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Gabriel Arana

Gabriel Arana is a senior editor at The American Prospect. His articles on gay rights, immigration, and media have appeared in publications including The Nation, Salon, The Advocate, and The Daily Beast. To contact him, visit his website.

 

 

 

Recent Articles

The Little Picture: A Promise Kept.

Gabriel AranaDec 22, 2010

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(Courtesy of Sen. Harry Reid's Office)

Sen. Harry Reid returns gay-rights advocate Dan Choi's West Point ring, which Reid promised he would return after "don't ask, don't tell" was repealed. "Five months after I promised to repeal #DADT, I’m so happy to give back this West Point ring to @ltdanchoi," he tweeted.

Sustaining Dalal.

Gabriel AranaDec 22, 2010

A follow-up on Gershom Gorenberg's piece last month about the plight of a young girl in the West Bank in need of medical attention.

At 10:03 on Monday morning, Osama Rusrus phoned from Beit Umar in the West Bank with wonderful news: His wife Sunya and daughter Dalal had crossed through the checkpoint into Jerusalem, on their way to Alyn Hospital.

It took nearly two months of wrangling with the Israeli authorities, especially a security agency that never signs its name.

Asking and Telling

The fight over DADT was always about the normalization of homosexuality.

Gabriel AranaDec 21, 2010
Rep. Barney Frank hugs Speaker Nancy Pelosi during an enrollment ceremony for the bill to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Today, the president will sign a bill repealing "don't ask, don't tell," the 1993 law that bars gays from serving openly in the military. Given the amount of public support for allowing gay people to serve openly (over two-thirds of Americans favor repeal), it had largely become a question of when and how -- and not if -- the law would be repealed. All except the most committed opponents had abandoned arguing on the merits; they quibbled about process, timing, and implementation.

The Little Picture: Joseph's Hospital.

Gabriel AranaDec 21, 2010

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(Flickr/cobalt123)

St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, which lost its affiliation with the Catholic Church after it performed an abortion to save a mother's life.

The Little Picture: A START Warning.

Gabriel AranaDec 20, 2010

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