s and lesbians will require a lot of work and cannot be fixed overnight. Solutions are time consuming, but will overall provide a better way of running the nations military. The first step is to establish clear norms that sexual orientation is irrelevant to performing ones duty and that everyone should be judged on his own merits. The next step is to establish and teach false stereotypes about gay men and lesbians through education and sensitivity training for all personnel. Next, setting uniform standards for public conduct that would apply equally to heterosexual and homosexual personnel will make it clear that everyone is affected by these new rules. To reduce and ultimately stop harassment, the military will have to establish that all sexual harassment is unacceptable regardless of the genders or sexual orientations of individuals involved. And finally, everyone has to take a firm and highly publicized stand that violence against gay personnel is unacceptable and will be punished quickly and severely. (Herek 3 of 5) These ideas for a new and totally rebuilt policy will not hurt, but help everyone involved. Ultimately these ideas would make homosexuality less of an issue in the work place as well as society. They would also make life easier and fairer to everyone, and finally would create a better way of living....
