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Contents:
- WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
- SD CONFINTIAL: INSI A LOST GAY PAST OF ‘FAIRY DIV,’ RAIDS AND A FALLEN ADMIRAL
- GAY SAILORS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
- "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only plac where homosexual men uld not only be out but also mp. And on some lers to the sun and the New Wor * history of gay sailors *
In the US there is a stereotype/myth/whatever that sailors the Navy tend to be gay. The anti-gay law has ser ramifitns for Dwayne and Jonathan.
When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only plac where homosexual men uld not only be out but also mp. Tro1 Sailor Jack: the Other Si; Chapter 1 When Queer was Covert; Chapter 2 A Place of Freedom; Chapter 3 Speakg Gay Secrets; Chapter 4 Sea Wiv and Meat Racks; Chapter 5 Sequs, Sat and Stilettos; Chapter 6 Ho Land! ; Chapter 7 Part of a Team; Chapter 8 Swallowg the Anchor; Chapter 9 Takg Stock of Gay Heaven;.
SD CONFINTIAL: INSI A LOST GAY PAST OF ‘FAIRY DIV,’ RAIDS AND A FALLEN ADMIRAL
* history of gay sailors *
"What this fascatg book is really about is not 'gay life at sea' general, but the gay ghettos on many lers and ciships durg the fifti and sixti. This is a val addn to the unrstandg of gay and sea history. Transcends s niche as a piece of gay history and, stead, be somethg that has ronanc for all rears, whether gay, straight or somethg between.
By referencg the nearly accintal act of 'sodomy, ' Cleland taps to the popular imprsn that sailors engaged homosexualy. Rictor Norton, at his webse Homosexualy Eighteenth-Century England, has llected an imprsive number of primary sourc, though few reference sailors.
Somethg that be clear Norton's work is that there was ltle or no legal distctn at the time between those who engaged a sgle same-sex act, those who were exclively homosexual, and anyone who fell between. In his A Queer History of the Uned Stat, Michael Bronski pots out that the very term 'homosexual' wasn't vented until 1869 'to help nstct a narrative around a person fed by his or her same-sex sexual sir and actns. We nnot say that sailors who engaged homosexual acts intified as homosexual, nor n we say that others fed them as such before they were nvicted.
GAY SAILORS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
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. * history of gay sailors *
Here I ed the term 'homosexual' to refer to clatns and acts, rather than as fg the sailors themselv.
Brish society believed that a lack of accs to women gave rise to homosexualy, and there was perhaps no place the eighteenth century so exclively male as the navy. The legal notn that one is eher exclively homosexual or heterosexual n be seen the se of William Bailey.
' Today we would regnize the facts as irrelevant to the act self, but eighteenth century law, a sgle homosexual act was equated wh beg exclively homosexual.
"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
Rodger argued his book The Woon World: An Anatomy of the Geian Navy that acts of homosexualy were not as mon the mid-eighteenth century Royal Navy as many assume:. Consirg that the navy oped up thoands of young men for months on end whout accs to women, is surprisg how few homosexual cints rulted prosecutn. Earle agreed that 'the crowd ndns of shipboard life ma difficult to nceal homosexual relatns om other members of the crew.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
Wh the threat of ath hangg over their heads, the unlikelihood of fdg a man wh the same sexual clatns, and the very real chance of tectn, even those men wh homosexual leangs faced many obstacl to actually engagg the act.