Secret Service: Untold Stories of Lesbians in the Military

by Zsa Zsa Gershick

 

Secret Service: Untold Stories of Lesbians in the Military

Zsa Zsa Gershick

Alyson Books

 

Although 79 percent of Americans support allowing gay and lesbian troops to serve openly, the military continues to hunt down and discharge qualified service members.

Secret Service: Untold Stories of Lesbians in the Military, a 305-page book by Zsa Zsa Gershick, with a forward by Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, tells the stories of the can-do troops who do battle with discrimination. These women – nurses, clerks, commanders and artillerymen – are part of an extraordinary community of dedicated professionals whose commitment extends above and beyond.

An Alyson Book, Secret Service includes interviews with active duty, reserve and retired soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines underscore what people in uniform already know: Lesbians (and gay men) serve and have served proudly and well in all branches of the American armed forces. They are smart. They are skilled. They are lesbian. And that fact alone – 10 years after the passage of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – still means discharge.

Award-winning author Gershick served in the U.S. Army Reserve from 1978 to 1983.

(as published in Family & Friends Magazine, July 2005)