US Military Underplays Anti-Gay Violence

A draft report prepared for the University of California research program shows that despite official Pentagon assertions that the military takes anti-gay harassment as seriously as harassment against women and racial minorities, the military's policies and practices reveal markedly different enforcement and deterrent efforts for these three forms of abuse. [...]

...according to Sharon Terman, author of the new 39-page report, the Pentagon's policies and practices all demonstrate far more meaningful efforts on the part of the military to prevent racial and sexual harassment than anti-gay harassment. (source)

In my opinion, it's not going to be possible to stop the harassment of gay members in the military until the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is done away with. How can you stop harassment against something that you aren't even suppose to talk about? They claim that soldiers who are harassed for being gay, or should I say, being accused of being gay, have the right to complain to a superior office to report the harassment.

Now I ask you, if you were that soldier, gay or straight, would you report such harassment? Think about it. Before you know it, there may be an investigation against you for the mere mention of it.