Steel Closets Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers |
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Author:
| Balay, Anne |
ISBN: | 978-1-4696-1400-7 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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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,...
More DescriptionEven 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.