Crossing the lines: the story of three homosexual New Zealand soldiers in WW2
New Zealand History
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How Oral History Helped to Reclaim the History of the Gay Community
Oral history played a really ke part in the research of the book, and i think it's an important means of reclaiming the history for the homosexual, gay or queer community. And are not really hung up personally, on the terms that are being used. There a many homosexual men refrained from keeping diaries in letters. I think writing down a information that disgust and individual sexuality was, in the past, often seen by homosexual men as very wise. Its discovery might lead to arrest. At the worst, i guess it might lead to discrimination. Ah, so this has meant that that particular, this particular community's history has often been lost. It's a hidden history. It
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