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Among the many histories of fighting men and women in World War II, little has been written about the thousands of homosexuals who found themselves fighting two wars--one for their country, the other for their own survival as targets of a military policy that sought their discharge as "undesirables." To write this long overdue chapter of American history, Allan Bérubé spent ten years interviewing ...

Studie, met veel niet eerder vrijgegeven materiaal, over de positie van de nationaal-socialisten, politiek en ideologisch, t.o.v. lesbische vrouwen. Hoewel lesbische vrouwen in eerste instantie niet getroffen werden door paragraaf 175, werd desondanks hun subculturele leven vernietigd. Ze belandden in de kaartenbak van de Rijkscentrale ter Bestrijding van Homoseksualiteit en Abortus, en kwamen soms ...

Omslagtitel. - Op de omslag: A history of gays and lesbians in Holland. 48 p. : ill. ; 30 cm

Interview met regisseur Arthur Dong nav. zijn documentaire gebaseerd op Allan Bérubé's boek Coming out under fire: the history of gay men and women in World War II. Ook aandacht voor zijn volgende project They called us lesbians, over relaties tussen Aziatische- en niet-Aziatische (vnl. blanke) homo's.

The author describes the different roles of women during the Second World War, a war that changed the way women participate in the American society. Described are the lives of wives, mothers and sisters of servicemen; the female defence industry workers, the female entertainers, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), women in the army, Red ...

The result of hundreds of interviews and years of research, this is an oral history of gay men and women in the military, ranging over the past five decades, describing in detail the military's long-standing persecution of lesbians and gay men.

The contributions that have been assembled in this volume present the story of queer lives from the first emancipation movements around the turn of the (last) century via attempts at self-empowerment in the Weimar Republic to the destruction of queer subcultures under the National Socialist regime and the continued discrimination of LGBTIQ* persons in the postwar period. Since the late 19th century, ...

"Going beyond the issue of the persecution of homosexuals and the central role played by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945, this book is the first to examine the daily lives of homosexual men and women in wartime. By bringing together European specialists on the subject, it relates a different history, one which was indeed marked by repression but also by enlistment in armies at war and resistance ...

War has been a key part of the Australian experience and central to many national mythologies. Yet more than most activities, war polarises femininity and masculinity. While there has been no shortage of military history, little has been written about Australia's military involvements from the perspective of gender. This exciting collection of essays explores for the first time the interrelationship ...