After fall of Dont Ask, Pushing for I Do

This article “After fall of “Don’t Ask”, Pushing for “I Do”, was written by Sheryl Gay Stoleburg and published: December 20, 2010 in the New York Times. Basically this article summarizes the affect of gay and lesbian rights in politics and how it affects the different politician’s votes. The first part of the article talks about senator Jesse Helms who spoke against a Bill Clinton nominee who was a lesbian. Next the author explains how the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy in the military came about with Bill Clinton. An interesting fact was that fewer than half of all Americans support gay marriage which makes it difficult for politicians to speak on it.

This article would be useful to me because it gives me some statistics to compare and useful information that I could use in my paper. I chose this article because it was interesting to me. I found a few things to be a surprise to me but for the most part the article was informative and helpful. It gave real life examples of how gay and lesbian people are treated and how they affect politics and other things such as entertainment.