article_snippet.sent: I couldn't understand why anyone would join the Military, much less why gay people would join the military, an organization that shunned gay people.'
article_snippet.sent: A major turning point for gay people in the Military came in 2011 with the overturning of
article_snippet.sent: Don't Tell (DADT), a discouraging policy signed by Bill Clinton in 1993 that continued a ban on gay soldiers enlisting, but stopped investigations and 'witch hunts' into whether soldiers were gay.
article_snippet.sent: a discouraging policy signed by Bill Clinton in 1993 that continued a ban on gay soldiers enlisting was designed to protect gay soldiers by keeping gay soldiers sexuality a secret, however a discouraging policy signed by Bill Clinton in 1993 that continued a ban on gay soldiers enlisting forced gay soldiers into the closet and further internalized gay soldiers struggles.
article_snippet.sent: Gay and in the Military: Zachary Werth (left), says Zachary Werth was discharged from the Army National Guard in 2010 because of Zachary Werth sexuality, while Zachary Werth boyfriend, Dustin Hiersekorn (right) left the Marine Corps due to medical reasons.
article_snippet.sent: his boyfriend, Dustin Hiersekorn (right) are one of the couples who appear in Gays in the Military, a stunning photo essay by Vincent Cianni documenting the stories of homosexual soldiers .
article_snippet.sent: Paul Goercke, of San Francisco, is a World War II veteran who served in Okinawa, Hawaii and Saipan, said there was 'no evidence of gay life' when he enlisted with the Merchant Marines when he was 18 . '
article_snippet.sent: Before DADT, which was enacted in 1993, homosexual behavior was considered a criminal offense within the military. '
article_snippet.sent: Gays in the military was published by Daylight Books in May 2014.
article_snippet.sent: Gays in the Military is archived at the David M. Rubestein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University and is available as an exhibition and multi-media installation. '
article_snippet.sent: As far as actually getting into a real gay relationship, that didn't come until the military.
article_snippet.sent: And then the active or passive partner defined sodomy,' says Travis, of Chicago, who joined the Navy in 1963 . '
article_snippet.sent: In 1968, everybody was in the closet, inside the military or outside the military.
highlights_snippet.sent: Photo essay book, Gays in the Military, released by New York photographer Vincent Cianni .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Individual stories tell the history of homosexuals in the Military .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Being gay was considered a criminal offense in the U.S. military until 1993 .