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Related: About this forumAir Force Academy Graduates First Openly Gay Cadets
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Eight months after a repeal of the militarys dont ask , dont tell policy, the U.S. Air Force Academy today graduated its first group of openly gay cadets.
As President Obama addressed the graduates, no rainbow flags could be seen on display. The LGBT students couldnt be picked out of the crowd of white and blue.
But gay and lesbian advocates, academy alums, school officials and current students said they were there.
The whole thing is we dont want to be identified as anything different, said Trish Heller, who heads the Blue Alliance, an association of LGBT Air Force Academy alumni. We want to serve, to be professional and to be symbols of what it means to be Air Force Academy graduates.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/air-force-academy-graduates-first-openly-gay-cadets/
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