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August, 2011

Sound Off!

Sound Off!

What do you think about the magazine? Comments, questions, encouragement, debate – bring it! Respond in the comments below – your input might get featured in our next issue of OutServe Magazine! [...]

The OutHeroes Project: Capt Rich Richenberg

In Honor of Captain Rich Richenberg, US Air Force by Michelle Benecke, Esq. Rich Richenberg served in Desert Storm One, where he commanded the control center aboard the AWACs aircraft and garnered numerous accolades as an [...]

OutServe Survey Findings – The Largest LGBT Troop Survey To-date

OutServe Survey Findings – The Largest LGBT Troop Survey To-date

OutServe recently conducted an unscientific online survey between April 28th and May 16th that surveyed 224 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) uniformed DoD and Coast Guard personnel. The questions focused on various aspects of the [...]

A Reason To Live

A Reason To Live

She kept saying ‘okay, okay, okay, okay,’ as if she could somehow talk herself into accepting the complete destruction of the world she knew by wishing everything to be okay. But it wasn’t okay. [...]

Equal Opportunity – The Bench: You’re the Judge

Equal Opportunity – The Bench: You’re the Judge

...most people do not realize the main purpose of Military Equal Opportunity is to evaluate discrimination at an institutional level, not at a unit-level. MEO tracks recruitment, retention, and promotion rates of protected classes across all [...]

Conquering You – A Naval Academy Graduate’s Story of Love, Loss, and Finding His Place

Conquering You – A Naval Academy Graduate’s Story of Love, Loss, and Finding His Place

I walked toward my blocks with an uncontainable air of assurance. I kneeled inside my blocks. I was ready for this. I foolishly glanced up again to the bleacher on my right - and my heart [...]

DoD Updates Congress on DADT Repeal Implementation

DoD Updates Congress on DADT Repeal Implementation

DoD Updates Congress on DADT Repeal Implementation; New Law’s Opponents Use Hearings as Soapbox By D. Small In the midst of a government wide shut down threat over a budget impasse, the Republican-controlled House Armed Services Committee [...]

It Gets Better – The Book

It Gets Better – The Book

High school, it seems, was built for drama. Maybe it’s because of hormones or because everybody’s searching for who they are or the person they’ll become, but one thing’s certain: Mean Girls, jocks and cheerleaders, nerdy [...]

Ask Sarge: Answers to LGBT Military Issues

Ask Sarge: Answers to LGBT Military Issues

I have been in a relationship for a little over a year and things have been going very well. My significant other is a civilian, and has never seemed to have a problem with my life [...]

Marriage: Equality’s Final Frontier – Why DOMA Matters

Marriage: Equality’s Final Frontier – Why DOMA Matters

“Animus towards gays and lesbians or simply a belief that a relationship between a man and a woman is inherently better than a relationship between two men or two women, this belief is not a proper [...]