This survey of current and
recent military service personnel who have served in
Iraq or Afghanistan (or in combat support roles directly
supporting those operations) sought to explore the issue
of sexual minorities in the United States military,
specifically within the context of three key areas.

This paper reports findings from a survey of transgender service
members and veterans designed and administered by the Transgender
American Veterans Association (TAVA).

Ten years after "don't ask, don't tell" was put in place there is more
evidence that suggests lifting bans on homosexual personnel does not
threaten unit cohesion or undermine military effectiveness.

This Article examines judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
against the United Kingdom in 1999, and how these have affected other
signatory nations to the European Convention for the Protection of
Human Rights.

In February 2005, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the costs of discharging and replacing service members fired for homosexuality during the first ten years of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.  This report addresses oversights in the methodology of that report leading to an estimated cost of $363.8 million, of 91 percent more than originally reported.

The Center recently released a draft report studying the practical and conceptual problems with regulating harassment in a discriminatory institution.

This paper presents an overview of Stop-Loss, provides a summary of available evidence from World War II to 2002 including a history of known gays serving during wartime, and includes discharge figues of the time.

U.S. military has repeatedly been forced to
attenuate the divisions, antagonisms and distrust that have troubled American
culture more broadly. This necessity
has stemmed from the unique position of the armed forces as both a defensive
and a “total” institution in American civic life.

July 2008 - A bipartisan study group of senior retired military officers, representing different branches of the service, conducted an in-depth assessment of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

July 2008 - A bipartisan study group of senior retired military officers, representing different branches of the service, conducted an in-depth assessment of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

The Palm Center has released eight key recommendations to the Pentagon Working Group on gays in the military. These recommendations are intended as a first step in providing full support to the Working Group and acknowledging the importance of a thorough and timely process.

Since the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy itself has made it impossible to study
the plausibility of the unit cohesion rationale directly, an examination of multinational military units may be the most direct
option for assessing the plausibility of the unit cohesion rationale.

A report released by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) reaches several conclusions about the current status of gay service members in the U.S. military serving under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.  This note explains its misleading conclusions about the policy, and its effects on the status of gay service members.