Selective Service

Registration with the United States Selective Service is required of all male citizens and permanent residents within 30 days of turning eighteen, even if you may not be eligible to serve in the military. You need to register even if you are gay, bi, or trans.

Failure to register with the Selective Service before the age of twenty-six will result in a permanent loss of eligibility for all federal Title IV education financial aid including Pell Grants, federal campus based aid programs, and the federal student loan program. Federal financial aid accounts for over 90% of the money available for education beyond high school, both for college and vocational training
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Homosexuals in the Armed Forces

On June 28th we remember the police riot with which the clients of a NY bar said no more to police mistreatment, and since 1969 more cities and countries have been adding themselves to this commemoration. There are also dates to demand the rights of women, African-origin groups, and other traditionally mistreated social sectors.

We have advanced! Every day more spaces give less resistance to differences, to sexual orientations and gender identities. On of the institutions where it has been most difficult to find respect and tolerance is the Armed Forces.

Two weeks ago, the Minister of National Defense of Uruguay, José Bayardi, at the close of the seminar on "The military institution and the State of Law: Military Justice and Discipline." assured that the fact of homosexuality does not alter the honor of the Armed Forces, recognizing that within them there are persons with these sexual orientations: Homosexuality o Homogenitality

With these affirmations we find that there are advances in the change of imagination, without abandoning the multiple forms of masculinity and homosexuality also awaiting that transsexual can enjoy being within and can act within the military institution without staying within the gender roles imposed by culture, religion and society.

Germán Humberto Rincón Perfetti
Bogotá - Colombia