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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452224703321

Titolo

Out at work [[electronic resource] ] : building a gay-labor alliance / / Kitty Krupat, Patrick McCreery, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8166-9248-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

Cultural politics ; ; v. 17

Altri autori (Persone)

KrupatKitty

McCreeryPatrick

Disciplina

331.88/086/640973

Soggetti

Gays - Employment - United States

Gay labor union members - United States - Political activity

Gay liberation movement - United States

Gay rights - United States

Civil rights - United States

Coming out (Sexual orientation) - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Out of Labor's Dark Age: Sexual Politics Comes to the Workplace; The Growing Alliance between Gay and Union Activists; Beyond Gay: ""Deviant"" Sex and the Politics of the ENDA Workplace; What Is This Movement Doing to My Politics?; Sexuality, Labor, and the New Trade Unionism: A Conversation; Strike a Pose for Justice: The Barneys Union Campaign of 1996; Conversations with a GenderQueer: Talking with Riki Anne Wilchins; Trollops and Tribades: Queers Organizing in the Sex Business; Being a Lesbian Trade Unionist: The Intersection of Movements

Making Out at Work""Top-Down"" or ""Bottom-Up""? Sexual Identity and Workers' Rights in a Municipal Union; Homophobia, Labor's Last Frontier? A Discussion with Labor Leaders William Fletcher Jr., Yvette Herrera, Gloria Johnson, and Van Alan Sheets; Kingdom Come: Gay Days at Disney World; Imagining the Gay-Labor Alliance: A Forum; Afterword; Contributors; Permissions

Sommario/riassunto

Although mainstream gay rights organizations have tended to imagine



their community as primarily middle class, an overwhelming number of lesbians and gays are working class, and many are already union members. Out at Work identifies the important parallels between the labor and gay rights movements and their shared work of foregrounding human rights, fighting homophobia, and embracing the full range of sexual expression.