The documents posted below provide factual information and historic context on the issue of gays in the military.

Additional information is provided in relevant sections of an article by CMR President Elaine Donnelly, titled “Constructing the Co-Ed Military,” in the June 2007 edition of the Duke University Journal of Gender Law & Policy:

http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/cite.php?14+Duke+J.+Gender+L.+&+Pol%2527y+815

The text of the section of "Constructing the Co-Ed Military" that analyzes the legislative history and current public relations campaign for homosexuals in the military also is available here:

http://cmrlink.org/fileuploads/DukeLawJournalSectGaysinMilitary.pdf

• On July 23, 2008, CMR President Elaine Donnelly testified before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, in support of Section 654, Title 10, the law stating that homosexuals are not eligible to be in the military.  A Summary of her HASC Testimony is available here.  The full length version of her HASC Testimony is available here.
  
  
• Donnelly was accompanied by Sgt. Maj. Brian Jones, USA (Ret.) a former Ranger and Delta Force soldier who was part of a Special Operations Forces team involved in the incident known as "Black Hawk Down. " The Statement of Brian Jones is posted here .    

More information is available in the "Issues" section of this website, under "Gays in the Military."  In addition, news and commentary on this topic can be researched by key word in current and archived editions of the “CMR Notes” section of this website. Researchers may request a temporary password through info@cmrlink.org.

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• Gays in the military: give the law a name – Liberal activists are waging a public relations campaign to repeal the 1993 law banning homosexuals from the military. The campaign refers to the law as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” although there is nothing in the law resembling the policy known by that name (published July, 2007)
  
  
• Text of Title 10, Section 654, also known as “The Military Personnel Eligibility Act of 1993” (1993)
  
  
• Buyer Letter - December 16, 1999 Policy Regarding the Present Ban on Homosexuals in the Military (published December, 1999)
  
  
• DoD BETRAYING CONGRESS ON HOMOSEXUAL BAN - Defense Secretary Les Aspin began his December 22 (1993) news conference by stating that the new DoD Regulations on Homosexual Conduct in the Armed Forces were designed to implement the policy as announced by President Clinton on July 19, 1993. (published January, 1994)
  
  
• Senate Report 103-112, regarding 1993 law banning gays from the military, Section 654, Title 10, National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1994 (published July, 1993)
  
  
• House Report 103-200, regarding 1993 law banning gays from the military, Section 654, Title 10, National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1994 (published July, 1993)