Not news per se, but the Victory Fund has put together a nice video of LGBT women in politics. In a constitutional challenge to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), the Department of Justice filed a brief supporting the current DADT law. Several experts on DADT are claiming the Obama administration misrepresented their views in the brief. Army Secretary John McHugh stated that soldiers still can be discharged for saying they are gay, clarifying his statement from earlier in the week when he implied that such discharges had been suspended. President Obama used his power of recess appointments to appoint lesbian law professor Chai Feldblum and three others to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. An unknown senator had previously put a hold on Feldblum’s nomination. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin struck down a law that barred transgender people from receiving medical care, including hormone therapy