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Hello Sailor!: The hidden history of gay life at sea
Jo Stanley
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Description for Hello Sailor!: The hidden history of gay life at sea
Paperback. Explores the meaning of gay life for sea-faring men. This book presents a strand of British history, and tells stories of lives lived against the odds. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBTM; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 763.
When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans. Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered the straight men in the catering departments of ships that were household names and the pride of the British fleet. Hello Sailor! uniquely shows ... Read more
When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans. Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered the straight men in the catering departments of ships that were household names and the pride of the British fleet. Hello Sailor! uniquely shows ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Longman
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
762g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780582772144
SKU
V9780582772144
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Jo Stanley
Felicia Gordon is at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and technology. Paul Baker is at Lancaster Univeristy. He is the world's leading writer on Polari, a secret form of language used by gay men, particularly gay sea-farers, in the 1950s and a 1960s. Jo Stanley is known world wide as one of the leading writers on women/gender and the sea, ... Read more
Reviews for Hello Sailor!: The hidden history of gay life at sea
What this fascinating book is really about is not 'gay life at sea' in general, but the gay ghettos on many liners and cruiseships during the fifties and sixties. George Melly, The Mail on Sunday ...this path breaking book tells the hidden story of passion and liberation ... Read more