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Allan
Bérubé (December 3, 1946 – December 11, 2007) was an
American historian, activist,
independent scholar, self-described "community-based" researcher and
college drop-out, and award-winning
author, best
known for his research and writing about
homosexual members of the
American Armed Forces during
World War II.[1]
He also wrote essays about the intersection of class and race in gay culture,
and about growing up in a poor, working-class family, his French-Canadian
roots, and about his experience of anti-AIDS
activism.
Among Bérubé's published works was the 1990 book
Coming Out Under Fire, which examined the stories of
gay men and women
in the U.S. military between 1941 and 1945. The book used interviews with gay
veterans, government documents, and other sources to discuss the social and
political issues that faced over 9,000 servicemen and women during World War
II. The book earned Bérubé the
Lambda Literary Award for outstanding Gay Men's Nonfiction book of 1990[2]
and was later adapted as a film in 1994, narrated by
Salome
Jens and Max Cole, with a screenplay by Bérubé and the film's director,
Arthur
Dong. The film received a
Peabody Award for excellence in documentary media in 1995. Bérubé received
a
MacArthur Fellowship (often called the "genius grant") from the
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1996. He received a
Rockefeller grant from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in 1994 to
research a book on the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union, and he was working on
this book at the time of his death.
Bérubé was born in
Springfield, Massachusetts, and lived with his family in
Monson, Massachusetts, and later in a trailer park near the waterfront in
Bayonne, New Jersey. He lived for a time in
Boston and
for many years in
San Francisco. He moved to
New York City, and finally settled in
Liberty, New York, with his partner John Nelson.
He died in 2007.
Featured in
Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay
and Lesbian Writers by Robert Giard [Rights Notice: Copyright Jonathan G. Silin (jsilin@optonline.net)]
Starting in 1979, Bérubé was interviewed about his work in publications
including
Time (magazine),
The New York Times, the
Washington Post,
The Advocate,
Christopher Street (magazine),
Gay Community News (Boston), and the
San Francisco Examiner. His many radio and television appearances
included interviews by
Studs Terkel, Sonia Freedman on
CNN, and two by
Terry
Gross on
National Public Radio's Fresh Air.
Bérubé was twice elected Trustee, Village of Liberty, Liberty, NY, 2003 and
2005. He also played a major role in saving the historic Munson Diner, which
was moved to Liberty from Manhattan in 2005.
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