TY - BOOK AU - Lehring, Gary L., TI - Officially gay: the political construction of sexuality by the U .S. military SN - 1592130348 U1 - 355/.0086 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Temple University Press KW - Gay military personnel KW - Government policy KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-222) and index; Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments --Introduction --1 What Is an Official Gay Identity? --2 The Emergence of Identity: Episte mological Tenets of the Modern Gay and Lesbian Subject --3 Gays in the Military: Constructing the "Homosexual" Other --4 Gays in the Military: Identity as "Official" Justification for Exclusion --5 Gaze in the Mil itary: Competing Perceptions of Gay Performance --6 Don't Kiss and Tell in the Military: Gay Politics and the Clinton Compromise --7 Becoming Identity: Public Policy, Gay Identification, and the "Queer" Response ER -