Allan Bérubé
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Who is Allan Bérubé?
Allan Bérubé: Allan Ronald Bérubé was an American historian, activist, independent scholar, self-described "community-based" researcher and college drop-out, and award-winning author, best known for his research and writing about homosexual members of the American Armed Forces during World War II. He also wrote essays about the intersection of class and race in gay culture, and about growing up in a poor, working-class family, his French-Canadian roots, and about his experience of anti-AIDS activism.
- also known as Allan Berube
- born on (69 years ago) in Springfield
- nationality: United States of America
- education: University of Chicago
- profession: Writer, historian
- died on (8 years ago) in Liberty
- written work: "Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two"
- film written: Coming Out Under Fire
- some of the nominations and awards:
- nominated to Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Nonfiction - "Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two"
- Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Nonfiction - "Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two"
- nominated to Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award - "Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two"
- MacArthur Fellowship - "American History"
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Powers of Desire (1983)
Powers of Desireby Christine Stansell
Allan Bérubé is a founding member of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project, and is currently writing a detailed social history of lesbian and gay Americans during World War II and the postwar years. A 1960s dropout from the ...
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