Original upload date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 01:08:22 GMT
As part of an ongoing effort to document service experiences in the modern era, the Ohio History Connection presents Standing Together: Ohio Veterans and the War on Terror. This project was conducted
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in 2015 and includes members of the United States Army, Air Force and Marines serving in full-time and reservist capacities.
Stephen Snyder-Hill was born October 21, 1970. He was a soldier in the United States Army, and is currently an author, lecturer, and LGBT rights activist. He served under the United States Army's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy and fought against the Defense of Marriage Act in collaboration with Freedom to Marry and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. He is the author of Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement.
Snyder-Hill enlisted in the United States Army in 1988. He deployed with the 1st Armored Division to the Persian Gulf War in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait before his honorable discharge in 1996. He enlisted in the Army Reserves 2001 and was deployed to Iraq in 2010. In order to serve he had to go back into the closet because of the Army's don't ask, don't tell policy. He came under scrutiny during his deployment, and ultimately came out, when he sent a question to republican presidential candidates during a debate asking whether they would "circumvent the progress that's been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military".
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