The Battle of Fort Bragg Gays in uniform are still fighting for spousal benefits

摘要

"Ourur journey is not com-plete," said Barack Obama in one of the more memorable lines of his second Inauguration speech, "until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law." Those words have special meaning for Ashley Broadway, a lesbian married to Heather Mack, a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel at Fort Bragg, N.C. Broadway and Mack felt the Army had been making steady progress toward equality until Ashley found herself at the funeral of a friend last fall.