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Last Updated: Aug 28, 2009 |
IN THEIR BOOTS will premiere "Silent Partners," this season's moving episode about the unfortunate effects of Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) on Saturday, July 4, 2009 only at www.intheirboots.com.
"Silent Partners" chronicles the sacrifices of "D," Ben, and "Sarah," the same sex partners of three American service members who are rendered invisible by our military's DADT policy. D, Ben, and Sarah proudly share their emotional stories as military spouses living in secrecy.
D understands he is denied the benefit of next-of-kin notification and lives with the constant fear that his partner will be injured or killed in Iraq and the Army never notifying him. Ben must disappear whenever his partner prepares for or returns home from deployment. Sarah is an expert at navigating "Don't Ask Don't Tell" but still struggles with her impersonal and "clinical" phone conversations with her partner in Iraq. "Silent Partners" is a powerful look at their unintended consequence of love, commitment, and patriotism while our nation is at war.
"Don't Ask Don't Tell" is the only federal law that mandates firing of a person based on their sexual orientation. Since its introduction in 1993, almost 13,000 American service members have been discharged. There are at least 65,000 active duty American service members who live under the constant threat of discharge. The number of partners who wait for their safe return is unknown. For a preview, please visit: http://blip.tv/file/2304517
To date, IN THEIR BOOTS has premiered over 16 episodes in its effort to raise awareness of the sacrifices of service members and their families as our country continues to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each episode is available for free viewing online at www.intheirboots.com and is also distributed to 63 million homes nationwide via cable and public access stations.
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