GayRVA has an interview with Ryan Conrad, member of Against Equality and editor of the collection Don’t Ask To Fight Their Wars:

Does the jubilee around DADT repeal upset you?

The repeal of DADT doesn’t necessarily upset me, but the U.S. Military and U.S. foreign policy make me absolutely furious.  What is upsetting about the DADT issue specifically is how it became the issue, along with gay marriage and hate crimes legislation, as the primary issues we should take up as LGBT people.  Sadly, addressing issues like poverty, lack of health care, access to education, the chipping away of public social safety nets, just to name a few, would likely do more good for the millions of LGBT people in this country than giving us the option of joining the U.S. Military.

GayRVA has an interview with Ryan Conrad, member of Against Equality and editor of the collection Don’t Ask To Fight Their Wars:

Does the jubilee around DADT repeal upset you?

The repeal of DADT doesn’t necessarily upset me, but the U.S. Military and U.S. foreign policy make me absolutely furious.  What is upsetting about the DADT issue specifically is how it became the issue, along with gay marriage and hate crimes legislation, as the primary issues we should take up as LGBT people.  Sadly, addressing issues like poverty, lack of health care, access to education, the chipping away of public social safety nets, just to name a few, would likely do more good for the millions of LGBT people in this country than giving us the option of joining the U.S. Military.