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Plane Queer - Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants (Hardcover)
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Plane Queer - Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants (Hardcover)
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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 1920s 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.
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