Out Gay Service Members to Join NoH8 Campaign

As gay and lesbian service members celebrate the end of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy at their first ever professional conference here this weekend, some plan to strike a pose for marriage rights that still are beyond their reach. The NOH8 Campaign will be on hand Friday at the OutServe Armed Forces Leadership Summit to shoot portraits of participants who want to join the movement to overturn Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California. The photographic silent protest features subjects with duct tape over their mouths to symbolize that their voice has been silenced by the ballot measure. More than 13,000 people have joined the protest, from regular people who live in California and across the country to politicians, law enforcement officers, artists and celebrities. Cindy McCain and her daughter Meghan are among the high-profile people featured in the campaign, even though her husband (and Meghan's father) Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) opposes same-sex marriage and led the opposition to repealing DADT in the Senate. http://www.gayapolis.com