Nathaniel Frank Book Signing March 11, 2009

Nathaniel Frank
Discussion & Signing for “Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America”
3/11 at 7:00 pm
Borders, 2817 N. Clark St (773) 935-3909

March 2009 marks the 15th anniversary of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy implemented by the U.S. Military under President Bill Clinton. In Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America, Nathaniel Frank draws on hundreds of interviews and over a decade of research to show the damage wrought by the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian Americans. Frank, a Senior Research Fellow at the Palm Center at The University of California at Santa Barbara, broke the news story of the linguists who were discharged from the military for being gay in 2002, despite a critical shortage of language specialists. In Unfriendly Fire, he reveals how “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has resulted in skyrocketing discharges, invaded service members’ privacy, harmed unit cohesion, undermined trust between soldiers, hampered recruitment and embarrassed the military.

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