Title: About Face: A Gay Officer's Account of How He Stopped Prosecuting Gays in the Army and Started Fighting for Their Rights
Publisher: Birch Lane Pr
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1559722819
ISBN 13: 9781559722810
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 1.54 pounds

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A former army lawyer recounts prosecuting gay soldiers while hiding his homosexuality, leaving the army, and helping to draft a new policy

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This is an interesting account of a double life. As an army lawyer, Capt. James Kennedy prosecuted homosexual soldiers while closeting his own homosexuality. Finally he ended the pretense, resigned his commission and assisted the Clinton administration in revising its policy toward gays in uniform. The author's personal odyssey is a moving story of self-awareness and self-affirmation. General readers will find even more interesting Kennedy's firsthand account of the armed forces' complex gay subculture, which, he writes, includes those of the highest ranks. His assertion that one post-WWII commandant of the Marine Corps, unnamed here, was gay or bisexual will cause fierce speculation. Within the community of gays in uniform, networking and mutual protection are significant distinguishing responses to traditional official policies. Such clandestine behavior benefits neither individuals nor institutions, opines the author.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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