BÉRUBÉ, Allan

PERSONAL:

Male; companion of Brian Keith (deceased). Education: Attended the University of Chicago and City College of San Francisco.

ADDRESSES:

Office—360 Guerrero St., Ste. 301, San Francisco, CA 94103.

CAREER:

Writer, gay rights advocate. University of California, Santa Cruz, lecturer; Stanford University, lecturer.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Lamda Literary Award for best nonfiction, for Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II, 1991; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1992; MacArthur Fellowship, 1996.

WRITINGS:

Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II, Free Press (New York, NY), 1990.

Contributor of articles to numerous journals and periodicals, including Out/Look, Advocate, Mother Jones, Gay Community News, Washington Blade, and Body Politic. Contributor to Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, edited by Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr., New American Library (New York, NY), 1989. Editor of Out/Look.

ADAPTATIONS:

Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II was adapted as a television documentary directed by Arthur Dong in 1994.

SIDELIGHTS:

Allan Bérubé is an accomplished historian who focuses on gay history. He has taught history at both the University of California at Santa Cruz and Stanford. Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II was called the "definitive account of gays in World War II," by Randy Shilts, who went on to acknowledge his indebtedness to Bérubé in his book Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military Vietnam to the Persian Gulf. In an interview for The Living Room, Bérubé said, "Twenty years ago, the assumption was that … you couldn't write gay American history, because there were no sources. Everything was covered up or censored or burned or never existed. Invisible, hidden."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Shilts, Randy, Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1993.

PERIODICALS

Detroit Free Press, February 17, 1993, Lynn Elber, review of television documentary, Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II, p. 5C.

ONLINE

Matt & Andrej Koymasky, The Living Room, http://www.andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biob2/beru1.html/ (September 21, 2003), an interview with Allan Bérubé.

QueerTheory.com,http://www.queertheory.com/ (September 21, 2003).

University of Chicago Magazine, http://www.magazine.uchicago.edu/ (September 21, 2003), an interview with Allan Bérubé.*