Local (Chicago) man outed online; speaks out about ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

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An Army artilleryman who served two tours of duty in Iraq, 32-year-old Jeff Howe, was recently outed by an online profile and subsequently discharged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
Howe, an Elk Grove Village native, was discharged Aug. 3 by the Army for posting a profile on Connexion.org, an online LGBT community site.

The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network ( SLDN ) reports that online outing cases make up 25 percent of the organization’s total outings so far in 2005. The organization, which first reported about online outings in May 2004, partnered with LGBT sites such as Gay.com/PlanetOut.com and Connexion.org to release precautions for military members using online sites. On Aug. 4, SLDN reported 10 additional online outing cases, including Howe’s.

“In the situation I was in, it just didn’t seem possible that I could get kicked out for it,” Howe told Windy City Times. He added that he was “100 percent” in the closet while enlisted: “I never told anybody.”

http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=9177

Can't you just see some closet case officer getting all hot and sweaty reading gay on-line ads looking for guys in the military?