{"id":119453,"date":"2023-04-21T12:15:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T17:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=119453"},"modified":"2023-04-21T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T17:17:58","slug":"retired-career-navy-veteran-activist-bad-brad-berkwitt-speaks-out-on-behalf-of-the-lgbtq-members-he-served-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=119453","title":{"rendered":"Retired Career Navy Veteran &#038; Activist &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt Speaks Out on Behalf of the LGBTQ Members He Served With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I served with many shipmates both male &amp; female who had to hide the fact they were part of the LGBTQ community when the policy was you would get kicked out. Then it was &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They were amazing human beings who loved their country.<\/p>\n<p>I will always be an ally! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oSLfS4x35n\">pic.twitter.com\/oSLfS4x35n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Official Account of (Activist) &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt (@BadBradRSR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BadBradRSR\/status\/1649453784404295699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I served with many shipmates both male &amp; female who had to hide the fact they were part of the LGBTQ community when the policy was you would get kicked out. Then it was &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221;. They were amazing human beings who loved their country. I will always be an ally! pic.twitter.com\/oSLfS4x35n \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22247,18030],"tags":[30785],"class_list":["post-119453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-columns","category-world-news","tag-retired-career-navy-veteran-activist-bad-brad-berkwitt-speaks-out-on-behalf-of-the-lgbtq-members-he-served-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119453"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}