Aaron Belkin is director of the Palm Center, a nonprofit think-tank that works on issues related to sexual minorities in the military, and a professor of political science at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Facade of American Empire and How We Won: Progressive Lessons from the Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.
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