After “Don’t ask don’t tell”: Competent care of lesbian, gay and bisexual military personnel during the DoD policy transition.

Johnson, W. Brad; Rosenstein, Judith E.; Buhrke, Robin A.; Haldeman, Douglas C.

doi:10.1037/a0033051

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“…We posited that, despite a traditionally adverse environment in the military for LGB individuals (Johnson, Rosenstein, Buhrke, & Haldeman, 2015), the positive implications of disclosure (i.e., high outness) would yield a net positive influence on mental health. This hypothesis was mostly supported, as higher outness was significantly associated with lower depression symptoms and approached significance in relation to lower anxiety symptoms.…”

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Military Service Members’ Satisfaction With Outness: Implications for Mental Health

Evans

Bliss

Rincón

et al. 2018

Armed Forces & Society

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This study is among the first examining lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) service members in the United States following the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy repeal. Higher levels of outness predict better mental health among general LGB populations. The military environment, like other traditional/conservative settings, may alter this relation; however, no data are available on outness among LGB service members in the United States. We examined 236 service members’ level of outness and satisfaction with outness in relation to depression and anxiety symptoms. Results revealed greater level of outness was related to higher satisfaction with outness, with each variable related to better mental health. Importantly, satisfaction fully mediated the relation between level of outness and mental health, indicating satisfaction to be a more salient predictor than level alone. Findings relevant to military policy makers and health-care providers are discussed along with recommendations for advancement of research into outness among LGB people.

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Military Service Members’ Satisfaction With Outness: Implications for Mental Health

Evans

Bliss

Rincón

et al. 2018

Armed Forces & Society

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“…Such critics anticipated the continued isolation and closeting of LGB servicemembers (Rich et al, ) or even an upsurge in homophobic violence in the wake of the repeal (Burks, ). Mental health professionals in the field warned of increased stress and suicide risk post‐repeal (Johnson, Rosenstein, Buhrke, & Haldeman, ; Wilder & Wilder, ). The limited scope of the Repeal Act (excluding trans soldiers, leaving sodomy statues intact, no nondiscrimination policy changes) led some to believe that it would not significantly disrupt the entrenched values of sexism and heterosexism, and that that could have an especially negative impact on queer women who choose to serve openly after the repeal (Banner, ).…”

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“Now that we can ask and tell: The social movement legacy of the DADT repeal”

Connell

2017

Sociology Compass

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The 2010 Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal Act, along with the 2016 DOD announcement regarding the impending inclusion of transgender soldiers, created the possibility of open and unsanctioned military service for LGBTQs for the first time in US history. This article provides an overview of how these policy changes came about, from the emergence of DADT to the legal and activist challenges to its legitimacy, including its ultimate repeal and the subsequent move to extend open service to transgender people. After summarizing what we know so far about how the repeal has (and has not) changed the experience of service for LGBTQs, I consider how these policy changes have been received and interpreted by LGBTQ activists and scholars. Open military service is either viewed as one of the most exciting or the most damning developments of LGBTQ organizing in the 21st century, according to the two most prominent activist perspectives. This review outlines the key arguments of each perspective and concludes by considering the value of reconciling these disparate vantage points when analyzing the future of LGBTQ social movement strategy.

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“…Psychology has helped develop the field of LGBT studies in the military with significant work by such scholars as Burke (2011) [4], Cameron et al (2011) [5], Fingerhut (2011) [6], Ramirez (2013) [16] and Johnson (2015) [9]. Of special interest for this article is the work by Johnson and his colleagues specifically because of their first-hand knowledge of the United States Naval Academy.…”

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LGBT at USNA

Fujimura¹,

Navarro²

2016

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This research addresses significant cultural changes in terms of gender relations that are occurring in the United States military today and in particular at the academy level. This article focuses on the LGBT community at the United States Naval Academy and posits that, in order to fully understand and support the success of LGBT midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, it is important to understand the diversity of the LGBT community in general from a grassroots perspective. Depending on self-identification and the process in self-identification of individual midshipmen, for example, experiences vary greatly. This paper seeks to analyze the experiences of those individuals identifying as LGBT at USNA based on an ethnographic study involving the collection of coming-out stories by and interviews with midshipmen as well as participant-observation research in the community. It is the researcher's initial conclusion that a support network for LGBT midshipmen is essential when it comes to their development as young adults, as officers and as potential leaders in the military.

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After “Don’t ask don’t tell”: Competent care of lesbian, gay and bisexual military personnel during the DoD policy transition.

Cited by 28 publications

References 38 publications

Military Service Members’ Satisfaction With Outness: Implications for Mental Health

Military Service Members’ Satisfaction With Outness: Implications for Mental Health

“Now that we can ask and tell: The social movement legacy of the DADT repeal”

LGBT at USNA

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