Today Defense Secretary Robert Gates will go before the Senate Armed Services Committee to reveal the Pentagon’s plan for rolling back the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding gay and lesbian service members. As a first step, Gates is expected to call for no longer discharging people whose sexual orientation is revealed by others.

The policy, implemented by President Bill Clinton in 1993, bars openly gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals from serving in the U.S. military, and prevents the military from asking them about it.

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