That month, Clinton implemented a Department of Defense directive known as " Don't Ask, Don't Tell ", which allowed gay men and women to serve in the armed services provided they kept their sexuality a secret, and forbade the military from inquiring about an individual's sexual orientation.

On September 21, 1996, barely three years after the " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " imbroglio, and further straining relations with the LGBT community, Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ), which defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman.

This is the policy now known as " Don't Ask, Don't Tell ".

The full name of the policy at the time was " Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue.

" The " Don't Ask " provision mandated that military or appointed officials will not ask about or require members to reveal their sexual orientation.

On October 12, 2010, she granted an immediate worldwide injunction prohibiting the Department of Defense from enforcing the " Don't Ask Don't Tell " policy and ordered the military to suspend and discontinue any investigation or discharge, separation, or other proceedings based on it.

Following passage of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, the Justice Department asked the Ninth Circuit to suspend LCR's suit in light of the legislative repeal.

The average age of the officers whose names were listed as signing the letter was 74, the oldest was 98, and Servicemembers United noted that " only a small fraction of these officers have even served in the military during the ' Don't Ask, Don't Tell ' period, much less in the 21st century military.

* 2010 – The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

For example, in 1980, a company called " Don't Ask Software ", founded by Randy Simon, created a version called " Abuse " for the Apple II, Atari, and Commodore PCs, which verbally abused the user based on the user's input.

* 2011 – The United States ends its " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

* Don't Ask Me If I Love ( 1971 )

Akkerman's " House of the King " ( from the Focus Plays Focus album ) was the title theme of Don't Ask Me, a science-based British TV show of the 1970s that made household names of Dr. Magnus Pyke and Professor David Bellamy.

That same year saw the release of PiL's first compilation album The Greatest Hits, So Far, which featured one new song, the environmentally themed single " Don't Ask Me ".

) who helped overturn " Don't Ask ; Don't Tell "

Kurosawa has commented on the lasting sense of loss he felt at his brother's death and the chapter of his autobiography that describes it — written nearly half a century after the event — is titled, " A Story I Don't Want to Tell.

The city is also the home of several talk shows, including former The Oprah Winfrey Show on WLS-TV, while Chicago Public Radio produces programs such as PRI's This American Life and NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!

The " Don't Tell " stated that a member may be discharged for claiming to be a homosexual or bisexual or making a statement indicating a tendency towards or intent to engage in homosexual activities.

* The NPR weekly news quiz show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!

Other songs performed by Amos include The Doors ' " People are Strange ", Depeche Mode's " Personal Jesus ", Joni Mitchell's " The Circle Game ", Madonna's " Live to Tell " and " Like a Prayer ", Björk's " Hyperballad ", Led Zeppelin's " When the Levee Breaks " ( which she debuted in Austin, Texas, just after the events of Hurricane Katrina ), Kate Bush's " And Dream of Sheep " and Crowded House's " Don't Dream It's Over ", dedicating it to drummer Paul Hester who had died a week before.

* Don't Tell a Soul ( 1989 )

Songwriter and labor singer Bucky Halker includes the Talmadge version, entitled " Labor's Battle Song ," on his CD Don't Want Your Millions ( Revolting Records 2000 ).

The trio's 2000 studio recording, entitled " Don't Be Scared Anymore ", received reviews of " This album is like the soundtrack to the world's coolest vacation " from All About Jazz and " Jazz-rock in the truest sense " from Allmusic.

Slim's poem, " The Lumberjack's Prayer " was recorded by Studs Terkel on labor singer Bucky Halker's CD, " Don't Want Your Millions " ( Revolting Records, 2000 ).

With other turn-of-the-millennium films such as Fight Club, In the Company of Men ( 1997 ), American Psycho ( 2000 ) and Boys Don't Cry ( 1999 ), American Beauty " raises the broader, widely explored issue of masculinity in crisis ".

She appeared in five of Madonna's music videos -– " Papa Don't Preach ," " True Blue " ( both 1986 ), " Justify My Love " ( 1990 ), " Deeper and Deeper " ( 1992 ) and " Music " ( 2000 ).

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

* Don't Try This at Home ( April 2000 ) ( recorded 1999 ) ( live )

* Don't Try This @ Home Either ( 2000 ) ( recorded 1999 ) ( live-From the Vaults, Series 3 )

The group scored a huge hit single with " Dance Tonight ", and a warm hit with " Don't Mess With My Man ", and their one and only self-titled album was certified Gold a few months after its release in 2000.

Lights ( Body ) ( 2000 – 2002 ), a video installation featuring static shots of the light effects inside an empty dance club with the bass pulse of the ‘ Hacker Remix ' of ‘ Don't be Light ' by Air, is the first work by the photographer using the medium of film.

After another five-year layoff, Zevon signed with industry veteran Danny Goldberg's Artemis Records and again rebounded with the mortality-themed 2000 release Life'll Kill Ya, containing the hymn-like " Don't Let Us Get Sick " and an austere version of Steve Winwood's 1980s hit " Back in the High Life Again ".

** “ Big Girls Don't Cry ,” written by Alan Grant, art by Patrick Goddard, in 2000 AD # 2011 ( 2010 )

Don't Stop ( 1996 ), and Famous in the Last Century ( 2000 ) consisted almost entirely of cover versions, ( with the only exception being the title track to the latter ).

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They ?, a review aggregator covering the entire history of cinema, lists In the Mood for Love as the 197th most acclaimed film of all time, making it also the most universally acclaimed film released anywhere in the world since its release in 2000.

* The Bran Flakes-I Don't Have A Friend ( 2000, Lomo )

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

Johnson began to cut back on his concert appearances in 1999, but still found the wherewithal to cut Don't Let Your Daddy Know ( Live in Japan 2000 ) the following year.

* Don't Let Your Daddy Know ( Live in Japan 2000 ) ( 2000 )

In 2000, at the dawn of the new millennium, Anger began screening a new short film, the anti-smoking Don't Smoke That Cigarette, followed a year later by The Man We Want to Hang, which comprised images of Aleister Crowley's paintings that had been exhibited at a temporary exhibition in Bloomsbury, London.

* G. Wächtershäuser, " Origin of Life: Life as We Don't Know It ", Science, 289 ( 5483 ) ( 25 August 2000 ) pp. 1307 – 1308.

* 2000: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper ( 1999-2000 strips )

He would later appear in three other Sandler films, Little Nicky ( 2000 ) where he plays himself and is covered in bees, Click ( 2006, as the main character's father ), and You Don't Mess with the Zohan ( 2008 ), again playing himself.