Officially gay
Subtitle: the political construction of sexuality by the U.S. military
By: Gary L. Lehring
Series: Queer politics, queer theories
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Gay military personnel; Government policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: 1 What Is an Official Gay Identity?; title: 2 The Emergence of Identity: Epistemological Tenets of the Modern Gay and Lesbian Subject; title: 3 Gays in the Military: Constructing the "Homosexual" Other; title: 4 Gays in the Military: Identity as "Official" Justification for Exclusion; title: 5 Gaze in the Military: Competing Perceptions of Gay Performance; title: 6 Don't Kiss and Tell in the Military: Gay Politics and the Clinton Compromise; title: 7 Becoming Identity: Public Policy, Gay Identification, and the "Queer" Response.