Gays in the military book

Through compelling photographs and interviews made over three years on road trips across the US, Vincent Cianni (born ) has created an important historical record of the struggles of gay and lesbian veterans and servicemembers in the US military. Marc Wolinsky and Kenneth Sherrill argue that gays constitute a politically powerless class that has been unjustly deprived of its constitutional right to equal protection under the law.

Vincent Cianni adds to the historical record of the struggles of gays and lesbians in the US military. Gays In The Military: Photographs And Interviews reveals stories of men and women who served in silence in this "apt coda to an experience marked by an evolution from darkness into light." Vincent Cianni adds to the historical record of the struggles of gays and lesbians in the US military.

Gays In The Photographs And Interviews reveals stories of men and women who served in silence in this "apt coda to an experience marked by an evolution from darkness into light."— The New York Times. Explore our list of Gays in the military->United States->Biography Books at Barnes & Noble®. Get your order fast and stress free with free curbside pickup.

In , after serving five and a half years as a carpenter in a North Dakota National Guard engineer unit, Bronson Lemer was ready to leave the military behind. But six months short of completing his commitment to the army, Lemer was deployed on a yearlong tour of duty to Iraq. Leaving college life behind in the Midwest, he yearns for a lost love and quietly dreams of a future as an openly gay man outside the military.

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UChicago Accessibility Resources. Results by Title. Not so, reveals Halley. In order to work through the steps by which the new law was ultimately drafted, she opens with a close reading of the Supreme Court sodomy case which served as the legal and rhetorical model for the policy revisions made in After challenging previous pro-gay arguments against the policy that have failed to expose its most devious and dangerous elements, Halley ends with a persuasive discussion about how it is both unconstitutional and, politically, an act of sustained bad faith.

This knowledgeable and eye-opening analysis of one of the most important public policy debates of the s will interest legal scholars, policymakers, activists, military historians and personnel, as well as citizens concerned about issues of discrimination. The Last Deployment. But most strikingly, he describes the poignant reality faced by gay servicemen and servicewomen, who must mask their identities while serving a country that disowns them.

Often funny, sometimes anguished, The Last Deployment paints a deeply personal portrait of war in the twenty-first century. Officially Gay. In , simply the idea that lesbians and gays should be able to serve openly in the military created a firestorm of protest from right-wing groups and powerful social conservatives that threatened to derail the entire agenda of a newly elected .

Nine short years later, in the wake of September 11, , the Pentagon's suspension of discharge of gay and lesbians went largely overlooked and unremarked by political pundits, news organizations, military experts, religious leaders and gay activists. How can this collective cultural silence be explained?

Officially Gay follows the military's century-long attempt to identify and exclude gays and lesbians. It traces how the military historically constructed definitions of homosexual identity relying upon religious, medical, and psychological discourses that defined homosexuals as evil, degenerate, and unstable, making their risk to national security obvious, and mandating their exclusion from the Armed Services. Officially Gay argues that this process made possible greater regulation and scrutiny of gays and lesbians both in and out of the military while simultaneously helping to create a gay and lesbian political movement and helped shape the direction that movement would take.

Out in Force.

Edited by Gregory M. Herek, Jared B. Jobe, and Ralph M. Can the U. In , this question became the center of a heated debate when Clinton attempted to lift the long-standing ban on gays in the military. This debate persists because the compromise policy "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue," faces serious legal challenges, and is likely to go to the Supreme Court before the end of the decade.

Just below the surface of this debate rages a more general argument about the status of gay people in America. Both sides base their views on assumptions about the consequences of integration. Even defenders of the ban grudgingly acknowledge that homosexuals are fully capable of serving with distinction. Few question gay service members' abilities or patriotism; justifications for the ban are now predicated on heterosexuals' negative reactions.

Out in Force refutes the notions that homosexuality is incompatible with military service and that gay personnel would undermine order and discipline. Leading social science scholars of sexual orientation and the military offer reasoned and comprehensive discussions about military organizations, human sexuality, and attitudes toward individuals and groups. They demonstrate forcefully that the debate is really about the military as an institution, and how that institution will adapt to larger social changes.