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Gains Outweigh Setbacks in Landmark Year
Sunday, 19 December 2010 15:49
Gains outweigh setbacks for gay rights
By Robin Abcarian and Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times
Today the military, tomorrow the marriage altar?
In an era when gay Americans have seen stunning progress and many setbacks in the quest for equality under the law, many believe 2010 will go down in history as a watershed that will lead inexorably to more legal rights.
Saturday's vote in the Senate to allow the repeal of the federal law banning gays from openly serving in the military is "one of the greatest, if not the greatest, victory in the history of the movement for gay and lesbian equality," said Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center, a UC Santa Barbara think tank that studies the issue of gays in the military. "Going back thousands of years, the marker of a first-class citizen has always been someone who's been allowed to serve in the military."
Most countries that allow gay marriage, he added, lifted their military bans on gays first.
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