· At the very beginning of “My Queer War,” Lord sees himself as “unremarkable in that ragtag rabble of G.I.’s, all attired exactly alike.” He is a bundle of confusions, as most of us are. Buy a cheap copy of My Queer War book by James Lord. A POWERFUL STORY OF SEXUAL AWAKENING DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR FROM THE NOTED MEMORIST AND CRITIC In My Queer War, James Lord tells the story of a young man’s Free shipping over $ · A powerful story of sexual awakening during the Second World War from the noted memorist and critic. In My Queer War, James Lord tells the story of a young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict. In , a timid, inexperienced twenty-one-year-old Lord reports to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army.
James Lord (Novem - Aug) was an American writer. He was the author of several books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso. He appeared in the documentary films Balthus Through the Looking Glass () and Picasso: Magic, Sex, Death (). Capo 1 [Verse] E I ain't cutting my hair till the good lord comes. E I ain't cutting my hair till the good lord comes, A arrive upon the mountain just to see what we have done, E B7 E I ain't cutting my hair, cutting till the good lord comes. I ain't open my eyes till we all walk free. I ain't open my eyes till we all walk free, till the color of our skin it don't mean a damn thing. Late in "My Queer War,'' Gertrude Stein offers our memoirist hero James Lord a piece of advice about a play he had written and submitted for her approval. "A real writer must be very sure of his emotions before putting a pen to paper,'' she tells him in the entryway of her salon in liberated Paris, "so that is what.
My queer war. by. James Lord. Publication date. Topics. Gay military personnel, American Personal narratives, World War, , Gay men, Soldiers, Biography. Publisher. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In My Queer War, James Lord tells the story of a young man’s exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict. In , a timid, inexperienced twenty-one-year-old Lord reports to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army. His career in the armed forces takes him to Nevada and California, to Boston, to England, and eventually to France and Germany, where he witnesses firsthand the ravages of total war on Europe’s land and on its people. The war was in color. — Carbon Leaf: The War Was In Color. My Queer War is the WWII memoir of James Lord, who I knew nothing about prior to picking up this book. The title is an intentional double entendre–James Lord is gay and his war was weird. He never saw combat and the vast majority of his service involved copious amounts of free time.
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