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 | | Such discharges were generally classified as less-than-honorable, or “blue”. However, imprisonment for homosexual conduct did continue to occur (Shilts, 1993; Jennings, 1994); for example, the Army convicted 34 soldiers for sodomy and related offenses from July 1938 to May 1941 (Berube, 1990). |
 | | Military personnel, members of advocacy groups, and social scientists told researchers, “[T]here was no significant threat to unit cohesion or organizational performance created by the presence of homosexuals in their militaries” (National Defense Research Institute, 1993, p. |
 | | Hatter further ruled that the military’s ban on sexual minorities was unconstitutional and permanently denied the military from “discharging or denying enlistment to any person based on sexual orientation in the absence of sexual conduct which interferes with the military mission of the armed forces of the United States” (Marcus and Dewar, 1993, p. |
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