Coming out under fire : the history of gay men and women in World War II
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
eBook, English, ©2010
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University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2010
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1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
9780807899649, 9781469604596, 080789964X, 1469604590
698092040
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