DADT Archive

  • December Co-Chair’s Column by Reese Aaron Isbell

    December Co-Chair’s Column by Reese Aaron Isbell

    Alice Works (Her Butt Off)! 2011 Break-down: In my first year as Alice Co-Chair I realized just how much work it is to run this amazing organization. I’ve been on the Board of the Club since 2004, but I really had no idea how much everyone does until I had the unique vantage point of [...]

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  • DADT Repeal – A Witness to History

    DADT Repeal – A Witness to History

    by Zoe Dunning – new Alice Board Member Published in the Bay Area Reporters January 20th, 2011 Edition On December 22, I exited my cab in front of the Interior Department building in Washington, D.C. It was 6:40 a.m., pitch black, and cold. Groggy and chilled, I paid the driver and looked up to see [...]

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  • Letter to Speaker Pelosi

    Letter to Speaker Pelosi

    Dear Madame Speaker: We write to you to express our deep appreciation and gratitude for your extraordinary leadership in fighting for middle class Americans, minorities, and for our country’s future. From the moment you were confirmed as the Speaker of the House, you made San Francisco proud to be represented by the first woman Speaker. [...]

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  • September Co-Chair Column by Bentrish Satarzadeh

    September Co-Chair Column by Bentrish Satarzadeh

    Netroots Nation, an organization dedicated to providing progressive voices with a national forum, recently held its fifth annual convention, during which Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about ENDA and her thoughts on its eventual passage. “I can’t give you a time. But I can tell you that it is a priority and it had been [...]

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  • August Co-Chair Column by Charles Sheehan

    August Co-Chair Column by Charles Sheehan

    Constant Struggle How about that Alice Breakfast? I confess, I can’t stop talking or thinking about it. I find excuses to bring it up with people. In fact, when I see someone who attended the breakfast, I will usually start the conversation by asking, “How about that breakfast?” Over 415 people attended our event this [...]

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  • Help us Overturn Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

    Help us Overturn Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

    Dear Members of Alice: It is a critical time for our civil rights and specifically the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Please cut and paste the text below and send it in an email to Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, by no later than this weekend. It is important to send your emails right [...]

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  • May Co-Chair Column by Charles Sheehan

    May Co-Chair Column by Charles Sheehan

    Holding Elected Officials Accountable It’s 2010, and the year is exploding. Slate cards are abounding, the Alice breakfast train is leaving the station (June 27, mark your calendars now), ballot measures both locally and statewide threaten to bring about the end of civilization as we know it and candidates both locally and statewide are running [...]

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  • April Editors’ Epilogue by Jack Song

    April Editors’ Epilogue by Jack Song

    Learning to Read Earlier this month, the story of Constance McMillen caught the nation’s attention when her attempt to bring a same-sex date to her prom led to the Itawamba County School District’s decision to cancel the entire prom. However, buried in the media that same week was the story of Air Force sergeant Jene Newsome. Newsome [...]

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