What was “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and why did it face a lot of backlash from the LGBTQ+ community?
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The problem was with the ‘don’t tell’ part of the wording. It didn’t just correlate to work environments. If a gay marine went to the beach and kissed his boyfriend, and the lieutenant was out with his family that same day and saw it, that was considered ‘telling’. Once the higher up knew, there were no laws to stop discrimination from that point forward. So gay service men and women needed to be closeted in all forms of their life, not just ‘at the office’.
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