# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-choi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:16:28.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-choi"
name: "Dan Choi"
slug: "dan-choi"
description: "Dan Choi is an American former infantry officer in the United States Army who served in combat in the Iraq War during 2006–2007. He became an LGBT rights activist following his coming out on The Rachel Maddow Show in March 2009 and publicly challenged America's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, which forbade lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) service members from serving openly."
tagline: "American activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Choi_at_Bryant_Park_NYC.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1981-02-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.75
  momentum:             1.428571428571429
  historical:           7.22124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Choi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "دان تشوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Choi"
    title: "Dan Choi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%9F_%D7%A6'%D7%95%D7%99"
    title: "דן צ'וי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8C%84_%EC%B5%9C"
    title: "댄 최"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Choi"
    title: "Dan Choi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%B9%E5%B0%BC%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%B4%94"
    title: "丹尼尔·崔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Choi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2901004"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump