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The definitive book on lesbians and gay men in the US military.
Randy Shilts, author of the classic documentary history of the AIDS epidemic And The Band Played On, was acclaimed for his ability to take epic histories and molding them into gripping, intimate narratives. Conduct Unbecoming, his groundbreaking exploration of lesbians and gays in the military, came out of hundreds of interviews conducted with servicepeople at all levels of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps and intense research uncovering thousands of documents resulting in a unique history of gays in the military as well as the persecution of gays in the military. Conduct Unbecoming will leave readers moved and imbued with a better understanding of the pressing situation in our nation's military.
"A sober, thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history on the subject. [Shilts's] chronicle is excellent military history, closely woven with an enthralling analysis of the changing definitions of sexuality and personal relationships in American society....[A] landmark book....Remarkable."
--New York Times Book Review
"A masterpiece of investigative reporting…Shilts has shown us the honor homosexuals have brought, and continue to bring, to the uniforms they wear and the country they serve." - Boston Globe
"Gays, we are told, would damage morale in the military. Shilts documents the fact that morale has already been eaten away by hypocrisy, contradictions, and favoritism…This book will be to gay and lesbian liberation what Betty Friedan's was to early feminism or Rachel Carson's to ecological consciousness. No fair-minded person can read Conduct Unbecoming and consider the present system defensible. - USA Today
"Gripping reading....the history of homosexual people and the movement for gay/lesbian equality in the United States can nowhere be more clearly told." - Los Angeles Times
- Sales Rank: #410215 in Books
- Published on: 2005-07-01
- Released on: 2005-06-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.24" h x 1.58" w x 5.56" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 832 pages
Review
"A sober, thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history on the subject. [Shilts's] chronicle is excellent military history, closely woven with an enthralling analysis of the changing definitions of sexuality and personal relationships in American society....[A] landmark book....Remarkable."
--New York Times Book Review
"A masterpiece of investigative reporting…Shilts has shown us the honor homosexuals have brought, and continue to bring, to the uniforms they wear and the country they serve." - Boston Globe
"Gays, we are told, would damage morale in the military. Shilts documents the fact that morale has already been eaten away by hypocrisy, contradictions, and favoritism…This book will be to gay and lesbian liberation what Betty Friedan's was to early feminism or Rachel Carson's to ecological consciousness. No fair-minded person can read Conduct Unbecoming and consider the present system defensible. - USA Today
"Gripping reading....the history of homosexual people and the movement for gay/lesbian equality in the United States can nowhere be more clearly told." - Los Angeles Times
About the Author
RANDY SHILTS, one of the first journalists to recognize the national importance of the AIDS crisis, was a national correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle for thirteen years. He is the author of The Mayor of Castro Street and And the Band Played On. He died in 1994.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Compelling arguements
By Rachel F
Shilts uses his investigative journalism background to craft a compelling argument for the free service of all of those who volunteer to serve. He gives a window into the feelings and motivations of gays in the military and those who serve with them. The progression of the events and documentation of changes in attitude seem to lead toward a future where gays can serve openly. I found the parallels drawn between the situation of gay soldiers now and the situation of black soldiers before the 1950's to be especially convincing.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
One of the most important works of American history in the 20th Century
By Joseph C. Sweeney
Author Shilts has written the seminal work on gays and lesbians in the military. Should not be missed by those interested in American history. I read this book at a time in my life when I was incredibly lonely and sad about my station in life, and, though not gay, I was filled with hope and the promise of a better day by Randy Shilts work.
I can't recommend this book highly enough. One of the great books on American history.
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Conduct Unbecoming Indeed -- a Psychotherapist's Review....
By David C. Young
For 20 years, I've worked, as a psychotherapist with active duty military & their families, as well with as vets. I recently moved my practice, and of course, I connected with a local military base. I was asked if I'd worked with GLBT. (Believe me, THAT never happened before.) I have a fair amount of GLBT experience, though much of it in the early 1990's. Since then, I've done less, as I was more recently practicing in an extremely conservative town - socially/culturally, religiously, politically. So I decided to update my general GLBT background and my more limited background with GLBT & the military.
Earlier, working in a community mental health center in another state, I was asked to do HIV/AIDS counseling. Randy Shilts, an investigative journalist, was, of course, the author of And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition, the best-selling history of the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic. I read his book then as a basic orientation, and I found it well-written and engaging in an awful way - staggering tragedy and senselessness, with fear, ignorance, hate. So, too, is "Conduct Unbecoming".
Re-grounding in GLBT history, I started with Bryne Fone's Homophobia: A History (see my review), which pretty well stops with Stonewall in 1969. Shilts's book, which covers the Vietnam War up to 1990 - just before Clinton & Don't Ask/Don't Tell -- overlaps some, with Fone, but in a very different style. As with "And the Band", "Conduct Unbecoming" is deeply researched. Wikipedia notes, "Shilts and his assistants conducted over a thousand interviews while researching the book, the last chapter of which Shilts [who died of AIDS shortly after the book was published] dictated from his hospital bed." Shilts's work, coming at that time, was most fortunate, as sadly, many he interviewed died of AIDS. As one reporter noted, "...[Shilts] saved a segment of history from extinction."
I've done some oral history, and yes, I know its limitations. But I also know its unique advantages in the hands of a craftsman. It brings an aliveness, a richness, an immediacy of experiencing and deep knowing that best & most powerfully comes directly from real people, real situations, real stories. All this is made more poignant & powerful because so many of these voices speak only here, now silenced by AIDS.
Sometimes these stories are priceless vignettes, as when Eisenhower ordered a prized WWII staff member to begin a lesbian investigation of the WACS: "'Yes sir,' Phelps said to the general... She would make the list if that was the order. Then she reminded Eisenhower that the WAC battalion at his headquarters was one of the most decorated in the Army. It performed superbly, had the fewest unauthorized absences, the least number of venereal-disease cases, and the most infrequent number of pregnancies of any WAC group anywhere. Getting rid of the lesbians would mean losing competent file clerks, typists, and a larger share of the headquarters' key personnel. `I'll make your list,' Phelps concluded in her crackling North Carolina accent, `but you've got to know when you get the list back, my name's going to be first.'"
"Eisenhower's secretary, also in the room, corrected the sergeant. `Sir,' the secretary said, `if the General pleases, Sergeant Phelps will have to be second on the list. I'm going to type it. My name will be first.'"
"According to Phelps, Eisenhower looked at her, looked at the secretary, shook his head, and said, `Forget that order.'"
More often, Shilts weaves longer stories, both heart-warming & heart-breaking, throughout individual chapters, some throughout the whole book. Over & over, it's where bad luck or courage meets a never-give-up, never-give-in fury with power to back it up. And this fury seems to build as, later & later in the book, it becomes clear that excluding gays & lesbians from the military will eventually become a lost cause. At times, I had to set the book aside; it was too painful. "Conduct Unbecoming" does indeed document much conduct unbecoming, especially that of government investigators. Normally, I shy away from name-calling, but Shilts's favored term - witch-hunt -- is often well-earned.
So often, too, this fury seems fueled by the increasing presence & greater roles of women in the military. Less documented, but I suspect also a factor is the increasing presence & greater roles of blacks, too. Traditionalists definitely felt under siege.
For me, now working as the military opens itself to openly involving homosexuals, Shilts also writes a much-needed tutorial. It really helps me know how we got here. And Shilts gives histories about what homosexuals may expect going forward. He documents the struggles of blacks and, especially, women in the US military, as well as the struggles of GLBT in non-US militaries. All these are sobering. Full acceptance seems, to me, likely to be still a long time coming. And I expect that sharpened awareness to be important in my work going forward.
If I have a criticism of Shilts, it's his interpretations of the mechanisms underlying sexism, racism & homophobia. He correctly identifies them, with sad & brutal clarity, in his stories. His interpretations, his explanations of "why", though, seem to me staying too general, too much "the usual suspects". This is understandable as "the other side" wasn't open to talk & deep reflection, neither at the time they put their homophobia into action nor afterwards - at least not to Shilts. I'm not denying the general involvement of loss of power, challenges to traditional manhood, threats from inner glimpses of bisexuality, readings of the Bible - all these fiercely-held values. But I'd hoped for more deeply precise insights that might help not only those on homophobia's receiving end, but those trapped within homophobia.
By recent studies, many of today's youth seems well-past their elders in accepting & including GLBT. (See, for example, Rich Sabin-Williams's The New Gay Teenager (Adolescent Lives) and my review.) This is similar to what I've seen in over a half-century struggle toward more accepting & including blacks and women. (Though surely we still face serious challenges with ongoing racism/sexism.) But it's really a different world from the 1950's, and a better one.
My field - healing diseases of the mind - doesn't help with homophobia either. Psychology & psychotherapy really don't grok hate & rage. Neither are listed in my book of diseases (DSM), though Aristotle & Plato listed them as such, and more serious than, say, depression. So these fields don't provide us with much deep thinking or quality research, let alone tested approaches on what to do.
Ultimately, my criticism, or more accurately, my frustration is less with Shilts than with my field and society-at-large.
For those interested not only gays & the military, but in civil rights, I strongly recommend this book. It makes these struggles come alive.
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