By Alexander Nicholson
ISBN-10: 1613743726
ISBN-13: 9781613743720
Discharged in 2002 from the USA military lower than the provisions of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Alexander Nicholson used to be stunned to profit there has been no team advocating DADT’s repeal that was once attaining out to lively army or veterans firms. Nicholson believed the repeal attempt wanted spokespersons who understood army tradition, who might discuss DADT’s impression on those that serve to those that serve and served. an individual like him.
From this concept Servicemembers United, the biggest association for homosexual and lesbian servicemembers, was once born. Nicholson and several other others who have been discharged below DADT toured the us, the place they spoke at American Legion posts, on radio speak indicates, and at press meetings around the South and on either coasts. stunned on the commonly confident reception that the travel provoked, Nicholson and Servicemembers United have been propelled to the vanguard of the DADT repeal fight.
In time Nicholson grew to become the one named plaintiff within the profitable lawsuit that ordered the coverage overturned, forcing the USA Congress to behave. Fighting to Serve offers a no-holds-barred account of the behind the curtain thoughts and negotiations, revealing how a number of LGBT businesses, the Congress, the Pentagon, and the White condo frequently labored at move reasons. yet finally, it was once the strain introduced via energetic veterans, a courtroom ruling out of California, and some brave senators, representatives, and armed forces leaders that introduced the harmful coverage to an finish.
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I wish I could see the look I must have had on my face when I first realized that maybe this new lifestyle of politics and advocacy wasn’t just temporary. Although that scene didn’t make it into the groundbreaking documentary, a film aptly named Ask Not, PBS managed to capture the moment when I truly felt like I had become the unlikely activist. I always found it funny when people would tell me that they came from a small town too, and that their small town had only about forty or fifty thousand people in it.
Once again, my parents could not have been prouder of me, and I could not have been more relieved to finally be able to get away for a while. After Christmas, I headed up to New York City for New Year’s to meet up with some friends. Going back home to South Carolina for Christmas had given me enough of a taste of my old home life and family, but getting to New York reminded me once again of my real life immediately prior to joining the army, a life in which I was comfortable being gay and relatively open about it to those around me.
Only a few close friends knew at that point that I had been kicked out of the military for being gay, and none of them even knew who my parents were or where they lived. When I told her that I thought that was a strange question and asked why she was inquiring, she explained that an envelope from the army had just arrived at their home and that my father, thinking anything coming from the army to their home must be for him, had opened it up. My father and I have the same name—I’m the third and he’s a junior—and my parents’ address had been listed on my military records as my “home of record” address, as is the case with most young recruits.
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