Crossing the lines: the story of three homosexual New Zealand soldiers in WW2
New Zealand History
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Court Martial Files - Is There a Homophobia?
Brent looked at the court martial files. He found ten men who were charged with am a, for homosexuality. The records are quite fragmentary and tend to be men who wel they just chose the wrong person to asexual advance to. They meant many times their behaviour was tolerated by the battalion. And then finally they got sick of it, and they just dobbed em in. I think the nature of a citizen's army is that it had to be inclusive. As harold said, one of his sergeants was as butcher in south deneden. He said he proudly never once saluted him, because he said, i'm not going to salute my butcher,. ecause
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