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The last deployment : how a gay, hammer-swinging twentysomething survived a year in Iraq / Bronson Lemer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lemer, Bronson.
- Series:
- Living out.
- Living out : gay and lesbian autobiographies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lemer, Bronson.
- Gay men--United States--Biography.
- Gay men.
- Gay military personnel--United States--Biography.
- Gay military personnel.
- Soldiers--United States--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 223 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- CC BY-NC
- ISBN:
- 0-299-28219-8
- 1-283-13442-X
- 9786613134424
- 0-299-28213-9
- OCLC:
- 798318109
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