Awards & Winners

Allan Bérubé

Date of Birth 03-December-1946
Place of Birth Springfield
(Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States of America, Area code 413)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Allan Berube
Profession Writer, Historian
Allan Ronald Bérubé was an American historian, activist, independent scholar, self-described "community-based" researcher and college drop-out, and award-winning author, best known for his research and writing about homosexual members of the American Armed Forces during World War II. He also wrote essays about the intersection of class and race in gay culture, and about growing up in a poor, working-class family, his French-Canadian roots, and about his experience of anti-AIDS activism. Among Bérubé's published works was the 1990 book Coming Out Under Fire, which examined the stories of gay men and women in the U.S. military between 1941 and 1945. The book used interviews with gay veterans, government documents, and other sources to discuss the social and political issues that faced over 9,000 servicemen and women during World War II. The book earned Bérubé the Lambda Literary Award for outstanding Gay Men's Nonfiction book of 1990 and was later adapted as a film in 1994, narrated by Salome Jens and Max Cole, with a screenplay by Bérubé and the film's director, Arthur Dong. The film received a Peabody Award for excellence in documentary media in 1995. Bérubé received a MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1996. He received a Rockefeller grant from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in 1994 to research a book on the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union, and he was working on this book at the time of his death.

Awards by Allan Bérubé

Check all the awards nominated and won by Allan Bérubé.

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two

1990


Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Nonfiction
Honored for : Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Nonfiction Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two