Timeline: LGBT people and the U.S. military

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

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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.

1865, October

Walt Whitman publishes Drum-Taps and Sequel (Washington, D.C.). Begins relationship with Peter Doyle, an eighteen-year old Confederate horse-car conductor, in Washington.

1865, May

Walt Whitman begins printing series of Civil War poems titled Drum-Taps (New York), but suspends printing to add a sequel commemorating Lincoln.

1863–1864, June

Walt Whitman moves to Washington, D.C.; visits and comforts wounded soldiers in military hospitals and supports himself as part-time clerk in Army Paymaster's Office.

1862, December

Walt Whitman goes to Virginia where he learns that his brother George has been wounded at Fredricksburg; remains in camp two weeks.

1861, April 12

The Civil War begins; Walt Whitman's brother George enlists. Walt Whitman writes freelance journalism; visits the sick and injured at New York Hospital.

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.

1778, March 14

American Revolutionary Army: "attempting to commit sodomy", March 14, 1778

George Washington's general orders report the court-martial of Lieutenant Frederick Gotthold Enslin for attempted sodomy

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