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.

  • Bérubé, Allan.
Date:
[2010], ©2010
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010], ©2010.

Physical description

xiii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contributors

Edition

20th anniversary ed.

Notes

"Published by arrangements with the Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schouster, Inc."--T.p. verso.

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-359) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TPO.6.AA9
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 080787177X
  • 9780807871775