Quote of the Day:
May 18, 2013
“If you’re going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.”
-Jayne Mansfield, American actor, as quoted by Paula Munier in “On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Most Infamous Blonds,” 2004
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“Never again; never forget”
Twenty-three years ago, I stood with a crowd of mourners before an open grave in Washington’s Congressional Cemetery as we chanted, “Never forget Leonard Matlovich.”
I didn’t forget.
In fact, with the end of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy this week, I’ve had good reason to remember the gay man who first stood up for the right to serve openly in the U.S. armed forces back in 1975.
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