Welcome to the beta site for Serving in Unsilence!

This is the internet’s only free blog host for LGBT Service Members in the U.S. Armed Forces, and I strive to provide the best services and privacy protection for the American military’s silent minority.

The free features offered are:

• Free blogs!
• Easy to remember address: http://your_blog.unsilence.com/
• Different levels of privacy protection.
• Point-and-click blogging — no HTML experience necessary!
• Attractive admin interface
• Themes for your blog!
• Customize your theme to suit your taste
• 15MB of upload space.
• “Extras” (optional features)
  • Sticky posts
  • Clickable emoticons
  • Embed video into your posts
  • Private messaging between SIU members
  • Spruce up your tooltips
• More to come!

If this isn’t enough for you, there will soon be some additional features available for a small fee (to help recoup the cost of running the site):

• Increase your upload space to 30MB, 45MB, or 60MB!
• Have your self-made theme added for your exclusive use
• Personalized domains for your blog
• Additional Extras added to your blog
• More to come!

Since Serving in Unsilence is operated by an active-duty gay Service Member (”Anonymous Soldier”), the need for confidentiality regarding your identity is very well understood. Keeping that in mind, I have arranged to have payments handled by a gay-friendly third party in order to maintain a buffer of plausible deniability. This third party was the host for the original “Army of 1 in 10″ blog for over a year, and they have been great when it came to maintaining my own anonymity. Even though Serving in Unsilence was too ambitious a project for their capabilities, they continued to assist with getting it set up — despite the fact that they’d be losing me as a web-hosted customer. I have complete confidence in their willingness to keep the Paypal transactions private because they believe that all qualified persons ought to be able to serve.