Anti-Defamation LeagueA WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute

The Struggle for LGBT Inclusion

Welcome or Unwelcome?

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Kendall Bailey

Excluded from military service in 2006 under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which was repealed four years after Bailey’s discharge

James Dale

Excluded from membership in Boy Scouts of America in 1990, an action that was upheld in a 2000 United States Supreme Court decision

David Wilson

Excluded from the institution of marriage until the 1994 decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, which awarded marriage equality to same-sex couples in Massachusetts