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The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq de Bronson Lemer

The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog

Autor Bronson Lemer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iun 2011

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Minnesota Book Award (2012)
In 2003, after serving five and a half years as a carpenter in a North Dakota National Guard engineer unit, Bronson Lemer was ready to leave the military behind. But six months short of completing his commitment to the army, Lemer was deployed on a yearlong tour of duty to Iraq. Leaving college life behind in the Midwest, he yearns for a lost love and quietly dreams of a future as an openly gay man outside the military. He discovers that his father’s lifelong example of silent strength has taught him much about being a man, and these lessons help him survive in a war zone and to conceal his sexuality, as he is required to do by the U.S. military.
            The Last Deployment is a moving, provocative chronicle of one soldier’s struggle to reconcile military brotherhood with self-acceptance. Lemer captures the absurd nuances of a soldier’s daily life: growing a mustache to disguise his fear, wearing pantyhose to battle sand fleas, and exchanging barbs with Iraqis while driving through Baghdad. But most strikingly, he describes the poignant reality faced by gay servicemen and servicewomen, who must mask their identities while serving a country that disowns them. Often funny, sometimes anguished, The Last Deployment paints a deeply personal portrait of war in the twenty-first century.

 
InSight Out Book Club selection
 
Bronson Lemer named one of Instinct magazine’s Leading Men 2011
 
QPB Book Club selection

Finalist, Minnesota Book Awards

Finalist, Over the Rainbow Selection, American Library Association

Amazon Top Ten 10 Gay & Lesbian Books of 2011
 
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299282141
ISBN-10: 0299282147
Pagini: 236
Ilustrații: 1 b-w drawing
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog

Recenzii

“Lemer writes with clarity, temperance, and an eye for detail. . . . Without ever becoming polemical, the book shows graphically how ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ cruelly affects gay soldiers who play by the rules.”—David Bergman, editor of Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris

“An important contribution to this national debate. . . . A book we should have on the president’s desk as soon as possible.”—Tim Miller, author of Body Blows and 1001 Beds

“A well-written, often provocative memoir of the author’s struggle to reconcile military brotherhood with self-acceptance. . . . Regardless of how you feel about the war, this memoir is well worth reading.”—Lambda Literary

“This is extremely touching material. Lemer describes the emotional turbulence of being gay in the military, tortured with the strong natural desire to connect with his fellow soldiers yet unable to reveal himself because of his sexuality. There is real pain in that kind of personal concealment, and it permeates this moving, substantive account.”—Bay Area Reporter

“This book provides a poignant example of a gay man learning more about his place in the world. Lemer’s fears and joys highlight the humanity associated with being gay in the military, along with complexities of the discriminatory and soon to be ended policy of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’”—High Plains Reader

“Lemer’s is a wonderfully descriptive, wryly humorous, heart-crushing story, and I couldn’t put it down. . . . If you love a soldier, your country, or both, The Last Deployment is a book you’ll want to tell everybody about.”—The Dallas Voice

“A masterful balance of straightforward wartime reporting, anguished self-reflection and a wealth of absurd asides.”—Pittsburgh’s Out

Notă biografică

Bronson Lemer served in the North Dakota Army National Guard for six years, including deployments to Kosovo and Iraq. His writing has appeared in Blue Earth Review, The Rekjavik Grapevine, and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers. He teaches English and humanities courses at Turtle Mountain Community College near Belcourt, North Dakota.

Cuprins

Prologue        



1. Olympic Hopefuls        

2. Last Supper        

3. Snowbullets        

4. Even Pawns Have Great 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: The Lost Year        



Acknowledgments

Descriere

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.

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