The “Only” Gay in the Military

06/26/24 • 38 min

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A lawsuit meant Zoe Dunning was the only LGBTQ+ person allowed in the miltiary for 13 years. Compliant at first, she would tranform into one of the most vocal opponents against the military's ban on gays. She would eventually stand next to President Obama as he abolished the ban for good.

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And then I got called in and they sat me down and they just said, we've discovered evidence that leads us to believe that you may be homosexual. What do you have to say to that? And I said, it's not true. Then they asked me to name men that I had dated as some sort of evidence or proof that I wasn't homosexual.