TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lehring,Gary L.
TI  - Officially gay: the political construction of sexuality by the U.S. military 
T2  - Queer politics, queer theories
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Temple University Press
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - fast
KW  - gnd
KW  - USA
KW  - Gay military personnel
KW  - Militärpolitik
KW  - Militär
KW  - Homosexualität
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-222) and index; What is an official gay identity? -- The emergence of identity : epistemological tenets of the modern gay and lesbian subject -- Gays in the military : constructing the "homosexual" other -- Gays in the military : identity as "official" justification for exclusion -- Gaze in the military : competing perceptions of gay performance -- Don't kiss and tell in the military : gay politics and the Clinton compromise -- Becoming identity : public policy, gay identification, and the "queer" response -- Conclusion : Nightmares, fantasies, and sexual performance
N2  - Follows the military's century-long attempt to identify and exclude gays and lesbians, and argues that military policy helped create a modern gay movement and shape the direction taken by that movement. Simultaneously, it made possible greater regulation and scrutiny of gays and lesbians both in and out of the military. [back cover]
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb34618
ER  -