Advocacy Groups
Servicemembers United – www.servicemembersunited.org
Servicemembers United - the nation’s largest organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans and their allies and supporters - is a non-partisan and non-profit organization whose primary goals are 1) to engage in education and advocacy on issues affecting gay and lesbian troops and veterans; 2) to serve as an associational organization for the gay and lesbian military, veteran, and defense community; 3) to represent the voice of Iraq/Afghanistan-era gay and lesbian troops and veterans; and 4) to forward and inform public debate on the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
The Human Rights Campaign – www.hrc.org
The Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, advocates on behalf of LGBT Americans, mobilizes grassroots actions in diverse communities, invests strategically to elect fair-minded individuals to office and educates the public about LGBT issues.
The Michael D. Palm Center – www.palmcenter.org
The Palm Center is a research institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara, committed to sponsoring state-of-the-art scholarship to enhance the quality of public dialogue about critical and controversial issues of the day. For the past decade, the Palm Center’s research on sexual minorities in the military has been published in leading social scientific journals.
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network – www.sldn.org
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network is a non-partisan, non-profit, legal services, watchdog and policy organization dedicated to ending discrimination against and harassment of military personnel affected by “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” SLDN provides free, confidential legal services to all those impacted by DADT and related discrimination.
Log Cabin Republicans – www.lcr.org
Log Cabin Republicans is a non-profit Republican political organization that works within the Republican party to promote equality for gay and lesbian Americans. Log Cabin has worked to advocate for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” among conservatives and to advance conservative arguments for repeal.
