American Veterans for Equal Rights is saddened that the Senate failed today to proceed on the National Defense Authorization Act, with the inclusion of an amendment that would allow the President, Secretary of Defense, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, to repeal the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law. For the sake of bigotry the oppositional right can now block funding our military and supporting all of our patriotic service members.
Category Archives: Press Releases
Gay Vets Applaud Ban Ruling
American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER), the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender national veterans service organization, in its 20th year, applauds the ruling yesterday by a California judge that the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy violates the US Constitution. US Federal District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled that the policy violates the 1st and 5th Amendment rights of gay and lesbian service members in a case brought by the Log Cabin Republicans, a national organization of LGBT members of the Republican Party.
Vets Group Encourages Gay and Lesbian Troops to Take Pentagon Survey
Danny Ingram, president of American Veterans for Equal Rights, commenting on the recent release of a long anticipated Pentagon “2010 DoD Comprehensive Review Survey of Uniformed Active Duty and Reserve Service Members” regarding their attitude toward serving with openly gay personnel in America’s armed forces, said that “the survey may very well reveal that today’s patriotic young volunteers, honorably serving around the world today, are likely to show that they overwhelmingly believe in the equality they have sworn to defend and have not the slightest concern serving alongside fellow soldiers who happen to be gay.”
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Operation Golden Eagle participant Jack Strouss turns 87
Today is Jack Strouss’ 87th birthday. Jack was born in Atlanta, GA, where he still lives today, on June 24th, 1923. Jack was one of the three World War II veterans who lay a wreath this month in Arlington National Cemetery in honor of AVER’s fallen. Following are Jack’s own words describing the event. He wrote this up for his family and I asked if I could share it with AVER. I have left everything exactly as Jack wrote it.
Obit: AJ Rogue, former AVER President, dies at 51
Alan J. Rogue
April 20, 1959 – June 22, 2010
Alan J. Rogue, 51, of 122 Claybrook Drive, died at 12:18 a.m. Tuesday, June 22, 2010, at the St. Elizabeth Hospital, Main Campus in Youngstown.
AVER’s Operation Golden Eagle to Coincide with Capital Pride in DC
OPERATION GOLDEN EAGLE
American Veterans For Equal Rights
20th Anniversary DC Event in June
Honors LGBT WWII Vets
by Danny Ingram, AVER President
This June, American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER) celebrates 20 years of working for LGBT equality in the US Armed Forces with Operation Golden Eagle, a series of events planned in conjunction with Capital Pride in Washington DC, the city where AVER was born in 1990.
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