October 19, 2026: When the Military Stopped Asking

Podcast: bsnsHistory · bsnsBasics

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

A federal judge's ruling forced the largest employer in America to change a policy it had defended for seventeen years, and someone walked through the door before the day was over to test it. On October 19, 2010, the Pentagon publicly confirmed that military recruiters had been instructed to accept openly gay and lesbian applicants, following Judge Virginia Phillips's injunction against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" a week earlier. That same day, discharged veteran Dan Choi walked into a recruiting station in Times Square and re-enlisted openly, becoming one of the first people in American history to join the military...