Allan Bérubé

• Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two, a social history based on oral history interviews, declassified government documents, letters and diaries. NY: Free Press, April 1990; paperback reprint: Plume/New American Library, April 1991.
• My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History, Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2011.

• "Behind the Spectre of San Francisco," The Body Politic, April 1981.
• "Caught in the Storm: AIDS and the Meaning of Natural Disaster." Outlook, 1, no. 3 (Fall 1988), pp. 8–19.
• "Coming Out Under Fire," Mother Jones, February/March 1983.
• "Don't Save Us From Our Sexuality." Coming Up!. April 1984.
• "The First Stonewall," San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Freedom Day Program, June 1983.
• "The History of Gay Bathhouses." First published in Coming Up! (San Francisco). Revised and reprinted in Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics And the Future of AIDS Activism. Edited by Dangerous Bedfellows (Ephen Glenn Colter, Wayne Hoffman, Eva Pendleton, Allison Redick, David Serlin). Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1996. Revised and reprinted based on first version in: Gay Bathhouses and Public Health Policy, ed. by William J. Woods and Diane Binson. NY: Harrington Park Press, An Imprint of The Haworth Press, 2003. Co-published as the Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 44 No. 3/4, 2003.
• "How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays."In The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, ed. by Birgit Rasmussen, Eric Klineberg, Irene Nexica, and Matt Wray. Duke University Press, 2001. Reprinted in Privilege: A Reader, ed. by Michael S. Kimmel and Abby L. Ferber. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Book group,2003.
• "Intellectual Desire," GLQ 3, no. 1 (1996): 139-157. [Includes a revised version of the autobiographical keynote address on his Franco-American, working-class origins that Bérubé presented at the First Quebec Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, Montreal, November, 1992.] Reprinted in: Susan Raffo, ed., Queerly Classed: Gay Men and Lesbians Write About Class, Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1997.
• Introduction to German silent film, "Anders Als Die Anderen," premier San Francisco showing, Seventh San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, June 20, 1983.
• "Lesbian Masquerade," Gay Community News, November 17, 1979.
• "Lesbians at War with the Military: Tragedies, facts, and secret documents." Edited by Berube and Rebecca Isaacs. Out/Look (San Francisco), Issue 13, Summer 1991, pp. 14–27.
• "Marching to a Different Drummer," The Advocate, Issue 320, October 1981.
• "Marching to a Different Drummer: Lesbian and Gay GIs in World War II," in Duberman, and others, eds. Hidden from History, 383-394.
• "Medical Scapegoating: An Historical Perspective." Gay Community News, April 21, 1984.
• "Murder in the Women's Army Corps: An Interview with Actress Pat Bond." Out/Look (San Francisco), Issue 13, Summer 1991. p. 17-20.
• "Rediscovering Our Forgotten Past" [interview with Woodie Wilson and Norman Sansom about the publication "Myrtle Beach Bitch"]. The Front Page, Vol. V, No. 11, June 26, 1984.
• "Sunset Trailer Park" (with Florence Bérubé; dated November 1995) In: White Trash: Race and Class in America edited by Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz. NY<?>: Routledge, 1997, pp. 15–39.
• "The War Years Were Critical," Washington Blade Pride Guide, June 1983.
• "To Acknowledge Every Person As A Person." One-page anti-war essay in: Living at War: A Collection of Contemporary Responses to the Draft. Edited by Berube and David Worstell. Chicago: no publisher, no date (before November 1968).

• Consultant. "The Times of Harvey Milk"; documentary film directed by Robert Epstein, 1984; photography by Frances Reid; edited by Deborah Hoffman and Epstein; music by Mark Isham; produced by Richard Schmiechen; released by Teleculture Films Inc. Running time: 87 minutes. Not rated.
• Interviewee. "Over Our Dead Bodies," documentary film directed by Stuart Marshall, with Bérubé, Gregg Bordowitz, Michael Callen, Douglas Crimp.
• Screenplay, with Arthur Dong, for documentary film "Coming Out Under Fire," made for television, produced and directed by Arthur Dong, and funded with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1994), based on the book by Bérubé. Director of photography, Stephen Lighthill; edited by Veronica Selver; music by Mark Adler; released by Zeitgeist Films. Running time: 71 minutes. Not rated. Broadcast nationally, PBS, June 1995; released on home video, 1996; released on DVD. 2003.
• Story consultant. "The Castro"; documentary film produced by KQED TV, San Francisco, 1997.
• Story consultant. "Licensed to Kill"; documentary film by Arthur Dong, 1996.
• Story consultant and advisor. "Out At Work"; documentary film by Tami Gold, 1996.
• Story consultant and historical consultant. "The Question of Equality"; documentary television series funded by Independent Television Service, 1994.

• Creator of "No Red-Baiting! No Race-Baiting! No Queen-Baiting!," a 90-minute illustrated talk on the left-wing, multi-racial, and gay-friendly Marine Cooks and Stewards Union, posthumously digitized and shared on OutHistory.org.
• Co-curator, with Jonathan Ned Katz, of the U.S. section of "Goodbye to Berlin? Hundert Jahre Schwulenbewegung," an exhibition on the international history of the gay rights movement held at the Berlin Academy of the Arts, produced by the Schwules Museum of Berlin and the Academy, May 14-August 3, 1997.

• First Canadian Lesbian and Gay Trade Union Conference, Ottawa,1997
• The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, Berkeley, 1997
• Southwest Labor Studies Conference, San Francisco, 1996
• The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union, CIO (1930s, 1940s), slide show and presentation, Pride at Work, 2nd Biennial National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Labor Conference, Oakland, CA, June, 1996; also co-led workshop on recording union history.
• American Historical Association, Annual Meetings, Atlanta, 1996; San Francisco, 1994
• First Leadership Conference of the Lavender Caucus of the Service Employees International Union Western Conference, Oakland, California, 1993
• Reworking American Labor History: Race, Gender and Class, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, 1992
• American Psychological Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1991
• Society of American Archivists, Annual Meeting, Seattle, 1990
• "The Politics of Grief." (24 double-spaced pages; handwritten at top: "3-5-89," "(c) 1989 Allan Berube" and "For Michael [Lynch] with love, from Allan." Copy in the collection of Bert Handsen.)
• "Pioneers of the Lesbian and Gay Press in America," keynote speech, Gay Press Association, West Coast Regional Conference, San Francisco, June 20, 1983.
• Second National Conference on Lesbian and Gay Aging, San Francisco, 1983
• American Sociologist Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1982
• American Library Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1981
• American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 1981
• First White House National Conference on Lesbian and Gay Aging, Los Angeles, 1981

• "Allan Berube Day," proclaimed by San Francisco Board of Supervisors, June 17, 1996.
• Certificate of Appreciation, National Park Service, Western Region, 1992.
• Certificate of Honor, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, "in appreciative public recognition of distinction and merit," 1984.
  • Certificate reads: "We congratulate you for your extensive historical research and study of the gay community, held in high esteem and greatly valued throughout the country. This outstanding contribution to our society, focusing attention on the gay community during and after World War II, is a significant piece of history and we are grateful for your dedication to this effort."
• Community Service Award, Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, 1990.
• Distinguished Achievement Award, Monette-Horwitz Trust Award, 2001.
• Lambda Book Award for Best Gay Male Nonfiction Book of 1990, 1991.
• Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States: for the best scholarship on the subject of intolerance in the United States, 1991.
• MacArthur Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, "in recognition of your accomplishments in history which demonstrate your originality, creativity, capacity for self-direction, and ability to make a contribution to our lives," 1996-2001.
• Rockefeller Residency Fellowship in the Humanities, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), Graduate Center, City University of New York, for research on "The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union 1930s to 1950s," 1994-1995.

(Berube was co-screenwriter of documentary based on his book of the same title)

• Berlin International Film Festival, Best Gay Documentary, 1994.
• George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Television Broadcasting, 1995.
• GLAAD Media Award Best Documentary.
• Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award for Excellence, 1994.

• Beautification Award, Greater Liberty Chamber of Commerce, 2004.
• Pride of Sullivan Award, Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce and Industry, for Carrier House Bed & Breakfast, May 1, 2005.

• Created, designed, and maintained website: LibertyPride.org, "A Community Website to Promote Clean-Up & Beautification Projects."
• Created, designed, and maintained website: VillageOfLiberty.org.
• Helped to save the Town and Country Building, Liberty, NY; prepared sales booklet for building; initiated facade restoration by volunteers from Cornell University's Historic Preservation Planning Program, April 15–18, 2004.
• Initiated the listing of 127 buildings located in the Downtown Civic and Commercial Historic District of Liberty, NY, on both the New York State Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places, 2006.
• Initiated the saving, redevelopment, and moving of the Munson Diner from New York City to Liberty, NY.
• Member, ALIVE (Assembly for Liberty's Investment in Visual Enhancement).
• Member, Cornell-Liberty Economic Action Project Steering Committee.
• Member, Habitat for Humanity Advisory Board.
• Member, J.C. Young Hose Company No. 1, Liberty Volunteer Fire Department; served as Fire Police Officer.
• Member, Revitalization Committee.
• Member, Sullivan County United Against Prejudice.
• Member (with Dara Smith), Sign Review Committee.
• Represented the Village of Liberty at meetings of the Community Development Corporation.
• Researched and produced an illustrated history: "A Century of Theaters on Liberty's Main Street," and other local history research.
• Rewrote and reorganized "A User's Guide To Recycling & Trash Removal in the Village of Liberty."

• Appointed by the Chair of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission to the Lesbian and Gay Advisory Committee (now the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Advisory Committee), serving three years, 1983-1986.
• Founding Member, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBT Historical Society), San Francisco, 1985.
• Founding Member, San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project, 1978.

• Member, National Writers Union.
• Wrote detailed history of the U.S. ban on homosexuals in the military for Senator Edward Kennedy, who included it in the record of the 1993 hearings on homosexuals in the military. "Additional Views of Mr. Kennedy. Excerpted from the Senate Debate regarding the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994. 139 Congressional Record, S11194; daily ed. September 9, 1993." available online

• Oral History: Conducted 70 oral history interviews since 1980 with lesbians and gay men about their experiences in the military and on the home front during World War II and about their experiences as members of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union.
• Government Documents: Through the use of the Freedom of Information Act and the National Archives, uncovered thousands of pages of Army, Navy and FBI documents relating to the management of homosexual military personnel during World War II.

• New School for Social Research, Fall 1996
• Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, Summer Session 1994
• University of California at Santa Cruz, Winter 1991 and Spring 1992
• Stanford University, Fall 1991

• Consultant on many museum exhibits, radio and television shows, books, magazine and newspaper articles and plays.
• Conducted many workshops at universities and community groups on conducting community-based historical research, including oral history interviews and archival research.
• Freelance historical consultant (1985–2007).
• Freelance developmental editor (1991–2007).
• Community-based gay history researcher and writer: Full-time (1982–2001); Part-time (1978–1982).
• Free-lance direct mail copywriter for nonprofit organizations.

• World War II Project Papers, 1892-1996 (36 boxes) are housed at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. Project was run by Allan Berubé and contains correspondence to and from Berubé
• Jonathan Katz papers, ca. 1947-1995 (59.3 linear feet) are housed at the New York Public Library. Collection contains correspondence with Allan Berubé.