Belkin, Aaron, and Geoffrey Bateman. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Debating the Gay Ban in the Military. Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Debating the Gay Ban in the Military, published in 2003, is a secondary source in the form of a book. It was designed to inform a general audience with an interest in the history of homosexuals. Aaron Belkin, one author of the book, is a writer with three books about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and gays in the military. He is a political science professor at San Francisco State University, and he is a director for Palm Center. Palm Center is a research center that studies gays in the military and focused specifically on the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy for 13 years. It can be …show more content…
Defense Force Management: DOD’s Policy on Homosexuality. Government Printing Office, 1992. GAO: Government Accountability Office. Accessed 30 Nov. 2017. Defense Force Management: DOD’s Policy on Homosexuality is a report written on June 12, 1992 to congressional requestors. Members of the House of Representatives had requested a review on the policy excluding homosexuals from the military. The report includes statistical facts of the outcomes of the policy, the public’s responses and attitudes toward the implementation of the policy, and the cost for investigations of possible homosexuality and the cost for possible replacements of homosexuals. The report was written by The National Security and International Affairs Division of the Government Accounting Office (GAO). The GAO is a branch of the government that is responsible for investigations and evaluations. The role of the GAO makes them an reputable source as their main purpose is to write reports and reviews such as the Defense Force Management: DOD’s Policy on Homosexuality. They do not have a bias because their intention is to provide facts about different policies and issues. As the report is based solely on facts and does not make any claims, any possible bias of the authors cannot affect the paper. Additionally, as the source is a review, the Office would be imputing false information if it were to use a biased