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Article: "Don't ask don't tell" goes to war: for the first time, the policy that failed in peacetime is being tested in battle. (Cover Story).(Cover Story)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2001
- Author:
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A 14-year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, he has served on cutters assigned to protect Navy battleships around the world. He is now part of a team assigned to guard America's harbors and its vital shipping industry against terrorist attacks. And since September 11 he has worked nearly around the clock to protect the nation in one of its most vulnerable strategic positions.
Yet this Coast Guard officers knows that revealing his sexual orientation, even inadvertently, could cost him the career he has spent much of his adult life building. He agreed to speak to The Advocate but only on the condition of anonymity and in the presence of his attorney, a staff lawyer ...
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Article: Scientific understanding of sexual orientation: ...
The American Biology Teacher;
May 1, 2000 ;
700+ words
... ... consider the scientific basis of sexual orientation and to develop ways to present these ... Hamer 1995) make it clear that sexual orientation, like other traits, has a genetic ... to understand that the origins of sexual orientation, including homosexuality, are genetically ...
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