| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-359) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.
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United States. Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.
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United States. Army fast |
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United States. Navy fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Gay.
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Gay military personnel -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Gay people -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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Armed Forces
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Gay military personnel
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Gay people
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Armed Forces -- History -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004448
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
D'Emilio, John.
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Freedman, Estelle B., 1947-
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| ISBN |
9780807899649 |
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080789964X |
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9781469604596 |
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1469604590 |
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