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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 670
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Randy Shilts
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-12-16
Total Pages: 860
ISBN-13: 1497683157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history” of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On (The New York Times Book Review). Published during the same year the American military instituted Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and eighteen years before President Barack Obama repealed it, Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark work of social justice and a searing indictment of the military establishment’s historic bigotry toward its gay servicemen and women. Randy Shilts’s eye-opening book describes the bravery, both exceptional and everyday, not only of gay soldiers throughout history, but also of gay men and women serving in our modern military. With each anecdote and investigation, Shilts systematically dismantles the arguments against allowing gays to serve in the military. At once a history of the American military and an account of the gay rights movement, Conduct Unbecoming is a remarkable testament to the progress achieved for gays in the military—and a revealing look at how far we have yet to go.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 1088
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Craig A. Rimmerman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1135638330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1996. From 1980 to 1990 nearly 17,000 service members were discharged from the military because of their homosexuality. This book places the debate of homosexual military service in its historical, theoretical, and political context. Timely and compelling, with all the court options in the highly published cases of Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, Gay Rights, Military Wrongs, reports on the state of prejudice and discrimination facing today's homosexual military personnel and their prospects for future equality.
Author: Allan Berube
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0743210719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the many histories of fighting men and women in World War II, little has been written about the thousands of homosexuals who found themselves fighting two wars--one for their country, the other for their own survival as targets of a military policy that sought their discharge as "undesirables." To write this long overdue chapter of American history, Allan Bérubé spent ten years interviewing gay and lesbian veterans, unearthed hundreds of wartime letters between gay GIs, and obtained thousands of pages of newly declassified government documents. While some gay and lesbian soldiers collapsed under the fear of being arrested, interrogated, discharged, and publicly humiliated, many drew strength from deep wartime friendships. Relying on their own secret culture of slang, body language, and "camp" to find each other and build spontaneous communities, they learned, both on and off the battlefield, to be proud of their contribution and of who they were.--From publisher description.
Author: Gary Lehring
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2003-06-24
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1592130356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the military defined homosexuality and the ways that shaped the gay and lesbian identity and movements.
Author: Susan Gluck Mezey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2007-03-27
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0742568520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Queers in Court, Susan Gluck Mezey examines the contemporary battle for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, tracing the evolution of issues from same sex marriage and privacy rights to military service and employment discrimination. By combining analyses of nearly three hundred cases from both federal and state courts with detailed explorations of the paths these issues have taken through legislative and executive bodies, she provides the most comprehensive analysis of queer rights in law and policy to date.
Author: Martha Louise Deutscher
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2017-02-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1612348130
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Screening the System shows how security clearance practices, including everything from background checks and fingerprinting to urinalysis and the polygraph, provide insight into the way we think about privacy, national security, patriotism, and the state"--
Author: Richard A. Posner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 0674042255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSexual drives are rooted in biology, but we don’t act on them blindly. Indeed, as the eminently readable judge and legal scholar Richard Posner shows, we make quite rational choices about sex, based on the costs and benefits perceived. Drawing on the fields of biology, law, history, religion, and economics, this sweeping study examines societies from ancient Greece to today’s Sweden and issues from masturbation, incest taboos, date rape, and gay marriage to Baby M. The first comprehensive approach to sexuality and its social controls, Posner’s rational choice theory surprises, explains, predicts, and totally absorbs.
Author: Lillian Faderman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 816
ISBN-13: 1451694113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fight for gay, lesbian and trans civil rights is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. Based on rigorous research and more than 150 interviews, The Gay Revolution tells this unfinished story not through dry facts but through dramatic accounts of passionate struggles, with all the sweep, depth and intricacies only an award-winning activist, scholar and novelist like Lillian Faderman can evoke. A defining account, this is the most complete and authoritative book of its kind.
