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Record Nr.

UNINA9910668196403321

Autore

Lemer Bronson

Titolo

The last deployment [[electronic resource] ] : how a gay, hammer-swinging twentysomething survived a year in Iraq / / Bronson Lemer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011

ISBN

0-299-28219-8

1-283-13442-X

9786613134424

0-299-28213-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 223 p

Collana

Living out : gay and lesbian autobiographies

Disciplina

956.7044/342092

B

Soggetti

Gay men - United States

Gay military personnel - United States

Soldiers - United States

Iraq War, 2003-2011

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Olympic Hopefuls -- 2. Last Supper -- 3. Snow Bullets -- 4. Even Pawns Have Nice Legs -- 5. Click, Click, Click -- 6. The Mustache Race -- 7. All Sand and Stars -- 8. Wolves -- 9. This Is Our Comfortable Hell -- 10. Icarus in Iraq -- 11. Baghdad in My Boots -- 12. Don't Tell -- 13. If Charles Bronson Were Here -- 14. How to Build Your Own Coffin -- 15. Two Toonies and a Loonie -- 16. Vets -- 17. Out Came a Spider -- 18. Dump Gulls -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.

Sommario/riassunto

In the midst of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy debate, a gay former soldier offers a firsthand account of his experiences in the Iraq war, capturing the real experience of gay servicemen and servicewomen.