Gays in uniform : the Pentagon's secret reports /
"When two studies by a Pentagon research group found that there was no justification for keeping gay people out of the military, the generals deep-sixed the reports. Congressman Gerry S. Studds and his legislative assistant, Kate Dyer, acting on a tip, uncovered the documents and forced the Pen...
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Boston :
Alyson Publications,
1990.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. The first report. Nonconforming sexual orientations and military suitability. Judicial trends and shifting folkways ; Scientific status of the homosexuality concept ; The social construction of sexual deviance ; The morality construction
- good and evil as fundamental categories ; The legal construction
- sexual deviance as criminal behavior ; The sickness construction
- the medicalization of deviance ; The minority group construction
- homosexuals as a non-ethnic minority group ; Regulatory policies in the military ; The traditional view in the light of previous discussion ; Resistance to change ; Summary and implications
- Part 2. The memoranda. Memorandum for Director DOD Personnel Security Research and Education Center ; Memorandum for the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Policy) ; Memo for Mr. Peter Nelson
- Part 3. The second report. Preservice adjustment of homosexual and heterosexual military accessions: implications for security clearance suitability. Approach ; Results. Results for the major school problems scale ; Results for the drug and alcohol scale ; Results for the employment experience scale ; Results for the felonies scale ; Results for the minor school problems scale ; Results for the drunk and disorderly scale ; Results for the AFQT percentile ; Discussion. Limitations of the present study.