Silent Drums
Adapt, Improvise, Overcome!
Silent Drums: Adapt, Improvise, Overcome!
Past actions inspire future progress. The fight for full LGBTQ equality is far from over! Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus; Bob LeBlanc repeatedly told Marine Corps investigators they “have no right to ask” if he’s homosexual. Those defiant actions helped ignite civil rights movements.
Winning marriage equality was barely the tip of the iceberg.
Due to the current political climate. We have decided to make our book a free download. Please spread the word to those who are interested to learn the true history of gay rights in the military and our fight for gay rights universally.
Read More on the History of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
Silent Drums
Adapt, Improvise, Overcome!
Reminds us of the sacrifices made in the past that we must build on well into the future because LGBTQ people still face often harsh discrimination in many states for employment, housing and medical care. Bob LeBlanc began fighting discrimination in 1965 as a Marine before, during and after 2 Combat tours in Vietnam…now he’s also battling terminal cancer caused by his exposure to Agent Orange.
Staff Sergeant Bob LeBlanc on KTLA News Interview
Sergeant Bob LeBlanc
LGBT Protest Interview
Bob’s life spans the entire length of the LGBTQ civil rights movement and directly involves U. S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who in 1975, for the first time in U.S. history as a judge on the 9th circuit court of appeals issued a restraining order that stopped the Marine Corps from dishonorably discharging him for being Gay; but that didn’t come close to ending his personal struggle for full equality. Bob’s and husband Julio’s story will inspire you to fight ignorance and bigotry!
Author Pam Daniels
The Introduction of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
In 1994, the U.S. adopted “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as the official federal policy on military service by lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals. The rule was discrimination in its purest form and prevented service members from being openly queer without threat of being discharged. DADT was based on the false assumption that the presence of LGBTQ+ individuals in any branch of the military would undermine the ability of people to carry out their duties. Over the course of the policy’s life, thousands of brave service members were discharged simply for who they were and whom they loved.
Join the Human Rights Campaign:
https://www.hrc.org/our-work/stories/repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell
The history of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is an important freedom that brave service men risked their military careers for their rights to be observed. Bob LeBlanc began fighting discrimination in 1965 as a Marine before, during and after 2 Combat tours in Vietnam. Bob’s life spans the entire length of the LGBT civil rights movement and is an important historically accurate book on American history on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and LGBT rights.
Silent Drums
Adapt, Improvise, Overcome!
Due to the current political climate. We have decided to make our book a free download. Please spread the word to those who are interested to learn the true history of gay rights in the military and our fight for gay rights universally.
Silent Drums
Adapt, Improvise, Overcome!
Bob’s and husband Julio’s story will inspire you to fight ignorance and bigotry! Silent Drums gives the historic story on gay rights in the military. Learn the story behind Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
Due to the current political climate. We have decided to make our book free download. Please spread the word to those who are interested to learn the true history of gay rights in the military and our fight for gay rights universally.
