Where Are Our Lunch Counters?

[Butterfly]

Where Are Our Lunch Counters?
Pam's House Blend
by: Autumn Sandeen
Tue Nov 23, 2010 at 08:00:00 AM EST


http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/18051/where-are-our-lunch-counters


Where does the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community have equivalents to lunch counters? Where are we, as a people belonging to a community, exposed to an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality?

With regards to US Code Title 10, Subtitle G, Section 654: Policy Concerning Homosexuality in the Armed Forces {the federal Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) code}, the LGBT equivalents lunch counters are military recruiting offices. Just as lunch counters were visible locations that symbolized segregation and discrimination for African-American community members, so too are military recruiting offices visible locations that symbolize discrimination.