Gay Blue Collar Books

Contents:

• 'DISTURBG RULTS': GAY MEN BLUE-LLAR JOBS FACE MORE DISCRIMATN CANADA, FDS HALIFAX UNIVERSY REARCH STUDY
• AIN-AMERINS, BLUE-LLAR WORKERS DO AN ABOUT-FACE ON GAY MARRIAGE: POLL
• TAG: GAY BLUE LLAR WORKER
• GAY BLUE COLLAR BOOKS

'DISTURBG RULTS': GAY MEN BLUE-LLAR JOBS FACE MORE DISCRIMATN CANADA, FDS HALIFAX UNIVERSY REARCH STUDY

While Canada pris self on beg clive when to the LGBTQ muny, a new rearch study om two Halifax universi suggts dividuals who are openly queer – pecially gay men - ntue to face discrimatn hirg, pecially blue-llar tras like weldg. The paper c rearch sayg that gay men, particular, are often paid ls than their heterosexual unterparts. “Gay men’s stereotypil characterizatn as more feme than heterosexual men is not favourable to their employment blue-llar jobs, ” the paper stat.

AIN-AMERINS, BLUE-LLAR WORKERS DO AN ABOUT-FACE ON GAY MARRIAGE: POLL

gay a blue llar environment. i work a pretty blue llar job (nstctn) and hoo boy let me tell you 's not one of the workplac where i uld jt sually go "im gay btw". Im closeted at work so as ppl assume i'm straight they also thk 's pletely safe to say really homophobic sh to me.

TAG: GAY BLUE LLAR WORKER

I almost feel like i would hope to get some sually homophobic jokg about , 's almost worse if everyone was jt really quiet bee knowg all the vrlic sh a lot of my -workers say out loud, that would mean somethg is up.

GAY BLUE COLLAR BOOKS

's really hard for me to image suatns i sometim hear om ppl about workplac where 's jt naturally ol and ok to be gay.

So like i gus i wonr if there are any other gay folks workg tras or such and what are peopl experienc of that? I’m hant to label dis as blue llar mic sce started gay unrground clubs and end up epomized by Stud 54 (a very un-blue llar tablishment if there ever was one). However, the dis craze fely h the blue llar world a big way, and s hostile backlash the early 1980s may have been jt as much about class warfare as was about homophobia.