"Comg Out Unr Fire": The Story of Gay and Lbian Servicemembers | The Natnal WWII Mm | New Orleans

Contents:

• FILM REVIEW; GAY WORLD WAR II: ABE BY THE MILARY
• "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
• GAY WORLD WAR II HERO ALAN TURG BE FIRST LGBTQ+ PERSON ON BRISH CURRENCY
• NEW WWI MOVIE TO FEATURE A GAY LOVE STORY
• WATCH THE TRAILER FOR GAY WWII DRAMA ‘GREAT FREEDOM’!
• THE LAVENR SRE: GAY AND LBIAN LIFE POST-WWII AMERI

FILM REVIEW; GAY WORLD WAR II: ABE BY THE MILARY

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"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS

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GAY WORLD WAR II HERO ALAN TURG BE FIRST LGBTQ+ PERSON ON BRISH CURRENCY

why Platoon is a gay film, or at the. very least, so rife wh homoerotic subtext that you'd have to be Fred Phelps.

NEW WWI MOVIE TO FEATURE A GAY LOVE STORY

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Ocsnally the digizatn procs troduc transcriptn errors or other problems; we are ntug to work to improve the archived the re of "Comg Out Unr Fire, " Arthur Dong's quietly vastatg documentary film about homosexualy the ary durg World War II, are terviews wh 10 gay men and women who served the armed, like Phillis Abry, a rad technician the Women's Army Corps, were able to rry on homosexual relatnships whout beg tected and received honorable discharg. Others, like Marv Liebman, who was the special servic of the Uned Stat Army Air Corps, were intified as gay, havg "psychopathic" personali, and were discharged as the wch-hunt atmosphere that pervad the ary toward the end of the war, people spected of beg gay were relentlsly terrogated and manipulated to intifyg other homosexuals.

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The mpy publitn, which was circulated privately among gay servicemen, eventually got him to trouble. "Comg Out Unr Fire, " which opens today at the Quad Cema, trac the harng of the ary's anti-homosexual attus as the war progrsed.

At the start of the war, the ary hoped to exclu homosexuals om service simply by askg new recs about their sexual orientatn and excludg those who said they "liked" members of their own sex. As beme clear that thoands of gay men and lbians had chosen to serve, a climate of relative tolerance abptly gave way to an atmosphere of paranoia and nunciatn that creased even after the war end.

The wch-huntg reached s peak the early 50's the McCarthy era when the State Department dismissed hundreds of gay and lbian employe as alleged secury film, which is based on Allan Bebe's history of gay men and women World War II, also has scen suggtg that spe the official nmnatn of homosexualy, gay and straight servicemen and women uld -exist harmonly. Servicemen staged drag entertaments for one another which many of the performers were gay.

THE LAVENR SRE: GAY AND LBIAN LIFE POST-WWII AMERI

Even those who went untected and received honorable discharg rell that when the wch hunts began they had to modify their behavr and start lookg over their film sets the events agast a backdrop of the Congrsnal heargs last year on homosexuals the ary. As the scen make abundantly clear, the Pentagon's view of homosexualy as patible wh ary service remas implable. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 8 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: FILM REVIEW; Gay World War II: Abe by the Milary.

Gay and Lbian soldiers faced extraordary discrimatn durg World War II.