Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II
Title | Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2010 |
Authors | Bérubé, Allan |
Edition | 20th Anniversary |
Number of Pages | 377 |
Publisher | University of North Carolina Press |
City | Chapel Hill |
Abstract | 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, Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontation—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 interviews with gay veterans, and declassified military documents, Bérubé thoughtfully constructs a startling history of the two wars gay military men and women fough--one for America and another as homosexuals within the military. Berube's book, the inspiration for the 1995 Peabody Award-winning documentary film of the same name, has become a classic since it was published in 1990, just three years prior to the controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which has continued to serve as an uneasy compromise between gays and the military. [UNC Chapel Hill Libraries] |
URL | http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=343674 |
Original Publication | 1st ed. (New York: Free Press, 1990). |
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- 15. War and Gender: The Age of the World Wars and its Aftermath—An Overview
- 18. Citizenship and Gender on the American and Canadian Homefronts during the First and Second World Wars
- 20. States, Military Masculinity, and Combat in the Age of World Wars
- 28. Post-1945 Western Military Masculinities, Female Soldiers and Gay and Lesbian Rights
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