.
”This study brings together the results of all the major research on gays in foreign militaries and updates that research to the present,” Frank writes, ”focusing on the experiences of Britain, Canada, and other English-speaking nations with relatively similar cultures to that of the U.S.”
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Chris Geidner is the award-winning senior political writer at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. In 2011, he received the Excellence in News Writing Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his coverage of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found