Karen Ocamb has an article about David Mixner and how “Don’t
Ask Don’t Tell” happened in the Washington Blade (p 12) and Los Amgeles Blade,
Dec 21.
The subtitle is “Mixner on how it happened – and Clinton’s
Betrayal”.
That refers to Clinton’s DADT policy announcement at Ft. McNair
on July 19, 1993. But it was an “honest compromise” with Sam Nunn at the time,
and included the other logline, “don’t pursue’.
The article includes details about the cases of Keith
Meinhold and Tracy Thorne. The video above comes from the 1993 March on Washington.
This all brings up the issue of David Mixner’s 1996 book “Stranger
Among Friends”, Bantam, ISBN 0-553-10073-4. I read this while working on my DADT-1 book in the 1990s.
Mixner had recounted how he was “setup” in 1969 by imposters
from the FBI to find out he was gay.
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