Something new under the sun will happen in Washington DC this Saturday in the Gay Pride Parade. For the first time in US History, a U.S. Armed Forces Color Guard will march alongside rainbow flags in a gay pride parade.

The Department of Defense has authorized what military gay-rights groups and organizers of the Capital Pride parade say is a first nationwide, a color guard that will present the red, white and blue as well as flags of each branch of the military. To read the full article in the military publication, Stars and Stripes, Click Here.