Uniform Fantasies : : Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany / / Jeffrey Schneider.
Starting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a political project to exploit the army's prestige for queer emancipation. In the first decade of t...
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