TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bérubé,Allan
AU  - D'Emilio,John
AU  - Freedman,Estelle B.
TI  - Coming out under fire: the history of gay men and women in World War II 
SN  - 9780807899649
AV  - D769.2 .B46 2010eb
U1  - 940.541273 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - History
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Navy
KW  - fast
KW  - Participation, Gay
KW  - Gay military personnel
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Gay people
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
KW  - Participation homosexuelle
KW  - Personnes homosexuelles
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Military
KW  - World War II
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Gay Studies
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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