Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Major conflict Major conflict Jeffrey McGowan A book that will move hearts and open minds, Jeffrey McGowan's memoir is the 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 r… OL12405018W
Serving in silence Serving in silence Margarethe Cammermeyer A heroic nurse who won the Bronze Star among other honors in her exemplary career chronicles her life, discussing her decision to challenge the official position on homosexuality, an act that led to … OL15879397W
Don't ask, don't tell Don't ask, don't tell M. T. Pope Four stories that take on the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Law, from a young woman who is engaged to be married, but unable to let go of her woman on the side, an army soldier, to a Petty Officer who, hap… OL16634698W
Out of step Out of step Anthony Moll What makes a pink-haired queer raise his hand to enlist in the military just as the nation is charging into war? In his memoir, Out of Step, Anthony Moll tells the story of a working-class bisexual b… OL19753501W
Humankind Humankind Rutger Bregman Der Historiker Rutger Bregman setzt sich in seinem Buch mit dem Wesen des Menschen auseinander. Anders als in der westlichen Denktradition angenommen ist der Mensch nicht böse, sondern, so Bregman, i… OL20726133W
Salvation Salvation Jeff Mann The American Civil War still threatens to tear the nation in twain. Private Ian Campbell betrayed his company and his duty because he fell in love with a handsome Yankee prisoner-of-war, Drew Conrad.… OL23185579W
Serving in silence Serving in silence Margarethe Cammermeyer In 1989, during a routine interview for top-secret security clearance, U.S. Army Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer revealed she was a lesbian-- and began an ordeal that despite her distinguished twenty-… OL3486706W
My Country, My Right to Serve My Country, My Right to Serve Mary Ann Humphrey The result of hundreds of interviews and years of research, this is an oral history of gay men and women in the military, ranging over the past five decades, describing in detail the military's long-… OL4656596W
Perverts by official order Perverts by official order Lawrence R. Murphy This candid book documents for the first time the U.S. Navy’s use of entrapment in pursuit of homosexuals in and around Newport, Rhode Island, during the early twentieth century. This most extensive … OL4983647W