West Point marries first active-duty, same-sex couple
Source: Newsweek Magazine
BY LAUREN GILL ON 1/21/18 AT 10:55 AM
Two Army captains who met in the “don’t ask, don’t tell” era of the military, became the first active-duty, same-sex couple to get married at West Point when they exchanged vows last weekend.
Capt. Daniel Hall, 30, and Capt. Vinny Franchino, 26, both Apache helicopter pilots, were married at the New York military academy’s picturesque chapel, the New York Times reported on Friday.
The couple met in 2009 when Hall was a senior and Franchino was a freshman. At the time, former President Bill Clinton’s policy, “don’t ask, don’t tell” was in effect, barring homosexual or bisexual members of the military from disclosing his or her sexual orientation and from speaking about homosexual relationships.
“We couldn’t tell the truth for fear of what would happen to us,” Franchino told The Times. “So we put it in our minds that we were never going to say we were gay, we were never going to get made fun of, and we were certainly never going to get kicked out of the Army.”
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/west-point-marries-first-active-duty-same-sex-couple-786257
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Is it okay to call it the long gay line? Sorry but I couldn't resist. Congratulations to the couple and I wish them nothing but blue skies.
