Diversity and Military Effectiveness Improving inclusion for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) service members is more than a matter of ‘doing the right thing’: it is a matter of military effectiveness. A groundbreaking new report from The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, a defense think tank, argues that militaries must embrace diversity in order to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century security environment.
The book also includes intimate writings from some of the athletes about their own coming out experiences, as well as an afterword by retired professional NBA basketball player Jason Collins."--Back cover.
Spencer Edwards is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and a recent graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. was raised in a family of fundamentalist Latter-day Saints, and I. up hearing my dad proclaim that homosexuals were an ...
A young soldier's coming of age at Fort Eustis in Virginia is the subject of Tom Baker's newest novel, a historical tale of being gay in the military during 1967 and the Vietnam War.
Includes selected bibliography and index.
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.
While the White House And The Pentagon continue to study gay men and women serving in the US military, The gay service members continue to fight in silence.