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Sailors and Sexual Identity Crossing the Line Between "Straight" and "Gay" in the U.S. Navy
By Steven Zeeland
Copyright 1995
320 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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In Sailors and Sexual Identity, author Steven Zeeland talks with young male sailors--both gay- and straight-identified--about ways in which their social and sexual lives have been shaped by their Navy careers. Despite massive media attention to the issue, there remains a gross disparity between the public perception of “gays in the military” and the sexual realities of military life.... Read more
Contents
Foreword
- Prologue: “Are You in the Navy?”
- Introduction: The Myth of Heterosexual 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 Corpsmen 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)
- Reference Notes
Biography
Steven Zeeland
