SANTA BARBARA, CA – July 15, 2011 – The Palm Center is pleased to announce that the article “Attitudes of Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans toward Gay and Lesbian Service Members” was the most-downloaded article in 2010 from the journal in which it was published, Armed Forces and Society. The article, co-authored by Palm Center Scholar Bonnie Moradi and Laura Miller of the RAND Corporation, featured a statistical experiment on whether the “outness” of gay or lesbian service members impacted the cohesion of their units. The resulting data found no evidence for the conclusion that open gay and lesbian service damaged unit cohesion.
The report is available at the link below:
afs.sagepub.com/content/36/3/397.full.pdf+html?ijkey=K4Zdyxf.WnIn.&keytype=ref&siteid=spafs&utm_source=eNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1J22
The Palm Center, a part of the Williams Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles, is committed to sponsoring state-of-the-art scholarship to enhance the quality of public dialogue about critical and controversial issues of the day. For the past decade, the Palm Center’s research on sexual minorities in the military has been published in leading social scientific journals. The Palm Center seeks to be a resource for university-affiliated as well as independent scholars, students, journalists, opinion leaders, and members of the public. For more information, see www.palmcenter.org.