He currently teaches political science at San Francisco State University and was the director of the Palm Center, a think tank that commissioned and disseminated research on gender, sexuality and the military.
[3] He is a graduate of Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio, where he was a friend and the prom date of LGBT activist Roberta A.
His 2011 book How We Won outlines these strategies and shows how building public support to end DADT in turn, made it an issue that politicians had to spend less political capital to address.
Belkin claimed that the research and evidence always indicated that ending DADT would not in any way destabilize the military, but building a critical mass of public and political support took over a decade of focused action.
[7] After the success of the campaign to repeal DADT, he turned his attention to engaging in a national policy conversation on "military service by transgender personnel".