Secret Service: Untold Stories of Lesbians in the MilitaryThrough interviews with active duty, reserve, and retired soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines, Secret Service underscores what people in uniform at both the highest and lowest echelons already know: Lesbians (and gay men) serve and have served proudly and well in all branches of the American armed forces (and openly in the militaries of many of our allies). Often they are uncommonly dedicated: the sharpest troops found anywhere, sporting the glossiest boots and earning the highest performance evaluations. They neither disrupt good order and discipline nor impair unit cohesion. In Secret Service readers meet the can-do troops who do battle with discrimination-from the high-ranking Washington insider who closes the door to much more than her apartment when she leaves for the Capitol each morning to the rank-and-file enlistee whose make-believe boyfriend helps her fend off daily inquisitions. These women-nurses, clerks, commanders, and artillerymen-are part of an extraordinary community of dedicated professionals whose commitment extends above and beyond. They are smart. They are skilled. They are lesbians. And that fact alone-ten years after "don't ask, don't tell" was implemented-still means discharge. Book jacket. |
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