Center Voices presents author Dr. Nathaniel Frank

Event Date

Wednesday, March 25 2009 : 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Location

The Center

Description

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Reception 6PM, Program 7PM, $10
Center Voices presents author Dr. Nathaniel Frank

Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America is the first major history of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and brings together the largest ever collection of interviews, stories and evidence about service under the policy, including the experiences of openly gay troops fighting on the frontlines of America’s current wars. It contains never-before-published material about behind-the-scenes jockeying by participants in the creation of “don’t ask, don’t tell” who acknowledge they exaggerated the threat to “unit cohesion” posed by gays. A lively and compelling narrative, Unfriendly Fire is sure to make the blood boil of any American who cares about national security, the right to speak the truth, or just plain fairness.

About the Author

Dr. Nathaniel Frank is Senior Research Fellow at the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an adjunct professor of history at New York University. A historian with a doctorate from Brown University, he is perhaps the most widely published journalist on the military’s current policy on gay troops. Dr. Frank broke the story of Army purges of gay Arabic translators in The New Republic. His publications on gays in the military and other topics have also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Lingua Franca and In These Times.

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