Steel Closets
Author: Anne Balay
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1469614006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSteel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers
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Author: Anne Balay
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1469614006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSteel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers
Author: Anne Balay
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-04-07
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1469614014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven as substantial legal and social victories are being celebrated within the gay rights movement, much of working-class America still exists outside the current narratives of gay liberation. In Steel Closets, Anne Balay draws on oral history interviews with forty gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers, mostly living in northwestern Indiana, to give voice to this previously silent and invisible population. She presents powerful stories of the intersections of work, class, gender, and sexual identity in the dangerous industrial setting of the steel mill. The voices and stories captured by Balay--by turns alarming, heroic, funny, and devastating--challenge contemporary understandings of what it means to be queer and shed light on the incredible homophobia and violence faced by many: nearly all of Balay's narrators remain closeted at work, and many have experienced harassment, violence, or rape. Through the powerful voices of queer steelworkers themselves, Steel Closets provides rich insight into an understudied part of the LGBT population, contributing to a growing body of scholarship that aims to reveal and analyze a broader range of gay life in America.
Author: Bettina Aptheker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-09-09
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1000650685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as "degenerates." It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism, anti-racist organizing, especially in the south, and its widely read cultural magazine, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research, correspondence, and interviews, Bettina Aptheker explores this history, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically, and in spite of this homophobia, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women’s liberation, and contributed significantly to peace, social justice, civil rights, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers in political history, gender studies, and the history of sexuality.
Author: Peter Jones
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780943822969
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