1. Gates GJ. Discharges under the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy: women and racial/ethnic minorities. 2010. http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/category/research/military-related/#sthash.ikBT7Fr9.dpuf . Accessed 11 Sept 2013. Provides excellent discharge statistics on the LGBT service members.
2. Kerrigan MF. Transgender discrimination in the military: the new Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Psychol Public Policy Law. 2012;18(3):500–18.
3. United States Department of Defense. Qualification standards for enlistment, appointment, and induction. Washington, D.C.: DoD Directive 1304.26″, March 4, 1994. http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blaw/dodd/corres/pdf/d130426wch1_122193/d130426p.pdfAccessed 11 Sept 2013.
4. Bérubé A. Coming out under fire: the history of gay men and women in World War II. Univ of North Carolina Press; 2010. This book provides an excellent history of lesbian and gay service members in the U.S. military.
5. RAND Corporation. Sexual orientation and U.S. military personnel policy: an update of RAND’s 1993 study, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, MG-1056-OSD. 2010. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1056.html . Accessed 24 December 2015. This independent report debunks many of the arguments against LGBT civilians from serving in the military.