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Gay military personnel

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us: Gay military personnel



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    • us: Gay Armed Forces members
    • us: Gay service members
    • us: Gay soldiers
    • us: Gays in military service
    • us: Gays in the Armed Forces
    • us: Gays in the military

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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Gays in the military

  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Canaday, M.The effect of sodomy laws on lifting the ban on homosexual personnel, 2002: abstr. (gay and lesbian personnel in the Australian and South African Defence Forces; homosexual personnel were successfully integrated into either police or military service) p. 16 (homosexual personnel in the military)
    • found: Belkin, A. Don't ask, don't tell : is the gay ban based on military necessity?, c2003: PDF p. 109 (Currently, 24 nations allow gays and lesbians to serve in their armed forces; foreign experiences in lifting bans on homosexual personnel) p. 110 (Australia, Canada, Israel, and Britain: each of the four countries studied reversed its gay ban for different reasons)
    • found: Tatchell, P. We don't want to march straight : masculinity, queers, and the military, 1995.
    • found: Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military web site, Jan. 29, 2006: mission statement (The Center promotes the interdisciplinary analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and other marginalized sexual identities in the armed forces) research resources/newspaper and magazine articles (titles: New course by Royal Navy: a campaign to recruit gays; Peru court rules gay servicemembers may have sex; Britain's Royal Air Force wants gay flyboys; German Army to lift ban on sex in the barracks; Gays are not willingly accepted in the Russian Army; British gay army spouses to get military pensions; Thailand's military plans to exempt gays and transvestites from draft; Taiwan drops ban on gays in military police; NZ military "light years ahead" on issue of gays; Queer equality in South African Army; Australia model for gays in US Army; Gays and lesbians in the Canadian military coming out to form social clubs)
    • found: Bateman, G. Multinational military units and homosexual personnel, 2004, via WWW, Jan. 29, 2006 (militaries that have lifted their gay bans; gay service members; gay personnel from foreign militaries; openly gay, non-U.S. service members)
    • found: Find articles Web site, Oct. 13, 2007 (gay armed forces members; gay service members; gay soldiers; lesbian and gay soldiers; gays in military; gays in the military)

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    • 2006-01-30: new
    • 2011-02-17: revised

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