"Don't ask" violations drop slightly.Reacting to a report that harassment Ask a Lawyer Question Country: United States of America State: Nevada I recently moved to nev.from abut have been going back to ca. every 2 to 3 weeks for med. of gays in the military is down slightly but still a major threat, the Bush administration said March 15 that it would draft regulations regarding the issue. There is no timetable for the directive, but Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, a Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering spokesman, said that "it should be very clear to everyone who serves in uniform or out that harassment is simply not tolerated in any branch of the armed forces." In its seventh annual report on "don't ask, don't tell," the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) is a non-profit legal services, watchdog, and policy organization in the United States. SLDN is dedicated to ending discrimination and harassment of gay and lesbian U.S. said there was a decline of more than 10% in incidents of antigay harassment in the military in 2000. But the group cautioned that many commanders continue to violate the policy by overzealously investigating the sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. of service members. Harassment Reports 1999 986 2000 871 Note: Table made from bar graph. |
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