Allan Berube, a MacArthur Award-winning independent scholar whose history of gay men and lesbians in the military in World War II is widely considered the definitive book on the subject, died Tuesday in Liberty, N.Y. He was 61. A former resident of San Francisco and Manhattan, Mr. Berube had lived in Liberty in recent years.
The cause was complications of stomach ulcers, said a friend, Wayne Hoffman.
“Coming Out Under Fire” (Free Press), published in 1990, explores the uneasy but at times surprisingly benign relationship between the U.S. military and its gay members.
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