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

During the Second World War the two largest women's services, the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), responded pragmatically to the presence of lesbians in their ranks. Such disinterest arguably stemmed from the need to retain valuable personnel in a time of great instability. This article seeks to illuminate the responses of both services within the context ...

On 5 September 2007, the Homomonument reaches the age of 20. This, of course, is cause for celebration and a coalition of organisations has organised two days of festivities to be held during the weekend following the official birthday on Wednesday, September 5, 2007. There are interviews with well-known and unknown speakers from the gay community, a number of prominent figures including the city mayor, ...

A Czech Holocaust survivor rescued by a Kindertransport in 1939; a long-lost Torah scroll, rediscovered in 1964, from a Jewish community wiped out in World War II; a German American lesbian who converted to Judaism in 2001. Three disparate stories, unfolding decades apart, converge in one memorable encounter, a Kristallnacht commemoration in Los Angeles organized by Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC), the ...

Verslag van een onderzoek naar de dossiers die de Amerikaanse FBI bijhield over van Klaus en Erika Mann. Erika sprak vrijwillig met de FBI over haar vader en andere emigranten.

This brochure is composed of chosen texts from a traveling exhibition against homophobia in Poland organized by the Campaign Against Homophobia as part of the Berlin-Yogyakarta Project. This project aims to bring to light the persecution of non-heterosexual people by the Nazis during their occupation of Europe. It underlines the fact that human rights are inalienable of all people, including lesbians, ...

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.

Verslag van vier tentoonstellingen die in Berlijn en New York plaatsvinden. Op de expositie 'Homosexualität en' presenteren het Schwules Museum en het Deutsches Historisches Museum een overzichtstentoonstelling over de geschiedenis, politiek en cultuur van homoseksualiteit. De tentoonstelling in het Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York neemt de inspanningen van het nazi-regime onder de loep homoseksualiteit ...

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 ...

This article discusses an unpublished book by the popular and prolific novelist Pamela Frankau (1908-67), which was rejected by her publishers in 1946 as 'almost too personal for publication,' and which for many years was believed lost. The work is addressed to Frankau's dead lover, Marjorie Vernon Whitefoord (1907-44), a fellow officer in the women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, and takes the form ...

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 ...

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.