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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It did not face a lot of backlash from the LGBT community (as it was known then) because this was intended to be an improvement.
Prior to DADT gays in the service could just be hunted out. DADT was supposed to stop that, and in theory gay men and lesbians could serve as long as they didn’t bring up being gay.
I don’t think people who were not cognizant back then can appreciate how long and hard we worked for each step toward making things better. They probably seem like undignified compromises now, but even though we understood the underlying unfairness we still had to take the improvements we *could* get to get closer to fairness.
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