SLDN has issued a press release announcing their new Freedom to Serve Guide:
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) today unveiled a comprehensive new legal guide for LGBT service members, veterans, future recruits, and their families, creating a first-of-its-kind overview of laws and policies related to military service in the U.S. following the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), as well as practical information for advocates and friends of LGBT service members. Freedom to Serve: The Definitive Guide to LGBT Military Service is downloadable in .pdf format at www.sldn.org.To download Freedom to Serve: The Definitive Guide to LGBT Military Service, click here.
“The information contained in this legal guide will help service members, prospective service members, their families, and friends make informed decisions about how to serve successfully as we move beyond ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ It will also assist them in understanding how to protect themselves when necessary and how to respond if they are targeted in any way for their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity,” said SLDN Legal Director David McKean.
In addition, the guide serves as the core content for the newly designed SLDN web site, www.sldn.org, unveiled today. The re-launched site is aimed squarely at providing LGBT service members, veterans and their families with the legal tools and other information they need to navigate the post-DADT repeal military environment...
