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Conduct unbecoming, lesbians and gays in the U.S. military : Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, Randy Shilts

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 767-770) and index

index present

non fiction

Conduct unbecoming

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Randy Shilts

lesbians and gays in the U.S. military : Vietnam to the Persian Gulf

There is a country where citizens are interrogated for long hours and threatened with prison or the loss of their children if they do not cooperate, where citizens are ordered to denounce others, to give information - often entirely fabricated - dispatching people to ignominy and jail. And if they refuse, they are threatened with prison. This country is America, and the subjects under attack are people who have chosen to serve their nation. They are military personnel. They are lesbians and gay men. And they are hunted day in and day out. Author Randy Shilts follows his best-seller And the Band Played On with a book of even greater power and sweep, as he investigates the situation of lesbians and 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 (including the Father of the United States Army). Five years of interviews with nearly 1,100 gay service people have uncovered extraordinary stories of heroism, persecution, and increasing resistance while documenting the creation of a vast gay subculture within the armed forces. With thousands of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Shilts offers the first in-depth look at the behind-the-scenes decision-making that resulted in the fierce purges of gays in the military over the past thirty years. With its epic scope this book will provide the basis of a national debate not only on the issue of lesbians and gays in the military but on the broader issue of the place of homosexuals in American life

The dangerous difference (1778-1954) -- Book 1. The sanction of the victim (1954-1969) : What Tom Dooley really wanted: a prologue to Vietnam ; Manhood ; Rules ; The spy ; A name on the wall ; Convenience of the government (part 1) ; Days of future passed ; Home front ; The sanction of the victim -- Book 2. Interrogations (1969-1975) : National security ; Endings ; Interrogations ; Indoctrination ; Dykes and whores ; In country ; Back to the world ; Winners ; STRAC ; Politics and prejudice ; The letter -- Book 3. Trials (1975-1976) : The color purple (part 1) ; The green beret ; Freedom ; The mile-wide word ; Triangulates ; Adjectives and nouns ; The next generation ; Transitions ; The secret report -- Book 4. The family (1977-1980) : The family ; Reaction ; The gayest ship in the Navy and other stories ; Women at sea ; Angry gods ; Memorial day ; Glory days ; "Until after November" ; Interregnum ; Future imperfect -- Book 5. Lesbian vampires of Bavaria (1981-1985) : Thoughtcrimes ; Surrender Dorothy ; Railroading ; Doreen ; Lesbian vampires of Bavaria ; Straights ; In the midnight sky ; Heroes ; Exiles ; Blanket parties ; Costs ; HTLV-III ; Dykebusters ; Friends of Helga ; Where it all began -- Book 6. HOMOVAC (1986-1990) : Tom Dooley's undesirable discharge ; The unquiet death of Michael W. Foster ; Countertrends ; The color purple (part 2) ; At the Buccaneer Motel ; HOMOVAC: prisoner number 73343 ; Foreign affairs ; Naming names ; The Soesterberg affair ; Funerals ; Malleus maleficarum ; The release of prisoner number 17 ; Embarrassments in the making ; Explosions ; Mockingbirds ; Official government sources ; Hearings ; Holding actions ; Vindication ; The fag killer -- Epilogue: Promises to keep : Convenience of the government (part 2) ; Tom Dooley's honorable discharge