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Press Release: Knights Out

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WEST POINT LGBT ALUMNI GROUP OFFERS SUPPORT TO ALMA MATER
Organizers offer partnership with the nation’s oldest military academy as the end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” quickly approaches.

March 16, 2009 – A courageous group of America’s best and brightest are once again answering their call to duty, honor, and country: by coming out of the closet.

“Knights Out,” an association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) West Point Alumni and their supporters emerged from anonymity today to support thousands of LGBT Soldiers currently serving in the armed forces, and to educate the current military leadership on the importance of accepting and honoring the sacrifices and selfless service of their LGBT soldiers and officers.

KNIGHTS OUT FACT SHEET

The group’s activities and goals will include:

Financially supporting and providing speakers for AOG and West Point efforts to educate cadets and graduates in sexual diversity
Providing a web-based forum (http://www.KnightsOut.org ) for furthering discourse on this topic among Army leaders
Participating in West Point AOG’s upcoming (annual) Diversity Leadership Conference
Providing LGBT graduates who have been disenfranchised in the past with a way to reconnect to the AOG
Establishing a Knights Out affinity group through the Association of Graduates
Serving as positive role models to cadets and graduates

The academy has been ranked in the top tier of National Colleges in the US News and World Report, and the Princeton Review. Knights Out believes that its very existence will help the Academy continue to recruit America’s best and brightest.