Gays and Lesbians in the Military: Issues, Concerns, and ContrastsWilbur J. Scott, Sandra Carson Stanley Transaction Publishers - 278 páginas Despite the amply documented presence of significant numbers of undeclared homosexual soldiers, sailors, and Air Force personnel, the official position of the American military since the Second World War has been to ban gay men and lesbian women from serving in the United States military. Enlistment of openly gay or lesbian military personnel has not been permitted; those already in the military service who have subsequently "come out" as gays and lesbians have been mustered out of the service, with no prospect of appeal. |
Índice
| 3 | |
An Overview of the Debate on Homosexuals in the US Military | 17 |
Social Science Research on Homosexuals in the Military | 33 |
From Citizens Army to Social Laboratory | 53 |
Fighting for a Just Cause Soldiers Views on Gays in the Military | 69 |
Lifting the Ban on Homosexuals in the Military The Subversion of a Moral Principle | 87 |
Anatomy of a Panic State Voyeurism Gender Politics and the Cult of Americanism | 103 |
Defensive Discourse Blacks and Gays in the US Military | 121 |
Gays in the Military Policy and Practice in the Israeli Defence Forces | 181 |
Sexual Orientation and Military Service The British Case | 191 |
Homosexuality and the Armed Forces in the Netherlands | 205 |
Evolving Perspectives on the Militarys Policy on Homosexuals A Personal Note | 219 |
Sexual Orientation and the Armed Forces Lifting the Ban with Caution | 231 |
Integration of Homosexuals into the Armed Forces Racial and Gender Integration as a Point of Departure | 247 |
Directions for the Future | 261 |
Biographical Sketches of the Contributors | 267 |
BestKept Secrets A Comparison of Gays and Women in the United States Armed Forces The Hidden Life of Uncle Sam | 135 |
The Military Ban on Homosexuals and the Cyclops Effect | 149 |
Opening the Canadian Forces to Gays and Lesbians An Inevitable Decision but Improbable Reconfiguration | 165 |
Index | 271 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 98 - ... where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 18 - Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces...
Página 25 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.
Página 123 - The policy of the War Department is not to intermingle colored and white enlisted personnel in the same regimental organizations. This policy has been proven satisfactory over a long period of years and to make changes would produce situations destructive to morale and detrimental to the preparations for national defense.
Página 16 - Lillian Faderman, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (New York: William Morrow, 1981).
Página 19 - Homosexuality is Incompatible with military service. The presence in the military environment of persons who engage in homosexual conduct or who, by their statements, demonstrate a propensity to engage In homosexual conduct, seriously Impairs the accomplishment of the military mission.
Página 63 - Skin color is a benign, non-behavioral characteristic. Sexual orientation is perhaps the most profound of human behavioral characteristics. Comparison of the two is a convenient but invalid argument.
Página 19 - ... who frequently must live and work under close conditions affording minimal privacy; to recruit and retain members of the Military Services; to maintain the public acceptability of military service; and to prevent breaches of security.
Página 121 - I am supposing that in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organised and redistributed according to a certain number of procedures, whose role is to avert its powers and its dangers, to cope with chance events, to evade its ponderous, awesome materiality.
Página 31 - Moreover, it is difficult to conceive of an area of governmental activity in which the courts have less competence. The complex, subtle, and professional decisions as to the composition, training, equipping, and control of a military force are essentially professional military judgments, subject always to civilian control of the Legislative and Executive Branches.