Ask & tell : gay and lesbian veterans speak out /
Estes, Steve, 1972-
Ask & tell : gay and lesbian veterans speak out / Ask and tell by Steve Estes. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. The greatest generation -- 2. Korea and the Cold War -- 3. Vietnam -- 4. The Academies -- 5. The women's war for inclusion -- 6. The Gulf War -- 7. The ban -- 8. Out ranks -- 9. Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq -- Appendix 1: A note on oral history and editing interviews -- Appendix 2: interviewees.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell was the directive of President Clinton's 1993 military policy regarding gay and lesbian soldiers. This volume recovers the lost voices of those who served in silence, offering a rich chronicle of the history of gay and lesbian service in the U.S. military from World War II to the Iraq War. Drawing on more than 50 interviews with gay and lesbian veterans, Estes charts the evolution of policy toward homosexuals in the military over the past 65 years, uncovering the ways that silence about sexuality and military service has affected the identities of gay veterans. Far from u.
9780807889855 0807889857
Gay military personnel--History.--United States
Gay military personnel--United States--Interviews.
Oral history.
HISTORY--Military--Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Military Science.
Gay military personnel.
Oral history.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Interviews.
UB418.G38
355.0086/640973
Ask & tell : gay and lesbian veterans speak out / Ask and tell by Steve Estes. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. The greatest generation -- 2. Korea and the Cold War -- 3. Vietnam -- 4. The Academies -- 5. The women's war for inclusion -- 6. The Gulf War -- 7. The ban -- 8. Out ranks -- 9. Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq -- Appendix 1: A note on oral history and editing interviews -- Appendix 2: interviewees.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell was the directive of President Clinton's 1993 military policy regarding gay and lesbian soldiers. This volume recovers the lost voices of those who served in silence, offering a rich chronicle of the history of gay and lesbian service in the U.S. military from World War II to the Iraq War. Drawing on more than 50 interviews with gay and lesbian veterans, Estes charts the evolution of policy toward homosexuals in the military over the past 65 years, uncovering the ways that silence about sexuality and military service has affected the identities of gay veterans. Far from u.
9780807889855 0807889857
Gay military personnel--History.--United States
Gay military personnel--United States--Interviews.
Oral history.
HISTORY--Military--Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Military Science.
Gay military personnel.
Oral history.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Interviews.
UB418.G38
355.0086/640973