Queer tourist venues as sites of clandestine operational cover in World War II Paris
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The interconnections between queerness, espionage, and space expose the problematic nature of homosexual covert agents in international relations. This article considers the intersection of sexuality, queerness, war, and tourist space as a means to understand the complex interactions between same-sex desire and the operational objectives of an undercover agent of the United Kingdom’s Special Operations Executive, Major Denis Rake, on mission to France as a radio operator between 14 May 1942 and late April 1943. In the mid-1940s, a queer geography was already established in Paris by the time of the German occupation. During this same period, however, the Vichy government made efforts to constrain and limit queer culture in Paris. Rake’s employment at le Boeuf sur le Toit as a drag performer for German tourists enhanced his operational cover, obscuring him from German surveillance.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it