Gays In The Military, Don't Ask Don't Tell | featured news

They are images Americans had never seen before. Jubilant young men and women in military uniforms marching beneath a rainbow flag in a gay-pride parade. Soldiers and sailors returning from deployment and, in time-honored tradition, embracing their beloved -- only this time with same-sex kisses.

A group representing gay conservatives says GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum should immediately apologize to a gay soldier who asked a ...

President Obama acknowledged the end of the military's ban on gays serving openly in the U.S. armed forces Tuesday, saying that the nation has taken "another great step toward keeping our military the finest in the world and toward fulfilling our nation's founding ideals."

When Navy Lt. Gary Ross and his partner were searching for a place to get married, they settled on a site in Vermont, in part because the state ...

Pentagon officials say the announcement will be made Friday. The ban on gays openly serving in the military would end 60 days later.

A new study puts a price tag of more than $193 million for the Pentagon to implement the policy of removing gays and lesbians from military service over a six-year period.

Vote clears way for passage of a bill to end policy, putting the campaign to end the ban on gay men and lesbians close to its conclusion.

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to overturn the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which bans gays and lesbians from serving openly.

Republicans blocked a last-ditch effort in the Senate to lift the military's ban on openly gay troops on Thursday, dealing a major blow to gay rights groups and making it unlikely Congress could...

Military chiefs told the Senate on Friday they opposed ending the armed forces' ban on gays anytime soon, urging caution over President Barack Obama's effort to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.