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. The conversations in this book 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 is not to be taken as an endorsement of the institution of the military or of the actions carried out by soldiers and enlisted seamen. I just find this all pretty interesting historically though. And better them out of uniform then in, yeah?
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