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Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement

Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement

Snyder-Hill, Stephen
Takei, George

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Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1612348165
ISBN13: 9781612348162
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: Mar 1 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 4.70 Depth: 7.80
Language: English

When the U.S. military repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell, its official policy on homosexuality in the services, Capt. Stephen Snyder-Hill was serving in Iraq. After years enduring the culture of fear and secrecy for gay soldiers, Snyder-Hill submitted a video to a Republican primary debate, asking the participants whether, if elected, they would extend spousal benefits to legally married gay and lesbian soldiers. His video was booed by the audience on national television.

Snyder-Hill's story riveted the nation's attention from national news shows to an episode of HBO's The Newsroom to comments by President Obama. Soldier of Change not only captures the media frenzy as Snyder-Hill took his place at the forefront of this modern civil rights movement but also documents his twenty-year journey as a gay man in the army, which culminated in the most important battle of his life: defending the disenfranchised.


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