Gay Rights Group Celebrates Outlaw Of DADT

The group Servicemembers United released the following statement on Wednesday after President Obama signed a legislative repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy:

“Today, an historic wrong was finally made right. Today, the long and painful struggle of one million LGBT veterans was finally vindicated. Today, sixty-six thousand gay, lesbian, and bisexual Americans currently serving in uniform will sleep easier knowing that the odious ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ law is a thing of the past,” said Alexander Nicholson, Executive Director of Servicemembers United and a former multi-lingual Army interrogator who was discharged under DADT.

The group was formed in 1993 shortly after President Bill Clinton signed DADT into law.