Stonewall Book Award
1 appearances
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Edition 37 (2010) Winner
Nathaniel Frank
ナサニエル・フランク
Nasanieru Furanku
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
Career
- Occupations
- Political scientist, Author, Senior research fellow
- Active Years
- 2000-
- Affiliations
- Palm Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Stonewall Book Award | Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America | — | Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual & Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association | Winner |
Stonewall Book Award
2010
Work:
Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
Organization:
Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual & Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
2009 Politics 368 pagesUnfriendly Fire argues that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy banning openly gay servicemen and women from the United States armed forces weakened the military and national security. According to Frank, 12,000 people — 800 of whom had previously been deemed "mission critical" by the U.S. government — were discharged from the military between 1993 and 2008, based on policies rooted in denial, deception, and repression.
Unit cohesionLGBT rights in the militaryDon't Ask, Don't TellGay banMilitary leadership prejudice
Bibliography
- Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
Legacy
Recognized for his analysis of LGBT issues in the military, his book Unfriendly Fire received the Stonewall Book Award in 2010 from the American Library Association.
Trivia
- On February 28, 2013, at a pretrial hearing in her court-martial, Chelsea Manning testified that in early 2010 she had nicknamed her anonymous WikiLeaks contact 'Nathaniel Frank,' after the author of a book she read in 2009.