This volume has many points of origin. Various chapters in this volume will have their own narratives with a beginning and perhaps an end. This introduction will lay groundwork for the following chapters. On my part, I will start for now with the American Psychiatric Association meeting in San Francisco in 2013. A symposium there was titled, “Bringing the Uniform out of the Closet: Artistic and Clinical Perspectives of Gay Military Life Before and After ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’” . I was asked to speak because of my role participating in the Pentagon work group to examine the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). That work group was convened in 2010 to examine how and if to repeal the DADT policy. There my main contribution was pushing the DoD group to move past discussion of fears of battlefeld transmission of HIV, to the positive effects of service members not having to live in fear of exposure of their sexual identity.