| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out. By Steve Estes. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 280 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3115-1.)

An old slogan from the early gay rights movement claimed, "we are everywhere." In Ask and Tell, Steve Estes provides proof of that statement through his comprehensive look at the experiences of gay men and lesbians in the military—from the meeting at the Oder River of American and Russian forces in World War II ("they were hugging and kissing us. Of course I loved that" [p. 12]) to the first West Point recruits after the passage of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (derided as "Clinton's Queen Berets" [p. 125]) to participation in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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