Title: Military Secret Author: Graham, Robert David Published by: Monument Press, 1991 ISBN: 0-930383-41-9 [trade paperback, 375 pages]
Robert David Graham was admitted into the US Navy after killing a man and discharged for wanting to love one. Military Secret exposes the Navy's double standard: from encouraging homosexuality during nautical rites of passage to expelling sailors engaged in the same rites when ashore; from sanctioning porn among officers but penalizing enlisted men for having it - it's all here in this fast-paced biography, by a veteran of Operation Desert Storm.Much about this book has faded in my memory, except the bitter sweet epic quest for the attentions of "Sweet Pea," one of Graham's shipmates.
Graham was in the U.S. Navy during Operation Desert Storm. He tells of his civilian life ashore in California and his undercover gay life as a sailor at sea. This is his personal, and somewhat mundane, account.
The book was written in the milieu of gay activism to expose the hypocrisy of the military demanding gays stay to fight a possible war, and then throwing them out. - Texas FitzGerald
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