Description
Book SynopsisTells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013. This book chronicles the evolution of labor politics with queer activism and identity formation, showing how unions began affirming the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Table of Contents Acknowledgments
A Brief Chronology of LGBT Labor History, 1965–2013
Prologue: Love and Work and Queer Survival
I Coming Out
1 From Construction to Couture: Coming Out in Unionized Workplaces
2 Outsiders as Insiders: Sexual Diversity and Union Leadership
II Coalition Politics
3 From Common Enemies to Common Causes: The Labor Movement and the Gay Movement in Action and Coalition
4 The Heart of the Matter: Union Politics, Queer Issues, and the Life of the Local
III Conflict and Transformation
5 Organizing the Gay Unorganized: Talking Union, Talking Queer
Epilogue: When Connie Married Phyllis
Notes
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