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Admission Is Not Disclosure
I had a tribal rainbow tattoo associated with “homosexual admission,” not “homosexual disclosure.” That distinction matters.
Under the military policies surrounding Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, “admission” had a specific historical and administrative meaning. Military records could use terms such as “Homosexual Admission” as the narrative reason for separation.
And as Josh Hawley has argued, silence itself was treated as admission—a powerful illustration of how coercive that system could become. The very policy that supposedly said “don’t ask” could place homosexual service members in an impossible position: remain silent, yet have that silence interpreted against them.
I was harassed, ridiculed, bullied, discriminated against, segregated, and separated. My experience was not simply about whether I “disclosed” something about myself. It was about how the military system identified, categorized, and ultimately separated homosexual service members.
There is a fundamental difference between homosexual admission and homosexual disclosure, and we should not erase that distinction when documenting this history.
My father, may he rest in peace, was a tribal member of the Oklahoma Choctaw Reservation, as were his mother, her father, and generations before them. That heritage is part of my history too.
When the historical language of “homosexual admission” is removed from military records or replaced without preserving what it originally meant, I believe we risk deleting evidence of what actually happened to people like me. These records are not merely bureaucratic terminology—they are historical evidence of discrimination.
Do not rewrite the history. Do not sanitize the terminology. Do not erase the evidence.
We deserve an accurate historical record of what was done to homosexual service members under these policies—and the words used against us matter.
My Tattoo Was a Symbol—And My Silence Did Not Protect Me
My tribal rainbow tattoo on my back was symbolic. It represented who I was, my heritage, and my identity. Yet I was persecuted because of what others believed that symbol meant—even through my silence.
That is the distinction that must not be lost: homosexual admission is not the same as homosexual disclosure.
I did not have to verbally disclose anything for assumptions, accusations, or interpretations to be used against me. Under the culture and enforcement surrounding Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, even silence could be treated as evidence. I was harassed, ridiculed, bullied, discriminated against, segregated, and ultimately separated.
My tattoo became a symbol that others interpreted, and I paid the price for that interpretation.
My father, may he rest in peace, was a tribal member of the Oklahoma Choctaw Reservation, as were his mother, her father, and generations before them. My tribal heritage is part of my history, and that tattoo carried meaning far beyond anyone else's assumptions about it.
My silence did not make the persecution less real. My silence did not erase what happened. And changing the terminology in the historical record does not erase the evidence.
There is a difference between what I admitted, what I disclosed, what others assumed, and what the military recorded. Those distinctions matter—especially when documenting the history of homosexual service members persecuted under Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
History should preserve the truth, not sanitize it.
Josh Hawley, is the senator to missouri, where I was stationed, he may not have been then, but he is now!
I cannot find representation for myself.
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The choctaw are a part of a lot of dark chapters in our united states military, they always seem to rise above!
In Chief Batton's Blog this week, he pauses to honor our Choctaw veterans. He also discusses the Choctaw Code Talkers and their remarkable chapter in our history. Read the full blog at chocta.ws/cb-choctaw-soldier….
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Why do heterosexuals with children merely get to change their expression to where they look like a gay couple to overshadow and silence homosexuals, who suffered at the hands of our government and then society?
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Not only do I have the experience of the separation process during DADT, but I have an honorable discharge as well...
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He's not someone you can easily intimidate, manipulate, or impress with a fancy title.
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Why is the stress relief of the trans community so important when they received social security disability and medicaid to cover their medical where every aspect of their life was covered, while you do not care about the stress relief to veterans lives you systemically destroyed?
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Being attacked for speaking about your lived experience is harassment?
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While people who never went through anything, experienced anything to the level I did, who doesn't even know the full context of our experiences, want to silence us and now compound more harm...
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How long do they plan on ignoring us veterans, they refused to answer our letters, they refuse to acknowledge our posts?
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@Trump
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What has our government done to assure that the veterans who were systemically discriminated for their sexual orientation are not harassed and have more harm compounded on top of them?
@Trump
@ObamaFoundation
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This is a list of psychological tactics in which we're used to psychologically, break veterans down while they awaited their separation process in hopes to achieve a medical discharge.
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Who said that It was okay to do this to me?
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@Trump
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