Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers

by Anne Balay

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146962723X
• ISBN13: 9781469627236
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"