A civil rights Christmas present for LGBTs

The Senate is now on the precipice of history. By a 63-33 vote, the Senate has ended debate on repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, sending it to a Senate vote and the likely passage of a repeal.

When that happens, and when it is signed by President Obama into law, lesbians and gays will no longer be forced to serve their country from the closet. They will have full citizenship rights.

That’s really what this has been about.

• Send me an e-mail.
• Read poetry at The Subterranean.
• Certainties and Uncertainties a chapbook by Hank Kalet, will be published in November by Finishing Line Press. It can be ordered here.
• Suburban Pastoral, a chapbook by Hank Kalet, available here.

Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet