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Dan Choi (born February 22, 1981) [2] is an American former infantry officer in the United States Army who served in combat in the Iraq War during 2006–2007. [3] He became an LGBT rights activist following his coming out on The Rachel Maddow Show in March 2009 and publicly challenged America's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, which forbade ...
20 wrz 2023 · Lt. Dan Choi, a gay Army officer discharged under "don't ask, don't tell," receives a hug before President Barack Obama signs the act lifting the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in...
12 maj 2009 · Lt. Daniel Choi announced on national television that he is gay. Then he received a discharge letter from the army saying he had engaged in "homosexual conduct."
The former lieutenant first rocked the nation on March 20, 2009, when he came out on The Rachel Maddow Show; soon after, he was discharged from the New York Army National Guard under the very policy he was protesting.
20 wrz 2011 · Choi, a resident of Midtown Manhattan, remembers feeling nervous when his soldiers learned he was gay.
15 gru 2010 · Lt. Dan Choi, the openly gay Army veteran who has been an outspoken critic of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, confirms that he has been hospitalized after suffering a "nervous...
22 wrz 2009 · Lt. Dan Choi — West Pointer, Iraq infantry veteran, Arabic linguist, and Baptist minister — speaks out against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy after getting the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard’s first Service to Humanity award.