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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berube, Allan (Autor)
Otros Autores: Freedman, Estelle B., 1947- (writer of foreword.), D'Emilio, John (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edición:Twentieth anniversary edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Navy > History > World War, 1939-1945.
United States. > Army > History > World War, 1939-1945.
Gays > United States > History > 20th century.
Gay military personnel > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Gay.
United States > Armed Forces > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction : "why we fight"
  • Getting in
  • Fitting in
  • GI drag : a gay refuge
  • "The gang's all here" : the gay life and vice control
  • The fight for reform
  • Pioneer experts : psychiatrists discover the gay GI
  • Comrades in arms
  • Fighting another war
  • Rights, justice, and a new minority
  • The legacy of the war.

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