Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. What Is an Official Gay Identity?; 2. The Emergence of Identity: Epistemological Tenets of the Modern Gay and Lesbian Subject; 3. Gays in the Military: Constructing the "Homosexual" Other; 4. Gays in the Military: Identity as "Official" Justification for Exclusion; 5. Gaze in the Military: Competing Perceptions of Gay Performance; 6. Don't Kiss and Tell in the Military: Gay Politics and the Clinton Compromise; 7. Becoming Identity: Public Policy, Gay Identification, and the "Queer" Response; Conclusion: Nightmares, Fantasies, and Sexual Performance
Summary
How the military defined homosexuality and the ways that shaped the gay and lesbian identity and movements
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-222) and index
