Orange County Equality California (OCEC) is organizing a rally supporting Lt. Dan Choi who was ejected from the Army National Guard for coming out on the Rachel Maddow show. Details of the event follow:

Time: May 7, 2009 from 2pm to 3pm
Location: Bridge over Campus Dr. (Irvine, CA)
Street: 4255 Campus Drive
City/Town: Irvine, CA 92612
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps…
Bring Signs. Bring Friends.

More on the protest available here.

Lt. Choi’s original appearance on Rachel Maddow below.

Lt. Choi will be appearing on Rachel Maddow again tonight.

Dan Choi, co-founder of KnightsOut, a group campaigning to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t tell (DADT) spoke recently to PinkNews.co.uk on how the firing of gay linguists may have undermined national security in the lead up to 9/11.

“On Monday, September 10th 2001, a message was intercepted by the State Department: tomorrow is zero hour. Despite its simplicity, nobody was able to translate it. Any of the dozens of linguists already discharged for being gay at the time would have done so easily.”

Choi, a former infantry platoon leader for the New York Army National guard, has been outspoken against DADT since coming out of the closet on the Rachel Maddow Show In March:

Since the introduction of DADT in 1994, over 1200 services members have been ejected from the military, including 60 Arab linguists.