Timeline: LGBT people and the U.S. military

A chronological list of data on LGBT people and the U.S. military

2010, November 11

O'Keefe, Ed, and Greg Jaffe. "Sources: Pentagon group finds there is minimal risk to lifting gay ban during war." Washington Post, Thursday, November 11, 2010; 12:47 AM

A Pentagon study group has concluded that the military can lift the ban on gays serving openly in uniform with only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the current war efforts, according to two people familiar with a draft of the report, which is due to President Obama on Dec. 1. Accessed on November 11, 2010 from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/10/AR2010111007381.html

2010, July 7

U.S. Defense Department Survey on Gays in Military: July 7, 2010

On July 7, 2010 the U.S. Defense Department sent out to 400,000 service members a survey asking about gay men and lesbians in the military.

1804-1810

Biddle's "Men Dressed in Squars Clothes", 1804-10

From the journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

1779-1783

Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens: 1779-1783

The letters of American revolutionary soldier Alexander Hamilton to John Lauren contain repeated expressions of love.