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GetEQUAL Challenges Hagel: What Exactly Will You Do To Protect LGBT Service Members?

GetEQUAL, the LGBT civil rights organization, has responded to Chuck Hagel‘s comments yesterday, and is challenging the former Nebraska Republican Senator to get specific. Hagel, whom President Obama nominated to become America’s next Defense Secretary, has yet to receive the full support of the LGBT community after his anti-gay comments were revealed. Hagel has since apologized and  Read More »

Breaking: Hagel Commits To Extending Benefits To Families Of Gay Service Members

Chuck Hagel today sent a letter to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) committing to providing benefits to families of all service members, including those who are lesbian, gay, and bisexual. Hagel is working through a contentious nomination process to replace Leon Panetta as America’s next Secretary of Defense. Neo-con conservatives and gay GOP groups have stridently opposed  Read More »

Hagel prepares for nomination fight

GetEQUAL: Hagel Nomination ‘At Odds With Obama Administration’s Values’

GetEQUAL, the LGBT civil rights organization best-known for pushing the Obama administration and Congress to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, today issued a second press release opposing Chuck Hagel as President Obama‘s nominee to replace Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense. “After a review of Hagel’s 12-year voting record in the U.S. Senate (from the 105th Congress to  Read More »

PRESS STATEMENT: GetEQUAL Opposes Hagel Nomination for SecDef

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 Media Contact: Heather Cronk, 202-491-7240, heather@getequal.org Hagel’s Nomination At Odds With Obama Administration’s Values WASHINGTON, DC — Today, GetEQUAL — a national civil rights organization urgently advocating for the full federal equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans — reiterated its opposition to President Barack Obama’s nomination of  Read More »

GetEQUAL To Obama: Hagel’s Anti-LGBT History Makes Him Unacceptable For Defense

GetEQUAL, the LGBT civil rights organization that is widely credited for helping repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, today told President Obama they strongly oppose Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. Hagel has a history of anti-LGBT comments, for which he recently apologized in the wake of his name being floated to replace Leon Panetta. “GetEQUAL strongly opposes the potential  Read More »

PRESS STATEMENT: GetEQUAL Issues Statement Opposing Hagel as Secretary of Defense

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 4, 2013 Media Contact: Heather Cronk, heather@getequal.org, (202) 505-5217 LGBT Civil Rights Organization Calls on President Obama to Abandon Hagel as Nominee for Secretary of Defense WASHINGTON, DC — Below is a statement from GetEQUAL — a national civil rights organization working for the full federal equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual,  Read More »

Statement on Appointment of Allyson Robinson as ED of OutServe-SLDN

GetEQUAL’s Statement on the Appointment of Allyson Robinson as the Executive Director of OutServe-SLDN GetEQUAL congratulates Allyson Robinson, on her appointment today as executive director of OutServe-SLDN, a leading advocacy organization serving active-duty LGBT members of the military and veterans. Allyson is uniquely qualified to assume the leadership reins of OutServe-SLDN as its chief advocate.  Read More »

Will you take a chance on getting equal?

On July 5, one day after millions of Americans celebrated a holiday that symbolizes freedom, Major Jiminez and Beau Chandler took a bold stand for equality. They walked to a marriage counter in Dallas, Texas, requested a marriage license that they were denied, handcuffed themselves together, and sat down. They were arrested and, on August 2,  Read More »

President Obama bristles when he is the target of activist tactics he once used

Video: President Barack Obama’s relationship with the liberal base, namely gays and immigrants, has shifted from one of great expectation to tense confrontations to pragmatic coexistence in his first term. But the Post’s Peter Wallsten says the president needs the support of these ‘key’ electorates for a successful re-election this fall. (Click photo above for  Read More »