And The Flag Was Still There
By Lois
Shawver
I n this
groundbreaking book,psychologist Lois
Shawver
tells us that the U.S.
military should drop its ban on gays. The Canadians relied on her
testimony in 1992 when they decided to drop their ban on gays, and in this book,
Dr. Shawver explains why the U.S. military should also lift its ban on
gays.
Her explanation of why
the ban should be lifted takes us deep into the heart of human sexuality.
It talks about the way men and women minimize and manage their sexual response
and also how they foster and encourage it, often without realizing it.
This important process is damaged, she argues, in sexually toxic
situations. When she compares the U.S. culture with other cultures and the
current generation with generations past, she finds the sexual culture in the
present day U.S. military to be particularly toxic for human
sexuality.
This is because any
culture that tries to identify and prosecute
something as hidden and as
elusive as a secret homosexual identity
can only do so by creating a climate
of fear and hypocrisy. It must encourage unfounded accusations and it must
submit unfairly accused people to brutal and destructive interrogations.
In the case of gays, this must be done whether or not the suspected parties
recognize themselves as gay or lesbian prior to the interrogations. As you
will see, military examples of these interrogations sometimes sound like
brainwashing.
It is important for all of us that the
U.S. military drop its ban on gays and drop its hypocrisy. There are
currently gays in the military. A ban cannot keep gays out. There are just as
many gays in the military as there are in civilian life. Policing the military
to eliminate homosexuality does not eliminate homosexuals but it does create a
climate of anxiety that causes a sexually toxic situation for everyone,
straights as well as gays -- for straights can be mislabeled as gay in our
current military. And the Flag Was Still There contains a wealth of true stories, stories of how
gays discover each other and discover their own identity, stories of how
straights sometimes get swept along and treated as gay, scandalous stories of
gay people discharging other gays in order to protect their own gay identities.
This book will show you that we will all be better off once we can allow gays to
say that they are gay.
The first chapter of this book is
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