04872nam 2201129 a 450 991078604810332120231213002126.00-520-95530-710.1525/9780520955301(CKB)2670000000325847(EBL)1120970(OCoLC)827207381(SSID)ssj0000820229(PQKBManifestationID)11430501(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820229(PQKBWorkID)10862754(PQKB)10722508(StDuBDS)EDZ0001535525(MiAaPQ)EBC1120970(OCoLC)966762196(MdBmJHUP)muse52232(DE-B1597)520598(OCoLC)828743568(DE-B1597)9780520955301(Au-PeEL)EBL1120970(CaPaEBR)ebr10654375(CaONFJC)MIL436405(EXLCZ)99267000000032584720121114d2013 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrPlane queer[electronic resource] labor, sexuality, and AIDS in the history of male flight attendants /Phil TiemeyerBerkeley University of California Press20131 online resource (301 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27477-6 0-520-27476-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The pre-World War II "gay" flight attendant -- The Cold War gender order -- "Homosexual panic" and the steward's demise -- Flight attendants and queer civil rights -- Flight attendants, women's liberation, and gay liberation -- Flight attendants and the origins of an epidemic -- The traynor legacy versus the "patient zero" myth -- Queer equality in the age of neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.In this vibrant new history, Phil Tiemeyer details the history of men working as flight attendants. Beginning with the founding of the profession in the late 1920's and continuing into the post-September 11 era, Plane Queer examines the history of men who joined workplaces customarily identified as female-oriented. It examines the various hardships these men faced at work, paying particular attention to the conflation of gender-based, sexuality-based, and AIDS-based discrimination. Tiemeyer also examines how this heavily gay-identified group of workers created an important place for gay men to come out, garner acceptance from their fellow workers, fight homophobia and AIDS phobia, and advocate for LGBT civil rights. All the while, male flight attendants facilitated key breakthroughs in gender-based civil rights law, including an important expansion of the ways that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act would protect workers from sex discrimination. Throughout their history, men working as flight attendants helped evolve an industry often identified with American adventuring, technological innovation, and economic power into a queer space.Flight attendantsUnited StatesHistoryFlight attendantsLabor unionsUnited StatesGay peopleEmploymentUnited StatesSexual orientationUnited StatesCivil rightsUnited StatesHistory1964 civil rights act.20th century.aids phobia.air transport.career.civil rights.engaging.flight.flying.gay men.gender studies.historical.history of lgbt.history.hiv aids.homophobia.homosexual panic.labor.lgbt business.lgbt history.lgbt interest.lgbt.lgbtqia.lively.male flight attendants.page turner.pilots.political.queer books.queer studies.queer.sex and gender.sex and sexuality.social issues.social justice.Flight attendantsHistory.Flight attendantsLabor unionsGay peopleEmploymentSexual orientationCivil rightsHistory.331.7/61387742Tiemeyer Philip James1970-1479313MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786048103321Plane queer3695374UNINA