Lieutenant Dan Choi who has just been di
Lieutenant Dan Choi who has just been dismissed from the US Army for “being openly gay”, declares that he will try to protest his case during President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Los Angeles, at a gay protest rally in Hollywood on May 26, 2009. California’s Supreme Court upheld a referendum that outlawed gay marriage, but said 18,000 same-sex weddings carried out before the ban would remain valid. Gay and lesbian activists had sought to overturn the result of a November referendum, known as Proposition 8, which redefined marriage in California as being unions between men and women only. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)