Offers a look at homoeroticism and hypermasculinity in Marine Corps life. This book challenges the popular stereotype of the Marine as all-man and unquestionably heterosexual.
Includes the conversations that reveal how known gay and straight men can and do get along in the sexually tense confines of barracks and shipboard life once they discover that the imagined boundary between them is not, in fact, a hard line.
Challenges assumptions and stereotypes of gay men in the military from conversations with several very different men serving in the military.
In Military Trade, Steven Zeeland, author of Sailors and Sexual Identity, The Masculine Marine, and Barrack Buddies and Soldier Lovers, brings together an edgy, enlightening, and richly entertaining collection of voices with a passion for servicemen.