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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.
- Title
- 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.
- Author
- Bérubé, Allan
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
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- Description
- xiii, 377 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
- 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 Bérubé 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.
- Alternative 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
- Subjects
- Gay people > United States > History > 20th century
- History
- 1900-1999
- World War > (1939-1945)
- United States > Navy > History > World War, 1939-1945
- United States > Army > History > World War, 1939-1945
- United States > Armed Forces > History > 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Gay
- Gay military personnel > United States > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "Published by arrangements with the Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schouster, Inc."--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-359) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 080787177X (pbk.)
- 9780807871775 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^89025653^
- OCLC
- 667230935
- SCSB-11767386
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library