DADT

Now that don't ask don't tell is gone, it is inevitable that unequal treatment is still present.  How does one soldier's sexual identity deviate from the military? Why is the topic of homosexuality within the military a taboo subject? What are people so afraid of when it comes to the homosexual lifestyle? Chauncey summarizes that "the anti-gay laws of the 1920s and 1930s were enacted in response to the growing visibility of the gay world and to the challenge it seemed to pose to fragile gender and social arrangements" (356).  Don't ask don't tell was issued to "stabilized a fragile gender and social arrangements" in the army if what Chauncey said was right about anti-gay laws. There wasn't much of a gender issue and social disable here to be discussed. The repeal of DADT took too long. For 17 years, gays and lesbians were required to remain neutral on their sexual preferences, all the while ignoring who they really were. Also, there's still the issues concerning transgenders and women in the military. In Gay New York, Chauncey reiterates again and again that gay men did not have to choose a "gay identity". They could be engaged in homosexual activities and still be consider straight. The situations are way different now. You can't be engaged unless you have a label.