Honoring Our Service

Members and Veterans

End “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell”
Selected Resources Available at
the

Resource Center of Dallas

2701 Reagan Street, Dallas, TX • 214-540-4451 • library@rcdallas.org

Ask & Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out. By Steve Estes. UB418 E77 2009
Interviews with gay and lesbian veterans from World War II to the Iraq
War.
Coming out under fire: the history of gay men and women in World D769.2 B46 1990
War Two. By Allan Berube.
Publishing Triangle 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books.
Using documents and interviews with gay veterans, shows how the
military purged service members on the basis of homosexuality during
WW II.
Conduct unbecoming: gays and lesbians in the U.S. military. By UB418 G38 S55 1994
Randy Shilts.
Lambda Literary Award. A history of gays in the military based on
hundreds of interviews and original documents.
Documenting courage: gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender UB418 H86 2004 REF
veterans speak out. By the Human Rights Campaign.
Get off my ship: Ensign Berg vs. the U.S. Navy. By E. Lawrence VB324 G537 1978
Gibson.
An account of the first Naval officer to challenge a discharge on the
ground of homosexuality.
Here’s what we’ll say growing up, coming out, and the U.S. Air UB418 G38 L43 2006
Force. By Reichen Lehmkuhl.
First person experiences of a gay cadet in the U.S. Air Force
Academy.
Honor bound: a gay American fights for the right to serve his country: By VB324 G38 S74 1992
Joseph Steffan.
Steffan, one of the ten highest ranking in his class at the U.S. Naval
Academy, and only six weeks from graduation, was denied his
diploma and forced to resign his commission because admitted he
was gay.
Major conflict: one Gay man's life in the Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell UB418 G38 M35 2005
military. By Jeffrey McGowan.
A first personal account of a gay man's silent struggle in the don't-ask-
don't-tell military, from a cadet who rose to the rank of major and left
as a decorated Persian Gulf hero.
Matlovich: The Good Soldier. By Mike Hippler. UB418 G38 H56 1989
In 1975, T/Sgt Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam
War with 15 years of service, openly announced his sexual
preference, and challenged the US Air Forces' policy of automatically
discharging gays. The Air Force discharged him and he successfully
sued the Air Force for reinstatement.
My country, my right to serve: experiences of gay men and women in UB418 G38 H86 1990
the military, World War II to the present. By Mary Ann
Humphrey.
Oral histories with gay and lesbian service members.
Sailors and sexual identity: crossing the line between "straight" and VB324 G38 Z44 1995
"gay" in the U.S. Navy. By Steven Zeeland.
Serving in silence. By Margarethe Cammermeyer. UB418 G38 C36 1994
After winning the Bronze Star for duty in Vietnam and being named
Nurse of the Year by the Veterans Administration, Colonel
Cammermeyer was discharged for being a lesbian.
Soldier of the year: the story of a gay American patriot. By José UB418 G38 Z86 1994
Zuniga.
Unfriendly fire: how the gay ban undermines the military and UB418 F73 U54 2009
weakens America. By Nathaniel Frank.

FILMS
Coming out under fire. Documentary film based on the book by By Allan DVD COM
Berube. Winner of Peabody Broadcasting Award and GLAAD Media
Award.
Serving in silence: the Margarethe Cammermeyer story. Winner of Emmy, DVD SER
Peabody, and GLAAD Media Awards.

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