...it may have been stencilled, come to think of it. Did the US Army issue undershirts with stencilled logos right across the chest during WWII? I admit I'm not an expert on uniforms of the era, but it struck me as odd, since everything I've seen implies that decorated t-shirts didn't really happen until after the war.
I have read as much of Gay New York as I can while broke and without access to a library copy (which is not as much as I'd like, alas, and part of the reason the story's going slow) and a lot of online stuff that cites it heavily, and there is totally going to be discussion of Steve and drag balls, and Steve having a lot of trouble with exactly what is involved in the modern idea of being "out" as opposed to what he knew it as.
I have noticed, though, that pretty much *everything* I've seen about homosexuality in that period cites basically just that book, and Coming Out Under Fire - the one about gays in the military in WWII - and while I'm quite sure they're both great books, I've spent long enough involved in forteana that I get kind of squiffy about any topic where only one source, and a secondary one at that, ever gets cited or recommended. Is there any *other* source you know of that's reasonably accessible and covers homosexuality in the period that doesn't trace back to that book? Because I'd really like to be able to cross-correlate...
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Date: 2012-06-14 02:21 am (UTC)I have read as much of Gay New York as I can while broke and without access to a library copy (which is not as much as I'd like, alas, and part of the reason the story's going slow) and a lot of online stuff that cites it heavily, and there is totally going to be discussion of Steve and drag balls, and Steve having a lot of trouble with exactly what is involved in the modern idea of being "out" as opposed to what he knew it as.
I have noticed, though, that pretty much *everything* I've seen about homosexuality in that period cites basically just that book, and Coming Out Under Fire - the one about gays in the military in WWII - and while I'm quite sure they're both great books, I've spent long enough involved in forteana that I get kind of squiffy about any topic where only one source, and a secondary one at that, ever gets cited or recommended. Is there any *other* source you know of that's reasonably accessible and covers homosexuality in the period that doesn't trace back to that book? Because I'd really like to be able to cross-correlate...