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December 03, 2003

Ask, Tell, Live in the Open

It probably isn't what the armed forces want to see, but a handful of service members have formed GLSME: Gay & Lesbian Service Members for Equality.

The GLSME (Gay and Lesbian Service Members for Equality) is the voice of gay and lesbian service members around the world who are seeking a change. We are a unique group of about 15 actively serving members of the United States armed forces, with a basic goal: to lift the ban on gays in the military and allow them to serve without fear or prejudice in the armed services.

The GLSME was formed in August of 2002, in response not only to the persecutions of the last decade, but more importantly because skilled, quality soldiers are being discharged for being gay, a facet that makes them no less mission capable. Service members vital to the welfare of our nation are being released when America needs them the most.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell is a ridiculous policy, formed around the idiotic concept that a straight man can't sleep comfortably in the same barracks or tent as a gay man.

Hey, uptight straight guy, the vast majority of women are not wanting to bed you - chances are that the vast majority of gay men don't want to play hide and seek in ye olde hiney hole with you either. Get over yourself and focus on the mission.

These homosexuals aren't asking for the right to tug on your ding-a-ling in the shower, to drop the soap and hope you pay attention, to share your bunk, or to cuddle up next to you in a foxhole pleading "Please, Dan, I don't want to die a virgin!"

It's sad that we think homosexuals are fine enough soldiers to contribute, bleed, and die for their country, but only so long as we don't know that Adam likes Steve rather than Eve. "But other soldiers might have a problem serving with them," they'll say - well, folks, tough shit. I'm sure some mighty white soldiers had a problem serving with "Nigger Jim" once upon a way back when; check the blood gushing from the sucking, battlefield wound of a white man, a black man, a straight man, a gay man, and let me know if you can tell the difference.

GLSME found via local, out-and-proud blogger Dave Cullen.