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Hello Sailor! The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea
Hello Sailor The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea
Author: Paul Baker, Jo Stanley
  • 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...  more »
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 gay 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 gay at sea at a time when land meant straightness.  
ISBN-13: 9780582772144
ISBN-10: 0582772141
Publication Date: 6/11/2003
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Longman
Book Type: Hardcover
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