From mills@aztec.al.bldrdoc.gov Thu Jun 9 19:47:45 1994 Received: from indst.indstate.edu by vector.casti.com (NX5.67d/5.931230) id AA22668; Thu, 9 Jun 94 19:47:45 -0400 Received: from amber.indstate.edu by indst.indstate.edu (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with TCP; Thu, 09 Jun 94 18:48:41 EST Received: from AMBER/MERCURY by amber.indstate.edu (Mercury 1.11); Thu, 9 Jun 94 18:46:24 GMT-5 Received: from MERCURY by AMBER (Mercury 1.11); Thu, 9 Jun 94 18:43:18 GMT-5 Resent-From: "Thomas W. Holt Jr." Resent-To: QRD@vector.casti.com Resent-Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 18:43:11 EST Received: from MERCURY by AMBER (Mercury 1.11); Thu, 9 Jun 94 17:35:18 GMT-5 Received: from BROWNVM.brown.edu by amber.indstate.edu (Mercury 1.11); Thu, 9 Jun 94 17:35:12 GMT-5 Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU by BROWNVM.brown.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2029; Thu, 09 Jun 94 18:09:33 EDT Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@BROWNVM) by BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 9328; Thu, 9 Jun 1994 15:29:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 13:36:25 -0700 Reply-To: Mills Mike Sender: Information Repository for News of Interest to GLB* Folk From: Mills Mike Subject: Navy Bans Gay Discrimination X-To: GLB-NEWS@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list GLB-NEWS Message-Id: <253823861A7@amber.indstate.edu> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Navy Secretary John Dalton has banned discrimination against the service's civilian employees based on sexual orientation, the Navy said Wednesday. The directive applies to the service's 252,000 civilian employees, and is in line with regulations issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a spokesman said. The Navy is the first armed service to issue such a statement, but others are expected to follow suit. The spokesman said the Navy apparently is the first service branch to get its paperwork completed. ``Our continued success requires that each civilian employee and applicant be afforded the opportunity to excel without regard to his or her race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age or disability,'' Dalton said in a statement issued May 23. The statement does not apply to the Navy's 480,000 uniformed men and women, who are covered under the ``don't ask, don't tell'' rules issued last year by the Pentagon. Those rules provide for the discharge of gays and lesbians who engage in homosexual activity.