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  title info:
    title: Conduct unbecoming
    sub title: lesbians and gays in the U.S. military : Vietnam to the Persian Gulf
  name:
    name part: Shilts, Randy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Farley, Alan
    name part: 1936-2012
    role:
      role term: dedicatee (item)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1993
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 784 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: There is a country where citizens are interrogated for long hours and threatened with prison or the loss of their children if they do not cooperate, where citizens are ordered to denounce others, to give information - often entirely fabricated - dispatching people to ignominy and jail. And if they refuse, they are threatened with prison. This country is America, and the subjects under attack are people who have chosen to serve their nation. They are military personnel. They are lesbians and gay men. And they are hunted day in and day out. Author Randy Shilts follows his best-seller And the Band Played On with a book of even greater power and sweep, as he investigates the situation of lesbians and gays in the military over the past three decades, revealing for the first time that some of the most celebrated soldiers in American history were homosexual (including the Father of the United States Army). Five years of interviews with nearly 1,100 gay service people have uncovered extraordinary stories of heroism, persecution, and increasing resistance while documenting the creation of a vast gay subculture within the armed forces. With thousands of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Shilts offers the first in-depth look at the behind-the-scenes decision-making that resulted in the fierce purges of gays in the military over the past thirty years. With its epic scope this book will provide the basis of a national debate not only on the issue of lesbians and gays in the military but on the broader issue of the place of homosexuals in American life.
  table of contents: The dangerous difference (1778-1954) -- Book 1. The sanction of the victim (1954-1969) : What Tom Dooley really wanted: a prologue to Vietnam ; Manhood ; Rules ; The spy ; A name on the wall ; Convenience of the government (part 1) ; Days of future passed ; Home front ; The sanction of the victim -- Book 2. Interrogations (1969-1975) : National security ; Endings ; Interrogations ; Indoctrination ; Dykes and whores ; In country ; Back to the world ; Winners ; STRAC ; Politics and prejudice ; The letter -- Book 3. Trials (1975-1976) : The color purple (part 1) ; The green beret ; Freedom ; The mile-wide word ; Triangulates ; Adjectives and nouns ; The next generation ; Transitions ; The secret report -- Book 4. The family (1977-1980) : The family ; Reaction ; The gayest ship in the Navy and other stories ; Women at sea ; Angry gods ; Memorial day ; Glory days ; "Until after November" ; Interregnum ; Future imperfect -- Book 5. Lesbian vampires of Bavaria (1981-1985) : Thoughtcrimes ; Surrender Dorothy ; Railroading ; Doreen ; Lesbian vampires of Bavaria ; Straights ; In the midnight sky ; Heroes ; Exiles ; Blanket parties ; Costs ; HTLV-III ; Dykebusters ; Friends of Helga ; Where it all began -- Book 6. HOMOVAC (1986-1990) : Tom Dooley's undesirable discharge ; The unquiet death of Michael W. Foster ; Countertrends ; The color purple (part 2) ; At the Buccaneer Motel ; HOMOVAC: prisoner number 73343 ; Foreign affairs ; Naming names ; The Soesterberg affair ; Funerals ; Malleus maleficarum ; The release of prisoner number 17 ; Embarrassments in the making ; Explosions ; Mockingbirds ; Official government sources ; Hearings ; Holding actions ; Vindication ; The fag killer -- Epilogue: Promises to keep : Convenience of the government (part 2) ; Tom Dooley's honorable discharge.
  note: Randy Shilts.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is inscribed by the author to
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 767-770) and index.
  note: Lambda Literary Award, 1994.
  note: From the Library of Manuel H. Davenport Superb Teacher and Military Ethicist, August 2001.
  note: Donated by Don Kelly 20150505
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Gay military personnel
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Homophobia
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: Gays
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuality
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Military Personnel
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Forces armées
    topic: Homosexuels
  subject:
    topic: 89.81 armed forces
  subject:
    topic: Gay military personnel
  subject:
    topic: Homophobia
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Krijgsmacht
  subject:
    topic: Homoseksuelen
  subject:
    topic: Homophobia in the Armed Forces
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Gay soldiers
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Lesbian soldiers
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Gays
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Lesbians
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Gays in the military
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Armed forces
  classification: UB418.G38 S55 1993
  classification: 355/.008/664
  classification: 89.81
  identifier: 031209261X
  identifier: 9780312092610
  identifier: 031209621X
  identifier: 93009670
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 930211
    record change date: 20211230121906.0
    record identifier: in00001129444
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng