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

Stephen Snyder-Hill

Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Country
United States
Published
12 May 2016
Pages
240
ISBN
9781612348162

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

Stephen Snyder-Hill

When the U.S. military repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, its official policy on homosexuality in the services, Captain Stephen Snyder-Hill was serving in Iraq.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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