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Allowed to Serve, Forbidden to Love: The Queer Cost of Military Pride

This isn’t your flag-waving Fourth of July.

It’s an unapologetic reckoning with what this country asks of its queer service members—and what it tries to erase when we're done.

From the damage of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to the quiet erasure of heroes like Harvey Milk, this episode pulls no punches. We speak truth for every queer vet who was told to disappear, for every life lost to silence, and for every warrior who fought a war at home long after the one overseas ended.

If you’ve ever served, loved someone who did, or questioned the cost of being both proud and punished—this one’s for you.

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