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Gay military campaigner Dan Choi hospitalised (PinkNews)

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Gay rights campaigner Dan Choi has been hospitalised following a breakdown.

The Iraq veteran, who became the most visible face in the fight to repeal the US ban on out gay soldiers, said he was in the care of a military hospital.

In an email to LGBT bloggers Rex Wockner and Pam Spaulding, he wrote: “I was involuntarily committed to the Brockton MA Veterans Hospital Psychiatric Ward on Friday Morning after experiencing a breakdown and anxiety attack.”

He continued: “I did not initially want to publicise this but I now realise it is critical for our community to know several things: veterans gay or straight carry human burdens. . .

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Complete article at Pink News: http://bit.ly/h80IRD