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Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement

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When “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the official U.S. policy on gays serving Within the military, was once repealed in September 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was once serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a culture of fear and secrecy for gay soldiers, Snyder-Hill submitted a video to a Republican number one debate held two days after the repeal. Within the video he asked for the Republicans’ thoughts in regards to the repeal and their plans, if any, to extend spousal benefits to legally married gay and lesbian soldiers. His video was once booed by the audience on national tv.

Soldier of Change captures not only the media frenzy that followed that moment, placing Snyder-Hill at the vanguard of this brand new civil rights movement, but additionally his twenty-year journey as a gay man Within the army: from self-loathing to self-acceptance to a very powerful battle of his life—protecting the disenfranchised. Since that time, Snyder-Hill has traveled the country along with his husband, giving interviews on major news networks and speaking at universities, community centers, and pride parades, a champion of LGBT equality. 

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