Spacemen, Scholars, and Sailors: Another Look at the Military’s Treatment of Gays
Authors
Eitelberg, Mark J.
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Date of Issue
2003-08
Date
August 2003
Publisher
American Psychological Association
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Abstract
This paper was presented at the national conference of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, Canada, August 2003. The author examines three different perspectives on the military’s treatment of gays during the 1990s. One perspective comes from disinterested observers in another place and time. For the purpose of alliteration, these observers are termed spacemen. A second perspective comes from the author, who works in the community of scholars, and feels the pressing need to tell a story from years past. The third perspective—and the main focus of the paper—comes from Navy officers, or sailors, who participated in three surveys that span the history of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gays.
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Conference Paper
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Paper prepared for presentation at the national conference of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 2003.
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Business and Public Policy (GSBPP)
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School
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23 p.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.