Gay Activist Dan Choi Hospitalized for Breakdown

“Last Friday, [gay military activist] Lt. Dan Choi was admitted to the psychiatric ward at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Brockton, Mass., telling supporters in an e-mail that he had experienced a “breakdown and anxiety attack.” Choi, who had chained himself to the White House fence three times in protest of the law that bans gays from openly serving in the military, said all veterans carry “human burdens.” … “My guess is that [Choi] has something in his genes or in his background of either being depressed or anxious,” said [professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University] Dr. Una McCann. “The campaign he has been waging has been extra stressful and my guess is he has not been getting sleep and it has influenced his ability to cope.””