Steel closets
Subtitle: voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers
By: Anne Balay
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781469614007
Subjects: Iron and steel industry; Gay men; Iron and steel workers; Homosexuality in the workplace; Homophobia in the workplace; Homosexuality; Transgender people; Lesbians; Gays; Employment; Biography; Blue collar workers
Description: Even 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. Balay draws on oral history interviews with forty gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers, mostly living in northwest Indiana. They discuss what it means to be queer and shed light on the incredible homophobia and violence faced; most remain closeted at work, and many have experienced harassment, violence, or rape.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene; title: Bridging the divide between work and home; title: Secrecy : its logic and consequences; title: Female masculinity in the steel mill; title: Male masculinity in the steel mill; title: Danger and death in and out of the mills; title: Unions in twenty-first-century America.