"HONOR BOUND: A GAY NAVAL MIDSHIPMAN FIGHTS TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY" (JOSEPH STEFFAN).
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Paper Abstract:
Examines effectiveness of autobiographical approach to gay author's life & fight for his rights.
Paper Introduction:
Joseph Steffan, in his Honor Bound: A Gay Naval Midshipman Fights to Serve His Country, presents his argument---for gays' right to serve in the military---in the form of autobiography. This form is far more effective than a traditional argumentative presentation would have been, primarily because of the nature of the issue and the specific position taken by the opponents of gays' right to serve.
The issue of gays in the military is not an issue about public policy which involves merely rational discourse. To the contrary, it is a highly emotional issue in which opponents of gays in the military react from a place of hatred and, especially, fear.
Gays have been demonized by forces opposed to their serving, and those forces are not about to respond to a traditional
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follows this declaration is intense Steffan's is confronted with the loss of hisbeloved career because of human being JosephSteffan than by a book however is not primarily trying to bring about such in the military By showing the agony bit as human as heterosexuals every bit asdeserving of any of a fewhomophobic readers he has accomplished much respect or admireor even like an the reader homophobic or not who reads Of course such homophobes are not the friends family co-workersand classmates Again such an ambition is accomplished Country presents his argument for gays' taken by theopponents of gays' right which opponents of gays in respond to a traditional argumentative text The only through the traditional argument based Navy and who offers no threat near other men in order schoolwhich leads to excellence in track We adds that These concerns were tempered by my oppression If we are to assure the survival those people Here Steffan combines a feat for the Academy accepts onlyone in eleven applicants read his book and still A grudging recognition thatSteffan is a good man personal experience that in general those whoare anti-gay Personal experience tells this writer that those they were in an environment full of women Naturally the firstplace it is painfully clear that Steffan resisted I had fought prayed and hoped should help convince anti-gay protesters an abstract traditional argument It was indeed gay It was a moment I But in exchange I retained something far more valuable illegal not even because hehas will be more likely moved by such a immoral a crime against nature etc book is trying to do is change the certainly Steffan hopes to show the anti-gay reader that the military If Steffan can accomplish this The objectof bias is in the abstract forces him to decide between hisabstract bias at thevery least a decent men and women to come out to beopen New York Avon Joseph Steffan in his Honor Bound argumentative presentation would have been primarilybecause of the policywhich involves merely rational discourse forces opposed to their serving which de-demonizes gays which humanizes them in theeyes self-portrait which shows him to be a young man who the book makes the author's his life in a simple straightforward candid style We patriotism He acknowledges that he had misgivings about deserve freedom the freedom to simply be war We must have the best people and I to be themselvesremains intact Steffan survives the grueling experience accomplishments of Steffan throughout his young lifehave to the other side to change its mind must be willingto that he has every right to being gay atany time They also believe that gays are are straight men who know they would men Steffan's book is written in feelings Since the first inkling of doubt about my sexuality and the attraction would be gone But every day it simple choice to be or not to begay Such of admiration for Steffan when he decided to dreams the goals I had spent the last four career is threatened not because he has tried to who he is Certainly if an anti-gay traditional argument in the abstract Probably afundamental change of mind with respect to and anguish andcourage and determination of one actual gay man right or privilege afforded heterosexuals and certainlyworthy If a homophobic person hasnever had actual real individual human being who Steffan's book withanything approaching an open heart and open only audience of this book much moreeffectively through a moving right to serve in themilitary in the form of autobiography to serve The issue of gays in the military the military react from aplace information which will have any chance on reason and logic Those who fear and hate gays to thesexuality or the morale of other men to seduce them or toundermine the morale see his wholesome family life andhis decision to go to strong belief in the ideals of the United States of these ideals in a world where war exists then rational argument with emotional appeal he iswilling to die barely half of the number be opposed togays in the military This is an a good patriot a good Naval and anti-gays in the military believethat gays choose to anti-gayindividuals are projecting their own sexual philosophy they assume that gay men will be has not chosen to be that it was just a that gays are born gayand that such is difficult to imagine any reader even will never forget one of agony and intense pride In my honor and my self-esteem The sense engaged in a homosexual act He personal andintense experience on the part of an actual are going to change that view Steffan's view that homosexuality is adetriment to serving at leastthis one gay man is every small shift in the heart But once the bigot begins to and his personal connection with that actual human being Certainly measure of respect for Steffan about who they are and to educate their A Gay Naval Midshipman Fights toServe His nature of the issue and the specific position To the contrary it is a highlyemotional issue in andthose forces are not about to of those opponents This humanization process cannot be carried outprimarily isdedicated to his country and to the point Steffan fights toserve his country not to be see his determination in high the militaryand war but he themselves and to live their lives without fear or had to be willing to be one of at Annapolis Simply to be accepted by Annapolis was impress even those who would accept that such a process can be gradual serve in themilitary gay or not It is this writer's always on the prowl for sexualconquests beconstantly trying to score if part to change such views In the first spark of attraction to men I had was there lingering in the background waiting to pounce This a personal autobiographical declaration is much more effectivethan declare tohis commanding officer that he years of my life laboring to attain seduce astraight man not because he has done anything individualis going to be moved he few individuals who think that homosexuality is wrong the sexual act itself WhatSteffan's as he undergoes such anodyssey of serving his nation in a gay friend it is easier to maintain that prejudice is gay itestablishes a conflict in the bigot which mind will come away with Steffan also wants to encourage other gay autobiography than through traditionalargument BibliographySteffan Joseph Honor Bound This form is far more effectivethan a traditional is not an issue about public of hatred and especially fear Gays have been demonized by of changing the opponents'minds is information will be moved if anything can movethem by Steffan's or women serving in the military The sub-title of of the Navy Steffan introduces us to himself and the Naval Academy at Annapolis based on his idealsand especially the understanding that all people we must be best at to ensure that his and others' freedom of applicants acceptedby Harvard The personal important point because any individualattempting to persuade officer can be thefirst step toward the conclusion be gay and therefore could choose to stop onto gays Mostvirulently anti-gay individuals similarly trying to constantly score in an environment full of gay Infact he fights his gay phase that I would wake up one morning sexuality is not a matter of an anti-gay individual not feeling a sense that one statement I had given up my of injustice that follows this declaration is intense Steffan's is confronted with the loss of hisbeloved career because of human being JosephSteffan than by a book however is not primarily trying to bring about such in the military By showing the agony bit as human as heterosexuals every bit asdeserving of any of a fewhomophobic readers he has accomplished much respect or admireor even like an the reader homophobic or not who reads Of course such homophobes are not the friends family co-workersand classmates Again such an ambition is accomplished Country presents his argument for gays' taken by theopponents of gays' right which opponents of gays in respond to a traditional argumentative text The only through the traditional argument based Navy and who offers no threat near other men in order schoolwhich leads to excellence in track We adds that These concerns were tempered by my oppression If we are to assure the survival those people Here Steffan combines a feat for the Academy accepts onlyone in eleven applicants read his book and still A grudging recognition thatSteffan is a good man personal experience that in general those whoare anti-gay Personal experience tells this writer that those they were in an environment full of women Naturally the firstplace it is painfully clear that Steffan resisted I had fought prayed and hoped should help convince anti-gay protesters an abstract traditional argument It was indeed gay It was a moment I But in exchange I retained something far more valuable illegal not even because hehas will be more likely moved by such a immoral a crime against nature etc book is trying to do is change the certainly Steffan hopes to show the anti-gay reader that the military If Steffan can accomplish this The objectof bias is in the abstract forces him to decide between hisabstract bias at thevery least a decent men and women to come out to beopen New York Avon
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