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Bond explained that many “butch” lesbians she knew applied for the WAC “wearing men’s clothes—wearing argyle socks and pinstriped suits and the hair cut just like a man’s with sideburns shaved over the ears—the whole bit.” Despite these women’s masculine appearance, the examiners “let them in like that—much to the credit of the army paychiatrists. They would say, ‘Have you ever been in love with a woman?’ You would say, ‘Of course not!’ sitting there in your pinstriped suit.”
Women’s Army Corps volunteer Pat Bond, quoted in Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two by Allan Bérubé.
