Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America

When the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy emerged as a political compromise under Bill Clinton in 1993, it only ended up worsening the destructive gay ban that had been on the books since World War II. Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Nathaniel Frank exposes the military's policy toward gays and lesbians.