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 was the official US military policy on non-heterosexual (and non-cisgender) service members.
The “Don’t ask, Don’t Tell” was the US Military policy where personnel were not meant to ask if someone was gay, lesbian, whatever. And people who were in the military that were gay, lesbian, whatever, were supposed to not tell anyone. Keep it to themselves.
Basically it was the US Military telling LGBT+ people “Listen, we don’t want to hunt down and kick gays out of the military, but we ALSO don’t want to publicly support LGBT service members, so just don’t cause any trouble, got it? Thanks.”
This meant that LGBT service members at that time had to hide their identities to avoid facing any repercussions.
Because if it DID get out that you were LGBT in the military, they could and would absolutely kick your ass out.
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