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Allan Bérubé Is Dead at 61; Historian of Gays in Military
By MARGALIT FOX
Published: December 16, 2007
Allan Bérubé, a MacArthur Award-winning independent scholar whose history of gay men and lesbians in the military in World War II is widely considered the definitive book on the subject, died on Tuesday in Liberty, N.Y. He was 61. A former resident of Manhattan, Mr. Bérubé had lived in Liberty in recent years.
CBS 60 Minutes: Is Military More Tolerant Of Gay Members In Wartime?
Dec. 16, 2007
One of Bill Clinton's first acts as president was to propose that gay servicemen and women be allowed to serve openly. That was 15 years ago, and it almost derailed his presidency.
Unit cohesion sounds like a phrase used by a high school chemistry teacher.
Instead, it's the phrase used by the Republican presidential candidates this campaign season to explain why they support the military's discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prohibits openly gay service members, a policy supposedly created to stop military commanders from performing witch-hunts against gay service members that instead has been used to discharge more than 12,000 gays in the 14 years since its implementation.
Anyone watching the Republican presidential debate last week might have been left thinking that those in the military are too intolerant of gays to serve with them; that all senior officers believe "don't ask, don't tell" is working and should remain in effect; and that anyone challenging the ban on gays serving openly must be a political operative planted by the Clinton campaign.
