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This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. Best known for his Lambda Literary Award-winning book ""Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II"" (1990), Berube also wrote extensively on the history of sexual politics in San Francisco and on the relationship between sexuality, class, and race. John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, who were close colleagues and friends of Berube, have selected sixteen of his most important essays, including hard-to-access articles and unpublished writing. The book provides a retrospective on Berube's life and work while it documents the emergence of a grassroots lesbian and gay community history movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Taken together, the essays attest to the power of history to mobilize individuals and communities to create social change.

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This collection of Allan Berube's finest essays offers a history of gay and lesbian movements, the challenges, frustrations, triumphs, and despair that characterized these movements, and a remarkably honest and vitally important critical assessment of the varied approaches that constituted this activism. Thanks to the work of D'Emilio and Freedman, two preeminent scholars of sexuality, Berube's extraordinary words and life are now accessible to all. --Leisa D. Meyer, The College of William and Mary In his smart, heart-felt, and now classic essays on class, labor, race, gender, and sexuality in lesbian, gay, and transgender history, Allan Berube lives again. An excerpt from his unfinished book about the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union and his editors' moving overview of his life and work ensure that, though Berube has left us, his soul keeps marching on. --Jonathan Ned Katz, historian, co-director of OutHistory.org Allan Berube was a meticulous archival researcher, a gifted oral historian, and a concise and graceful writer. In addition, he thought creatively about the process by which scholarship can contribute to making a more just world. This collection beautifully demonstrates these strengths; in truth, I often couldn't put the essays down. --Elizabeth L. Kennedy, University of Arizona

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