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Coming out under fire : the history of gay men and women in World War II / Allan Bérubé ; with a new foreword by John D'Emilio & Estelle B. Freedman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.Edition: 20th anniversary edDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807899649
  • 080789964X
  • 9781469604596
  • 1469604590
Other title:
  • History of gay men and women in World War II
  • History of gay men and women in World War Two
  • Gay men and women in World War II
  • Gay men and women in World War Two
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Coming out under fire.DDC classification:
  • 940.541273 22
LOC classification:
  • D769.2 .B46 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
"Why we fight" -- Getting in -- Fitting in -- GI drag : a gay refuge -- "Gang's all here" : the gay life and vice control -- Fight for reform -- Pioneer experts : psychiatrists discover the gay GI -- Comrades in arms -- Fighting another war -- Rights, justice, and a new minority -- Legacy of the war.
Summary: During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontations-not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how a dynamic power relationship developed between gay citizens and their government, transforming them both. Drawing on GIs' wartime letters, extensive int.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-359) and index.

"Why we fight" -- Getting in -- Fitting in -- GI drag : a gay refuge -- "Gang's all here" : the gay life and vice control -- Fight for reform -- Pioneer experts : psychiatrists discover the gay GI -- Comrades in arms -- Fighting another war -- Rights, justice, and a new minority -- Legacy of the war.

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During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontations-not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how a dynamic power relationship developed between gay citizens and their government, transforming them both. Drawing on GIs' wartime letters, extensive int.

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