Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy

by Janet E. Halley

Book Overview

In Don't Janet E. Halley explains how the military's new anti-gay policy is fundamentally misdescribed by its common nickname, "Don't Ask/Don't Tell." This ubiquitous phrase, she points out, implies that it discharges servicemembers not for who they are, but for what they do. It insinuates that, as long as military personnel keep quiet about their homosexual orientation and desist from "homosexual conduct," no one will try to pry them out of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323176
• ISBN13: 9780822323174
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A brilliant analysis of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy

Halley not only carefully dissects the military's current policy toward gay and lesbian members, revealing its legal shortcomings and moral hollowness, she takes prominent public figures to task for supporting such a policy. The book is short, the argument dense, her conclusions inescapable. A necessary book.