A same-sex attraction for soldiers and sailors spans the globe and predates the term "homosexual" by several thousand years. But these days "military chasers" are likely to be seen as doubly incorrect. Most are gay men who pursue straight men. And, many of them do it in public. What continues to motivate so many men to brave arrest, violence, and the scorn of gay leaders who condemn any non-gay homosexual desire as "internalized homophobia"?

In Military Trade (now updated to include an expanded photo insert ), Steven Zeeland, author of Sailors and Sexual Identity, The Masculine...

Gay servicemen are obliged by bitter necessity to keep their sexual orientations a closely guarded secret. But now, 16 soldiers and airmen, all in their 20s, reveal stories of their sex lives in the armed forces. Barrack Buddies and Soldier Lovers is a voyeuristic glimpse into the secret lives of gay GIs, touching on many of their concerns.

Includes the conversations that reveal how known gay and straight men can and do get along in the sexually tense confines of barracks and shipboard life once they discover that the imagined boundary between them is not, in fact, a hard line.

This exciting book was listed as #1 on The Advocate s (ital) bestseller list for December 1996 In The Masculine Marine, author Steven Zeeland records, for the first time ever, what active-duty Marines have to say about what it means to be a man, to be a Marine, and to desire other men.

As the foremost surviving icon of traditional masculinity, Marines are often considered the opposite of "gay." Yet in contemporary gay culture, Marines are stereotyped as likely to play the passive role in sexual encounters with other men. By vividly illustrating some of the startling ways in which...

A same-sex attraction for soldiers and sailors spans the globe and predates the term "homosexual" by several thousand years. But these days "military chasers" are likely to be seen as doubly incorrect. Most are gay men who pursue straight men. And, many of them do it in public. What continues to motivate so many men to brave arrest, violence, and the scorn of gay leaders who condemn any non-gay homosexual desire as "internalized homophobia"?

In Military Trade (now updated to include an expanded photo insert ), Steven Zeeland, author of Sailors and Sexual Identity, The Masculine...

Among all the literature published on gays in the military, Steven Zeeland s first book remains one of a kind. Barrack Buddies and Soldier Lovers is a raw, unsanitized personal record of conversations the author had with young soldiers and airmen stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. Zeeland s intimate involvement with these men enabled him to document in honest, visceral terms the day-to-day reality of gay military men s lives and how they work, play, and, in many instances, how the military actually helped them come out.

Ironically, despite the military s antigay policies, these men...

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. This title features conversations that reveal how known gay and straight men can and do get along in the sexually tense confines of barracks and shipboard life.

A tantalizing yet scholarly look at homoeroticism and the performance of hypergender in Marine Corps life.