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Sailors and sexual identity : crossing the line between "straight" and "gay" in the U.S. Navy
- Author
- Zeeland, Steven.
- Title
- Sailors and sexual identity : crossing the line between "straight" and "gay" in the U.S. Navy / Steven Zeeland.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Haworth Press, c1995.
- Description
- xxi, 296 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0810/94028996-d.html
- Uniform series
- Haworth gay & lesbian studies.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-296). Copy 2 is paperbound.
- Contents
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- Prologue : "are you in the Navy?"
- Introduction : the myth of homosexual purity
- Anthony : the boot camp dream
- Eddy : the sea bitch
- Lieutenant Tim : the uniform
- Trent : the boatswain's locker
- David : "hard", not "tough"
- Ray : the Navy corpsman nipple piercing ritual
- Gregg : the unmaking of an activist
- Russell : strong friendship
- Sonny : Navy tradition
- Kevin : the network
- Jack : "don't kiss me, I'm straight"
- Chaplain Phil : gay, straight, whatever
- Joey : I'll always be a sailor
- Anthony (coda).
- Subject headings
- United States. Navy--Gays.
- Kinsey subjects
- Military--United States. Sex behavior in the military. Homosexuals in the military.
- ISBN
- 1560248505 (alk. paper) 9781560248507 (alk. paper) 156023850X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781560238508 (pbk. : alk. paper)