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Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was the directive of President Clinton's 1993 military policy regarding gay and lesbian soldiers. This official silence continued a collective amnesia about the patriotic service and courageous sacrifices of homosexual troops. Ask and Tell recovers these lost voices, offering a rich chronicle of the history of gay and lesbian service in the U.S. military from World War II to the Iraq War.

Drawing on more than 50 interviews with gay and lesbian veterans, Steve Estes charts the evolution of policy toward homosexuals in the military over the past 65 years, uncovering the ways that silence about sexuality and military service has affected the identities of gay veterans. These veteran voices--harrowing, heroic, and on the record--reveal the extraordinary stories of ordinary Americans, men and women who simply did their duty and served their country in the face of homophobia, prejudice, and enemy fire. Far from undermining national security, unit cohesion, or troop morale, Estes demonstrates, these veterans strengthened the U.S. military in times of war and peace. He also examines challenges to the ban on homosexual service, placing them in the context of the wider movement for gay rights and gay liberation. Ask and Tell is an important compilation of unheard voices, offering Americans a new understanding of the value of all the men and women who serve and protect them.

Read Ask and Tell Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out Steve Estes Books

"I read this the summer before I left for my first deployment. It is not just a great read for those interested in learning more about the life of gay service members over time, it is a great resource of personal accounts and service member's experiences over times. I really enjoyed reading about what military life was like during other wars in this format.
It is a great read for gay service members especially! It will make you feel much more normal to hear about other service members with similar experiences and how they managed."

Product details Paperback 296 pages Publisher The University of North Carolina Press; New edition edition (February 1, 2009) Language English ISBN-10 0807859559

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Ask and Tell Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out Steve Estes Books Reviews :

Ask and Tell Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out Steve Estes Books Reviews

• A unique and all encompassing oral history on life as a gay service member both before and after the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. The book allows the men and women to tell their story and gives a historical reference to help anchor the history. Looking forward to a followup with all the new Trump era policy changes.
• I liked the stories told in this book. Too bad there weren't more stories about WWII. Amazing life tales from officers were very interesting. Unfortunately, it is now a little outdated as DADT has been abolished.
• I read this the summer before I left for my first deployment. It is not just a great read for those interested in learning more about the life of gay service members over time, it is a great resource of personal accounts and service member's experiences over times. I really enjoyed reading about what military life was like during other wars in this format.
  It is a great read for gay service members especially! It will make you feel much more normal to hear about other service members with similar experiences and how they managed.
• Full disclosure I am one of the veterans fetured in "Ask and Tell". I do not know the author personally, and I have no financial interest in this book. With that out of the way...
  
  Steve Estes has done a remarkable job. Through the personal accounts of dozens of gay veterans, the author has woven a coherent and compelling narrative. His subjects span every military branch and rank, every kind of family background and all corners of the U.S. They are endearing, instructive and always entertaining. Their stories show just how capricious military policy on homosexuality has been some serve openly and honorably, others, no less honorable, are hounded out of the service with an indelible stain on their records and on their lives.
  
  It's always a pleasure to swap war stories with fellow vets, young and old. This collection is now a part of that time-honored tradition. Reading it, I felt like those men and women were talking right to me. Their stories conjured so many memories in me - of basic training, barracks life, sexual politics and, yes, war - that I know I will take great delight in reading and re-reading this book for many years to come.
• Very readable oral histories of the lives of gays who have served honorably in our country's armed forces. This book helps those of us who are not gay to understand the added stresses placed on gays who desire a military career by the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. It reveals the devotion of many of these men and women to their careers in the armed forces and the conflicts they experienced in living fulfilling personal lives while performing their military duties with excellence. I would recommend it to both gay and straight readers as a historical accounting with pertinence to our country's ongoing dialogue on integration of gay citizens into the fabric of our national life.