Don't Ask Don't Tell - Is it time for it go?

Should Gay soldiers be allowed to serve openly. President Obama has promised a change in the policy and people like General Colin Powell thinks that it should be changed too. What do you think. Join us to discuss the impact of repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT). Joining us to discuss DADT will be Denny Meyer. Denny has been an activist for 50 years, since he joined an NAACP picket line at the age of 13 in 1960. He has fought for Black civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, transgender rights and he is currently the national spokesperson for American Veterans For Equal Rights (the LGBT veterans’ service organization) and Transgender American Veterans Association; he is the editor of GayMilitarySignal.com advocating for the repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. Denny is a first generation American, his parents having been WWII Holocaust refugees; his mother was an illegal immigrant who arrived at Ellis Island in 1938 without papers. In 1968, at the height of the war in Vietnam, Denny volunteered to join the US Navy, “in order to pay my country back for my family’s freedom, for taking in my family during WWII.” He did this despite being gay, knowing he’d have to sacrifice his own freedom and live in a deep camouflage closet. He served for ten years in the Navy and later in the Army, leaving as a Sergeant First Class. After his life partner died of AIDS, and he survived a battle with cancer, Denny founded the New York Chapter of American Veterans For Equal Rights, devoting his time to advocating the right of all LGBT Americans to choose to volunteer to serve our country, helping LGBT veterans and service members deal with discrimination, and speaking out publicly. He has spoken at Brown, Harvard, and Columbia universities and with national and international news media. Also on th e program: Danny Ingram - American Veterans for Equal Rights, Marjorie Rudinsky - USMA Grad and member of Knights Out and Fred Minnick - author of Camera Boy