Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (953 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814798861 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 299 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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We learn about the richness and variety of their culture in documents from Plato, Seneca and Suetonius. This anthology will forever change the way we think about "gays in the military.". In Ancient Greece and Rome, in Crusader campaigns and pirate adventures, same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. military as well as sailors and pirates. From the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War, from Achelleus to Lawrence of Arabia gays and lesbians have played a crucial but often hidden role in military campaigns. Richard Burg has recovered important documents and assembled an anthology on these often invisible gay and lesbian warriors.Burg shows us that the s of legend weren't just fictional. But recent debates over the legality of gay service in the military and the "don't ask, don't tell" policy have obscured this rich aspect of military history. From courts-martial proceedings we discover women warriors in seventeenth century England who passed as men in order to serve, and army officers whose underground
Fewer may be aware of its prevalence among soldiers in those societies, and even fewer will know of such relationships in modern-day militaries. Burg (Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition), Professor of History at Arizona State University, presents records of gays and lesbians on the battlefield from the s through U.S. John Boswell discusses "the association of homosexuals with democracy and the military" circa 300 B.C.; Anne Gilmour-Bryson explores "Sodomy and the Knights Templar," a medieval religious and military order; and in 1952 the U.S. Army delivered a "L
"Summary" according to A Customer. It wasn't "Don't ask, don't tell" in ancient Greece. Same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture.Learn about Samarai sex, American Civil War, WW I and II, the contemporary U.S. military as well as sailors and pirates.