Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) on Netflix
Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer is a decorated Army nurse of over twenty years. She discloses her lesbian identity in a security clearance interview, and the Army opens discharge proceedings.
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Plot summary
Margarethe Cammermeyer has spent more than twenty years in the Army as a nurse and colonel, with a tour of duty in Vietnam. She meets Diane, a painter, and accepts her lesbian identity. She discloses it during a security clearance interview, and the Army starts proceedings to discharge her under the rules that bar gay service members, making her the highest-ranking officer ever discharged for being a lesbian. Diane stands with her, and her family and colleagues support her as she brings a legal challenge to the discharge. The rules in force come before "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the policy introduced in 1993.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)
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- In 1989, Army nurse Margarethe Cammermeyer disclosed her homosexuality during a security clearance interview and was discharged under military regulations, becoming the highest-ranking officer ever removed for sexual orientation. A federal judge in Seattle ordered her reinstated in 1994, and her case led to the making of the film.
- Barbra Streisand produced the film for NBC, which was her television producing debut; Glenn Close, Cis Corman, Neil Meron and Craig Zadan served as executive producers.
- Screenwriter Alison Cross met Cammermeyer and her family in Seattle before writing the script, and Cammermeyer visited the Vancouver set to advise Glenn Close on military detail.
