Claim: Zoe Dunning announced she was lesbian after another service member announced they were homosexual as well, leading to Dunning being recommended for honorable discharge.
Evidence: In January 1993, while a student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, she announced her homosexuality at a rally in support of Petty Officer Keith Meinhold, saying, "I am both a naval officer and a lesbian, and I refuse to live a lie anymore." On June 10, 1993, a three-member Navy administrative board recommended that she be honorably discharged despite arguments that the action violated a federal judge's ruling the previous winter. Meinhold acknowledged his gay status on ABC's World News Tonight on May 19, 1992. Keith Meinhold (born c. 1963) is a veteran of the US Navy who successfully challenged the Navy's attempt to discharge him for coming out as gay in 1992 and ended his Navy career in 1996, one of the first openly gay U.S. service members to be honorably discharged.