The credible stori of the gay men who fought for the Brish durg the two world wars has been revealed a new book - on the 50th anniversary of the crimalisatn of homosexualy.
Contents:
- PRIMARY SOURCE SET: GAY MEN THE ARY
- "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
- IN WWII, TWO GAY SOLDIERS’ FORBIDN ROMANCE LIV ON IN THEIR LOVE LETTERS
- GAYS THE MILARY SHOWS THOSE WHO FIGHT WARS AND PREJUDICE
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
- THE FOTTEN GAY SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- A GAY SOLDIER'S STORY
- HIGHLIGHTG GAY SOLDIERS WW2
- LETTERS REVEAL THE STORI OF GAY SOLDIERS WORLD WARS
PRIMARY SOURCE SET: GAY MEN THE ARY
Gay and Lbian soldiers faced extraordary discrimatn durg World War II. Most found new muni of people and thrived spe the opprsn. Disver the film Comg Out Unr Fire that shar their story. * gay soldiers of ww2 *
Topics clu blue discharg; servg durg the Send World War; gay life and relatnships durg the Vietnam era; and servg unr Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Liebman and more than 9, 000 Amerin servicemembers, however, eventually were given a Sectn 8 "blue discharge" for beg homosexual.
The 1994 documentary Comg Out Unr Fire giv voice to the experienc of thoands of gay and lbian servicemembers who joed the ary durg World War II, a story that is largely ignored by historians and mms across the untry.
"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
A New York-based photographer spent three years travelg the untry photographg and terviewg gay serviceman to share their stori of supprsn, sadns and silence. * gay soldiers of ww2 *
At the time, homosexualy was classified as a mental illns by the medil muny; mental illns was one ndn that disqualified young people om service.
IN WWII, TWO GAY SOLDIERS’ FORBIDN ROMANCE LIV ON IN THEIR LOVE LETTERS
The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy and persecuted gay men between 1933 and 1945. * gay soldiers of ww2 *
Gay and lbian recs were forced to answer qutns vaguely, or lie about their sexualy, orr to be allowed to serve; otherwise, they would n the risk of beg sent home and brand as “sex perverts.
The new iendships gave gay and lbian GIs refuge om the hostily that surround them and allowed for a distct subculture to velop wh the ary.
Servicemembers on every waront enjoyed drag show entertament; an entire gay lexin was veloped om the wrgs of Dorothy Parker; and eventually an unrground queer newspaper emerged.
GAYS THE MILARY SHOWS THOSE WHO FIGHT WARS AND PREJUDICE
PETER TATCHELL tells the movg story of a gay soldier durg WW2, PRIVATE DUDLEY CAVE. Havg risked his ... * gay soldiers of ww2 *
The irony that the ary selected two homosexuals to reprent the ial image of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was not lost on Abry.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
Disver the untold stori of gay soldiers WW2, their stggl, and their urage on * gay soldiers of ww2 *
The feral discrimatory actns drove LGBTQ people further to the shadows of society and embolned law enforcement and policians, who beme more vlent toward gay and lbian cizens.
Gay and lbian veterans of World War II beme some of the first to fight ary discrimatn and blue discharg the years followg the war.
My only hope is that anizatns around the untry m to pturg the voic of gay, lbian, and transgenr veterans and that we fd a place our history to honor their service as well. We sat down wh Sir John Dermot Turg, Alan Turg’s nephew and thor of a new book on Bletchley Park, to discs his uncle’s role pivotal role puter science and his persecutn for beg gay the 1950s.
THE FOTTEN GAY SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
If he was found out, was likely that he would serve time prison, or even get shot by a homophobic soldier, and left for ad. For years, they had dreams of leavg England and movg to the Uned Stat, where they uld live sunny California, which was known for beg more acceptg of homosexuals.
Photographg and terviewg gay veterans and servicemen to share their stori of supprsn, sadns and silence a movg photo say. Vcent Cianni, 63, said he embarked on the project, Gays the Milary, to better unrstand why homosexuals would enlist the ary to beg wh; voluntarily signg up for a system that did, and many ways still do, opprs them. A major turng pot for gay people the ary me 2011 wh the overturng of Dont Ask Don't Tell (DADT), a disuragg policy signed by Bill Clton 1993 that ntued a ban on gay soldiers enlistg, but stopped vtigatns and 'wch hunts' to whether soldiers were bill was signed to protect the soldiers by keepg their sexualy a secret, however forced them to the closet and further ternalized their stggl.
A GAY SOLDIER'S STORY
Gay and the ary: Zachary Werth (left), says he was discharged om the Army Natnal Guard 2010 bee of his sexualy, while his boyiend, Dt Hiersekorn (right) left the Mare Corps due to medil reasons. They are one of the upl who appear Gays the Milary, a stunng photo say by Vcent Cianni documentg the stori of homosexual soldiers Veteran: Pl Goercke, of San Francis, is a World War II veteran who served Okawa, Hawaii and Saipan, said there was 'no evince of gay life' when he enlisted wh the Merchant Mar when he was 18 'The person I was datg was olr than me and had been the Navy que a b longer.
He has served sce 2002 and is still servgBefore DADT, which was enacted 1993, homosexual behavr was nsired a crimal offense wh the ary. It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power.
However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men. The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”). In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach.
HIGHLIGHTG GAY SOLDIERS WW2
Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works. In a further latn, the Nazis ed new laws and police practic to arrt and ta whout trial a limed number of gay men begng late 1933 and early 1934.
Three events the years 1934–1936 radilized the Nazi regime’s mpaign agast homosexualy and led to more systematic opprsn of gay men. Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung).
The notorly homophobic Himmler saw both homosexualy and abortn as threats to the German birth rate and th to the fate of the German people. For example, gay men tegorized by the Nazi regime as Aryan had far more optns than those tegorized as Jews or Roma (Gypsi). Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175.
LETTERS REVEAL THE STORI OF GAY SOLDIERS WORLD WARS
The efforts of scholars and German gay rights anizatns have helped to brg the persecutn of gay men unr the Nazis to the public eye. In the 1990s, the German ernment acknowledged “persecuted homosexuals” (“verfolgten Homosexuellen”) as victims of the Nazi regime. For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them.