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The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II

The media started promoting that homosexuals were a minority that was being persecuted and there was anticipation of a civil rights movement for homosexuals. .
             Allan Bérubé argues that even though homosexuals were willing to lie about their sexuality to proudly serve their country, they were fighting several wars, World War II, the fight against the military persecuting them and being able to be themselves in society without being seen as "sexual psychopaths" (14). "Do you like girls?" is an example of questions the gay men would lie to in order to serve in the armed forces. Lesbians were asked if they wanted to join the service in order to be near women during their screening with strict "antilesbian instructions" (32). Service members were being persecuted because the Army and the Navy said that homosexuality was "a constitutional psychopathic state" (14). They had to fight against the notion that they made "poor combat soldiers" and "their presence in units would threaten morale and discipline" (2). Some psychiatrists would not want to ruin the life of homosexual's and would still let them join the military. If they would dismiss the homosexuals that were honest from serving, their draft paperwork would say "homosexualism-overt" (26). Military members also had to deal with the disagreement between psychiatrists and military leaders in Washington. Psychiatrists advised military officials how to "manage the homosexual dynamics of military life without eliminating homosexuals" (66) but military officials were still set on homosexuals not being mentally or physically able to serve in the armed forces. As Bérubé argues, it is ironic that gay men and women had to "kill, risk their lives and see their buddies die in order to gain some respect" and feel like "men among men" (200).


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