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Donald Trump's Department of Justice has had a difficult few days in court as the administration continues to try to ban transgender people from military service.
Details from a report due out next month paint a culture of “overt homophobia” in the country’s military.
Former Army Secretary Eric Fanning has a few thoughts on Republicans smearing the armed forces.
The TransMilitary Project is running a Kickstarter campaign for a documentary on trans troops who have come out despite the armed forces' ban.
Decades ago, William Broadus fought in a segregated military. Now, his trans son is trying to integrate the armed forces once again.
It's not enough to be good soldiers — trans military members have to tell their own stories to ensure that change occurs in the armed forces, says the director of a new documentary on the subject.
Defense secretary Robert Gates declined to say Sunday whether the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should apologize for his remark that homosexual acts are immoral or whether it was a slur on gay members of the armed forces.
The Dominican Republic does not ban same-sex conduct by private individuals.
Courts have already ruled that HIV-positive troops currently serving can be deployed overseas, and now it's time to let Americans who are positive enlist, says the legal group.
He says he prefers a time when members of the U.S. armed forces could not serve openly.
Ten years after the repeal, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reflects on its benefits to the armed forces.
Speaking at San Diego Pride, the highest-ranking gay person in the armed forces struck back at criticism that a more inclusive military is engaging in "social experimentation."
As stress continues to take its toll on a military stretched to its limits, dismissals of gay soldiers press forward with no sign that the White House has a plan to lift the armed forces' ban.
Critics of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy are gaining new allies, including a few conservative congressmen and a West Point professor, as they press on multiple fronts to overturn the ban on out-of-the-closet gays and lesbians in the armed forces.
The settlement will see that the two are commissioned as officers "in recognition of the status and military careers they qualified for and earned years ago."
Rishi Sunak's apology came after the release of a report on how armed forces members were harmed by the policy.
The exclusion of trans people from the armed forces is an injustice to all trans people, regardless of our relationship with the military.
A new mini-documentary highlights the uncertain state of existence for an estimated 15,500 transgender Americans currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.
The presidential hopeful was apparently unaware that transgender Americans can't serve openly in the armed forces, according to an interview with Fusion's Jorge Ramos.
