Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military - Vietnam to the Persian Gulf
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (856 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0788154168 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 784 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five years of interviews with nearly 1,100 gay service people have uncovered stories of heroism, persecution, & increasing resistance while documenting the creation of a vast gay subculture within the armed forces. With thousand of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Shilts offers the first in-depth look at the fierce purges of gays in the military over the past 30 years. An investigation of the situation of lesbians & gays in the military over the past three decades, revealing for the first time that some of the most celebrated soldiers in American history were homosexual. Best seller!
"Whose conduct?" according to FrKurt Messick. I was raised on military bases for much of my younger life, with a career-military father who, when this topic became a big topic in the early 1990s, said to me: 'I don't see what the big issue is with this. They were always there, and we knew that.' That was a surprise to me.Randy Shilts, better known perhaps for his book (later constructed into a telefilm) 'And the Band Played On', about the AIDS crisis, turned his journalistic eye and talents to one of the last great approved discriminations in America -- that of the institutionalised disapproval of the military (one of the largest economic forces in Ameri. Conduct Unbecoming Indeed -- a Psychotherapist's Review David C. Young For 20 years, I've worked, as a psychotherapist with active duty military & their families, as well with as vets. I recently moved my practice, and of course, I connected with a local military base. I was asked if I'd worked with GLBT. (Believe me, THAT never happened before.) I have a fair amount of GLBT experience, though much of it in the early 1990's. Since then, I've done less, as I was more recently practicing in an extremely conservative town - socially/culturally, religiously, politically. So I decided to update my general GLBT background and my more limited background with GLBT & the military.Earlier. Conduct Unbecoming Indeed -- a Psychotherapist's Review. For 20 years, I've worked, as a psychotherapist with active duty military & their families, as well with as vets. I recently moved my practice, and of course, I connected with a local military base. I was asked if I'd worked with GLBT. (Believe me, THAT never happened before.) I have a fair amount of GLBT experience, though much of it in the early 1990's. Since then, I've done less, as I was more recently practicing in an extremely conservative town - socially/culturally, religiously, politically. So I decided to update my general GLBT background and my more limited background with GLBT & the military.Earlier