Steel Closets

Author : Anne Balay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469614014
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steel Closets written by Anne Balay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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 : Anne Balay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469647109
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semi Queer written by Anne Balay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow award-winning author Anne Balay to shed new light on the harsh realities of truckers' lives behind the wheel. A licensed commercial truck driver herself, Balay discovers that, for people routinely subjected to prejudice, hatred, and violence in their hometowns and in the job market, trucking can provide an opportunity for safety, welcome isolation, and a chance to be themselves--even as the low-wage work is fraught with tightening regulations, constant surveillance, danger, and exploitation. The narratives of minority and queer truckers underscore the working-class struggle to earn a living while preserving one's safety, dignity, and selfhood. Through the voices of drivers from marginalized communities who spend eleven- to fourteen-hour days hauling America's commodities in treacherous weather and across mountain passes, Semi Queer reveals the stark differences between the trucking industry's crushing labor practices and the perseverance of its most at-risk workers.

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Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Age and Hardware, Iron and Industrial Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1850 pages
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Download or read book The Iron Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1204 pages
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Download or read book Hardware World written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julio Capó Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469635216
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Fairyland written by Julio Capó Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami's queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Capo shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capo unearths the forgotten history of "fairyland," a marketing term crafted by boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean--particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti--to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history. Recovering the world of Miami's old saloons, brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and cruising sites, Capo makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness.

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Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Steel News written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Patent Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1140 pages
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Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : USA Patent Office
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Total Pages : 992 pages
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Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by USA Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bettina Aptheker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000650685
Total Pages : 261 pages
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Download or read book Communists in Closets written by Bettina Aptheker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communists 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.