Nevada - Working for a better Nevada for all, including veterans and marginalized people | Scaffidi

Sherie Paulie Scaffidi
Reno Gazette-Journal

Reno, NV

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Illinois - Veterans, Lawmakers Push to Overturn Transgender Service Ban

Alexandra Silets
WTTW

Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Chicago, IL

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Rhode Island - Vella-Wilkinson bill would extend benefits to gay, transgender veterans without honorable discharges

Rob Borkowski
Warwick Post

Warwick, RI

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Alabama - Transgender Alabama veterans criticize Trump’s military ban

Jonece Starr Dunigan
AL.com

Montgomery, AL

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At a Navajo veterans' event, Trump makes 'Pocahontas' crack

Dan Merica
CNN

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ezs note:  If you happen to be in Holyoke, Massachusetts on November 9, perhaps you should be here.

Louie Gohmert: Oppose Transgender Rights To Save Veterans' Lives

Brian Tashman
Right Wing Watch

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ezs note:  Oh, Louie, you crazy ol' lunatic, I can't help but love you.  Without meaning to, you help the ACLU go on. (hint, hint)  Please, Louie... go right ahead!

Military Benefits Could Cover Sex Reassignment for Transgender Veterans

Michael Lambert
Out

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Ben Carson to veterans: ‘Deal with the transgender thing somewhere else’

Shaquille Brewster and Emma Margolin
The Washington Post

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LGBT veterans to get their first federally approved monument

Alan Yuhas 
theguardian

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ACLU wants Army to help 2 transgender veterans

http://www.njherald.com/

to read more, go to:  http://www.njherald.com/story/26252900/aclu-wants-army-to-help-2-transgender-veterans

New memorial planned for gay veterans at Washington cemetery

Josh Hicks
http://www.washingtonpost.com

to read more, go to:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/08/08/new-memorial-planned-for-gay-veterans-at-washington-cemetery/

New era for gay veterans as military reaches out

Kevin Fagan

http://www.sfgate.com/

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