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Hello Sailor!
The hidden history of gay life at sea
Authors: Stanley Jo, Baker Paul
Language: English
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Keywords
picture; courtesy; merchant; navy; sea; queens; passenger; ships; gay; men; Young Man; Athletic Model Guild; Vice Versa; Gay Men; Picture Courtesy; Firemen; Camp Gay Men; Carol Baker; Cocktail Dress; Sea Queens; UK Staff; Ship’s Bar; Gay Pornography; Gay Service Personnel; Common Language; Gay Liberationists; Straight Colleagues; Gay Liberation Front Manifesto; Naval Investigative Service; Home Towns; Southampton City Council; British Gay Men; Married Men; Gay Cruise; Andy Medhurst
Publication date: 09-2016
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
Approximative price 33.85 €
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the book of Stanley Jo, Baker Paul
Publication date: 01-2003
272 p. · Hardback
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When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans.
Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered the straight men in the catering departments of ships that were household names and the pride of the British fleet. Hello Sailor! uniquely shows what it was like to be queer at sea at a time when land meant straightness.
An extraordinary, piquant and fun story until now a lost moment in history
Amazing original photographs of the `queens and butches of the sea
A vital addition to the understanding of gay and sea history
For anyone interested in the secret and hidden groups of the past
Full of new material from interviews to anecdotes which opens up a new and rich world of tolerance
