55 Grant, Mottet, and Tanis, “Injustice at Every Turn.” 56 Gates and Newport, “Special Report: 3.4% of U.S. Adults Identify as LGBT.”
72 Harrison-Quintana and Herman, “Still Serving in Silence.”
57 M.V. Lee Badgett, Laura E. Durso, and Alyssa Schneebaum, “New Patterns of Poverty in the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community” (Los Angeles: The Williams Institute, 2013), available at http://williamsinstitute.law. ucla.edu/research/census-lgbt-demographics-studies/ lgbt-poverty-update-june-2013/.
73 National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statics, Minority Veterans: 2011 (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2013), available at http://www.va.gov/vetdata/docs/ SpecialReports/Minority_Veterans_2011.pdf; National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics, Women Veteran Profile (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2013), available at http://www.va.gov/vetdata/docs/ SpecialReports/Women_Veteran_Profile5.pdf.
58 Ibid.
74 McKean and others, “Freedom to Serve.”
59 Grant, Mottet, and Tanis, “Injustice at Every Turn.”
75 Ibid.
60 Badgett and others, “New Patterns of Poverty.”
76 Tilcsik, “Pride and Prejudice.”
61 Gates, “Gay Veterans Top One Million”; Gary J. Gates, “Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Men and Women in the U.S. Military: Updated Estimates” (Los Angeles: The Williams Institute, 2010), available at http://williamsinstitute.law. ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-GLBmilitaryUpdate-May-20101.pdf.
77 Michelle Garcia, “Rep. Jim Jordan Would ‘Certainly’ Bring Back ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’” The Advocate, September 18, 2012, available at http://www.advocate.com/politics/ military/2012/09/18/rep-jim-jordan-would-certainlybring-back-dont-ask-dont-tell-0; Aaron Belkin and others, “One Year Out: An Assessment of DADT Repeal’s Impact on Military Readiness” (Los Angeles: Palm Center, 2012), available at http://www.palmcenter.org/ files/One%20Year%20Out_0.pdf.
62 Angeliki Kastanis and Gary J. Gates, “LGBT AfricanAmericans and African-American Same-Sex Couples” (Los Angeles: The Williams Institute, 2013), available at http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/ uploads/Census-AFAMER-Oct-2013.pdf; HarrisonQuintana and Herman, “Still Serving in Silence.” 63 Gates, “Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Men and Women in the U.S. Military.” 64 Each branch of the military is responsible for determining standards of medical fitness for their respective service members, but each maintains a blanket ban on enlistment and retention of transgender individuals. For example, see Army Regulation 40-501, “Standards of Medical Fitness” (2011), available at http://www.apd. army.mil/pdffiles/r40_501.pdf. 65 Katie Miller, “The New DADT: The Military’s Ban on Transgender Service,” OutServe Magazine, January 31, 2012, available at http://outservemag.com/2012/01/ the-new-dadt-the-militarys-ban-on-transgenderservice/. 66 Harrison-Quintana and Herman, “Still Serving in Silence.” 67 Ibid. 68 Ibid. 69 Veterans Health Administration, Providing Health Care for Transgender and Intersex Veterans (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2013), available at http://www. va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ ID=2863. 70 U.S. Government Printing Office, “38 C.F.R. 17.38(c) (4) Medical benefits package,” available at http://www.gpo. gov/fdsys/granule/CFR-2009-title38-vol1/CFR-2009-title38-vol1-sec17-38 (last accessed February 2014). 71 Andrew Cray, “After Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Ensuring the Health of Gay and Transgender Veterans” (Washington: Center for American Progress, 2012), available at http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/ uploads/2012/09/CrayDADTBrief1.pdf; Andrew Cray and Joseph Jefferson, “Reaching All Who Served: An Analysis of Department of Veterans Affairs LGBT Health Policies” (Washington: National Coalition for LGBT Health, 2011), available at http://lgbthealth. webolutionary.com/sites/default/files/VA%20Final%20 Report%20_0.pdf.
78 Tyrone C. Marshall, “Defense Department Hosts First LGBT Pride Month Event,” American Forces Press Service, June 26, 2012, available at http://www.defense. gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=116908. 79 Jeffrey T. Parsons and others, “Harassment, victimization, mental health, substance abuse, and sexual risk behaviors of LGBT service members in the U.S. military,” Windy City Times, December 10, 2013, available at http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/ReportLGBT-service-members-face-harassment-victimization/45438.html. 80 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, H. Rept. 3304, 113 Cong. 1 sess. (Government Printing Office, 2014), available at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/ pkg/CPRT-113HPRT86280/pdf/CPRT-113HPRT86280. pdf. 81 David Gibson, “Pentagon: No crackdown on Christians for expressing faith,” USA Today, May 2, 2013, available at http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/ nation/2013/05/02/evangelical-pentagon-departmentof-defense/2130583/. 82 Office of Management and Budget, Statement of Administration Policy: H.R. 1960 – National Defense Authorization Act of FY 2014 (The White House, 2013), available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/ files/omb/legislative/sap/113/saphr1960r_20130611. pdf. 83 Lisa Keen, “Defense Bill Worries Some” Windy City Times, December 11, 2013, available at http://www. windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Defense-bill-worriessome/45511.html. 84 U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs, “Title 38 U.S.C.,” available at http://www.benefits.va.gov/COMPENSATION/claims-special-1151.asp (last accessed February 2014). 85 Rick Maze. “Gay Dallas couple faces veterans home loan problems,” Army Times, December 10, 2013, available at http://www.armytimes.com/article/20131210/ NEWS/312100031/. 86 Ibid.
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