While a U.S. military base in Afghanistan has already celebrated gay pride in a photo applauded around the world this week, here at home military academies are for the first time able to let their students do the same. Six months after the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," military schools are hosting historic Pride Week events in a first for the United States.

Now this is a pleasant surprise! Maybe we shouldn’t be shocked, but we definitely are.

Norwich University, the oldest private military college in the United States, will be celebrating their first gay pride week!

More after the jump!

History is being made once again in the post-DADT world. After the jump, read about one military dominated college campus and the students (and soon-to-be military officers!) that are creating a space for LGBT people and their allies.