In 1993 Margie Witt, a Air Force nurse, was chosen mainly because the face of the Air Force’s “Combination into the Blue” recruitment campaign. This was also the entire year that Chief executive Clinton’s arrange for gays to serve openly in the armed service was quashed by an obdurate Congress, leading to the blandly cynical political compromise known as Don’t Talk to, Don’t Tell. Contrary to its intention, DADT had the perverse effect of rendering it harder for homosexual servicemen and -women to battle expulsion. Over the next seventeen about Show: Love, Defiance, and the Military Trial in the Tipping Stage for Gay Privileges years more than 13,000 homosexual military, sailors, marines, coast guard, and airmen and -ladies were removed from military service. That is, until Margie Witt’s landmark case put a stop to it.

Tell may be the riveting story of Main Margaret Witt’s dedicated and decorated military career as a frontline air travel nurse, and of her like and devotion to her partner—right now wife—Laurie Johnson. Tell captures the strain and drama from the politically billed legal fight that led to the congressional repeal of the controversial legislation and helped pave just how for a collection of landmark political and legal victories for homosexual rights. Tell is a testament to the power of love to transform hearts and minds, as well as a celebration from the indomitable heart of Major Witt, her wife Laurie, her devoted legal team, as well as the brave women and men who came ahead to testify on her behalf behalf in a historic federal trial.

“The name Margaret Witt may join the canon of US civil rights pioneers.” —Guardian

“Major Witt’s trial provided an unmatched possibility to attack the central premise of [Don’t Ask, Don’t Show] . and set an important precedent.” —NY Times

“A landmark ruling.” —Politico