>> josh seefried is an air force officer, cofounder of outserve, and editor of "our time." he discusses "our time" was with the book's contributors at the new york public library. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good evening everybody. thank you for braving the weather tonight and joining us here at the new york public library. this program is part of the library's lgbt initiative which was started about two years ago and is a combination of the programming, collection support and fundraising to highlight the library's lgbt historical collections. many people don't know that the new public library is one of the greatest archives of the history of lgbt, civil rights in the country. and really our initiative is to bring those collections to really mass audience, both for new yorkers and online around the world. we are really, really pleased to have you all with us this evening. i'm going to and reduce you one by one. josh seefried is currently an active duty air force officer and 2009 graduate of the air force academy and operate under the pseudonym jd smith trying t

josh seefried is an active duty air force officer. co-founder and co-director, and he was an invited guest at the presidential signing to repeal don't ask don't tell. jonathan mill is a staff sergeant electronic technician for the u.s. air force stationed in washington d.c.. he is first executive editor, kathryn miller was a cadet at west point until she resigned in protest. she worked as one about serve's main focus persons during the fight to repeal don't ask don't tell and escorting lady gaga at the music video awards and is serving on the board of directors. danny fernandez was a land corporal in the u.s. marine corps, separation for the marines. he has worked for the repeal of don't ask don't tell. sewell chan is deputy editor of the new york times. previously washington economic correspondent and founding bureau chief of the city room news block and metropolitan transportation and city hall. thank you for being with us. thanks. >> thank you for coming tonight. possible to have a great discussion. i have better discussions with a

my name is josh seefried, first looking and has just air force. i'm her station at mcguire air force base, about two hours south of here. i'm a cost analyst and a financial measure person for the air force. might expect with don't ask, don't tell is very interesting but i graduate from air force academy in 2009 and shortly after went to my training and was blacked out by my instruct instructor, changing my test scores, harassing me constantly. with help of the legal network attorney my instructor and that instructor end up turning around an outing me. i was removed from my job. they took away my ability to act with computer i worked in the chaplain's office during this time, and secretary gates met with this new policy, the third party outings were not allowed anymore, that kind of stop the process against me personally the kind of during this process i got from tasha i get so flustered with don't ask, don't tell producer to turn around and help create outserve and kind of a network where we could start networks together and kind of selectively vo