Books On Gays & Lesbians In The Military At Phil Johnson Library

Honoring Our Service Members and Veterans End “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell” Selected Resources Available at the

Resource Center of Dallas 2701 Reagan Street, Dallas, TX • 214-540-4451 • [email protected] Ask & Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out. By Steve Estes.

UB418 E77 2009

Interviews with gay and lesbian veterans from World War II to the Iraq War.

Coming out under fire: the history of gay men and women in World War Two. By Allan Berube.

D769.2 B46 1990

Publishing Triangle 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books. Using documents and interviews with gay veterans, shows how the military purged service members on the basis of homosexuality during WW II.

Conduct unbecoming: gays and lesbians in the U.S. military. By Randy Shilts.

UB418 G38 S55 1994

Lambda Literary Award. A history of gays in the military based on hundreds of interviews and original documents.

Documenting courage: gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender veterans speak out. By the Human Rights Campaign. Get off my ship: Ensign Berg vs. the U.S. Navy. By E. Lawrence Gibson.

UB418 H86 2004 REF VB324 G537 1978

An account of the first Naval officer to challenge a discharge on the ground of homosexuality.

Here’s what we’ll say growing up, coming out, and the U.S. Air Force. By Reichen Lehmkuhl.

UB418 G38 L43 2006

First person experiences of a gay cadet in the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Honor bound: a gay American fights for the right to serve his country: By

VB324 G38 S74 1992

Joseph Steffan. Steffan, one of the ten highest ranking in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy, and only six weeks from graduation, was denied his diploma and forced to resign his commission because admitted he was gay.

Major conflict: one Gay man's life in the Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell military. By Jeffrey McGowan. A first personal account of a gay man's silent struggle in the don't-askdon't-tell military, from a cadet who rose to the rank of major and left as a decorated Persian Gulf hero.

UB418 G38 M35 2005

Matlovich: The Good Soldier. By Mike Hippler.

UB418 G38 H56 1989

In 1975, T/Sgt Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War with 15 years of service, openly announced his sexual preference, and challenged the US Air Forces' policy of automatically discharging gays. The Air Force discharged him and he successfully sued the Air Force for reinstatement.

My country, my right to serve: experiences of gay men and women in the military, World War II to the present. By Mary Ann Humphrey.

UB418 G38 H86 1990

Oral histories with gay and lesbian service members.

Sailors and sexual identity: crossing the line between "straight" and "gay" in the U.S. Navy. By Steven Zeeland. Serving in silence. By Margarethe Cammermeyer.

VB324 G38 Z44 1995 UB418 G38 C36 1994

After winning the Bronze Star for duty in Vietnam and being named Nurse of the Year by the Veterans Administration, Colonel Cammermeyer was discharged for being a lesbian.

Soldier of the year: the story of a gay American patriot. By José Zuniga. Unfriendly fire: how the gay ban undermines the military and weakens America. By Nathaniel Frank.

UB418 G38 Z86 1994 UB418 F73 U54 2009

FILMS Coming out under fire. Documentary film based on the book by By Allan Berube. Winner of Peabody Broadcasting Award and GLAAD Media Award. Serving in silence: the Margarethe Cammermeyer story. Winner of Emmy, Peabody, and GLAAD Media Awards.

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