(WB) Amal Awad, a 27-year veteran police officer in Prince George’s County who in January 2019 became the first black, female, and openly LGBT Chief of Police in Hyattsville, Md., was scheduled to be sworn in on Dec. 17 as the new Anne Arundel County Chief of Police.

Jupiter-based Clicking In Forum will hold a panel discussion on the impact of LGBT organizations and people on businesses and the community in Palm Beach County.

Washington, D.C. defense think tanks estimate more than 14,000 American service members had their careers cut short by “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

WASHINGTON — Greg Nelson had just turned 21 when he went out partying with friends in Southern California and got really drunk. So, when a man he didn't know offered to let him crash in a nearby apartment, his friends urged him to accept.

(WB) Faced with President Trump’s task of implementing a ban on their service, Defense Secretary James Mattis has issued a memo allowing transgender troops currently in the military to re-enlist — at least during the six-month period when Pentagon studies the issue.

(LA Blade) The Trevor Project on Wednesday released its report on a study of LGBT youth who have a parent/guardian currently serving in the armed forces of the U.S.

(AP) President's Trump decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military sparked a wave of condemnation from Democrats and Republicans alike.

(WB) Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont against U.S. military officials and the Vermont National Guard, challenging the antiquated, irrational, and discriminatory policies that bar individuals living with HIV from their professional aspirations of enlisting in or commissioning to the military. 

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is giving the military chiefs another six months to conduct a review to determine if allowing transgender individuals to enlist in the armed services will affect the "readiness or lethality" of the force.

Wilton Manors commissioners bounced around several proposals in the city’s ongoing negotiations with the local chapter of Kiwanis International, a club of volunteers who work together to improve the community.

Only recently have LGBT people been able to serve openly in the U.S. military. “Don’t Ask, Do Tell,” a new exhibit at the Stonewall National Museum and Archives (SNMA) in Fort Lauderdale, explores the lengths the government has gone over the past 250 years to drum out gay soldiers who bravely served their country.

NEW YORK — Two New York legislators are leading a campaign to designate Stonewall Inn as the first national park honoring LGBT history.

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama is marking five years since he signed legislation repealing the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

HillVets, a non-partisan group of veterans, service members and supporters has named U.S. Army General Randy Taylor to a list of most impactful active duty service members.

More than a hundred personnel from airmen, soldiers of the U.S. Army and more are informing their superiors about seeking a transition thanks to a recent military transgender policy.

(WB) The Defense Department announced on Wednesday an updated policy to fully reverse former President Trump’s transgender military ban, allowing for enlistment regardless of gender identity and access to transition-related care through the U.S. military’s health care system.

The Pentagon is allowing transgender people to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, despite President Donald Trump's opposition.

A challenge to the U.S. military’s ban on the enlistment of people living with HIV has been launched.

There are always wonderful dogs at the Humane Society of Broward County and one gal that seems to be getting overlooked is 3-year-old Selena (ID A652075) one of the most well-behaved and well-mannered dogs currently at the shelter.

The President’s pick for Secretary of the Air Force is already drawing fire on her record on LGBT rights.

In Jay Coles' book "Things We Couldn't Say," he writes about a queer Black boy coming to terms with his sexuality as he wrestles with the world and his inner self.

(WB) On the heels of her tirade in committee over allowing transgender people to serve in the U.S. military, Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) has proposed an amendment that would bar the Defense Department from providing transition-related care for troops.

After Trump took to Twitter to announce his decision to bar transgender individuals from serving in the military, he and the proposed ban were met with a number of criticisms and studies that negated his arguments of health care costs and readiness.

An earlier version of this article appeared in “Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context,” edited by Vern L. Bullough, Harrington Park, 2002.

The other night some friends and I went out for drinks and afterward decided we needed a workout, so we headed to the Gym.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) introduced a proposal to ban Americans from serving in the U.S. military if they have a diagnosis or history of gender dysphoria. 

A Russian state news outlet mocked transgender troops while reporting on the repeal on the ban on their service in the United States.

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While the repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell stopped discharges of gays, lesbians and bisexuals from the military, the policy on trans military personnel hasn’t changed.

(CNN) -- One of the nation's most prestigious teams of flying acrobats dive-bombed into the depths of sexual harassment and stayed there for at least a year, a new Navy study says.