num_pages: 280
description: In 1993, simply the idea that lesbians and gays should be able to serve openly in the military created a firestorm of protest from right-wing groups and powerful social conservatives that threatened to derail the entire agenda of a newly elected President. Nine short years later, in the wake of September 11, 2001, the Pentagon's suspension of discharge of gay and lesbians went largely overlooked and unremarked by political pundits, news organizations, military experts, religious leaders and gay activists. How can this collective cultural silence be explained?
language: English
title: Officially Gay: The Political Construction of Sexuality
titlecomplete: Officially Gay: The Political Construction of Sexuality
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 8
series: Queer Politics, Queer Theories
publisher: Temple University Press