Gay military books
Gay/LGBTQ2IA etc. Series or Upright Alone
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I really like reading gay sci fi and fantasy series and have read a few and now desire to consume more. I have tried to navigate Goodreads but the lists are so dated and massive that finding anything appealing is difficult. Reddit is also hit or miss so here I am.
To clarify, I do not read books with lesbian or sapphic vibes. Similarly, I undertake not read books with trans MCs. I dodge these POV MCs not because I undervalue their importance rather I just want to imagine myself as someone else and I only wish to do that through homosexual or bi usually cis male MCs.
I contain read many series about gay men written by female authors and possess come to truly touch frustrated by the disconnect I feel when I read flowery language crafted to appeal to other women. To that
In , after serving five and a half years as a carpenter in a North Dakota National Guard engineer unit, Bronson Lemer was ready to leave the military behind. But six months short of completing his dedication to the army, Lemer was deployed on a yearlong tour of duty to Iraq. Exiting college life behind in the Midwest, he yearns for a lost admire and quietly dreams of a future as an openly gay man outside the military. He discovers that his father’s lifelong example of silent force has taught him much about existence a man, and these lessons assist him survive in a war zone and to conceal his sexuality, as he is required to do by the U.S. military.
The Last Deployment is a moving, provocative chronicle of one soldier’s effort to reconcile military brotherhood with self-acceptance. Lemer captures the absurd nuances of a soldier’s daily life: growing a mustache to disguise his fear, wearing pantyhose to battle sand fleas, and exchanging barbs with Iraqis while driving through Baghdad. But most strikingly, he describes
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Tell
In Margie Witt, a adolescent Air Force nurse, was chosen as the tackle of the Air Force’s “Cross into the Blue” recruitment campaign. This was also the year that President Clinton’s plan for gays to serve openly in the military was quashed by an obdurate Congress, resulting in the blandly cynical political compromise known as Don’t Inquire, Don’t Tell. Contrary to its intent, DADT had the perverse effect of making it harder for gay servicemen and -women to fight expulsion. Over the next seventeen years more than 13, same-sex attracted soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guard, and airmen and -women were removed from military service. That is, until Margie Witt’s landmark case put a halt to it. Tell is the riveting story of Major Margaret Witt’s assigned and decorated military career as a frontline flight nurse, and of her love and devotion to her partner—now wife—Laurie Johnson. Tell captures the tension and drama of the politically charged legal battle that led to the congressional repeal of the controversial law and helped pave the way for a suite of landmark political and legal victories for gay ri