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Contents:
- THE ISOLATED LIV OF NORTH DAKOTA'S GAY OIL FIELD WORKERS
- GAY WORKERS AT TEXAS OIL COMPANI FACE CHOICE BETWEEN ‘PRCIPLE AND PAYCHECK’
- BIG OIL PANI SAY THEY SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, BUT OPERATE MORE THAN 40 UNTRI THAT CRIMALIZE SAME-SEX BEHAVR. IT LEAV SOME LGBTQ WORKERS UGHT BETWEEN 2 WORLDS.
THE ISOLATED LIV OF NORTH DAKOTA'S GAY OIL FIELD WORKERS
* gay oil rig workers *
Like most such enunters the oil patch, ours origated on Grdr, the mobile hookup app for gay, bisexual, and cur men.
"You make money up here and you leave, " another gay worker, a 23-year-old who works for a pany that rents and sells motors to drill wells, told me.
GAY WORKERS AT TEXAS OIL COMPANI FACE CHOICE BETWEEN ‘PRCIPLE AND PAYCHECK’
Across the Texas oil and gas dtry, lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr workers stggle to navigate the workplace where acceptance, openns and * gay oil rig workers *
"And leav ltle time for gay men to build a muny. Onle platforms like Grdr provi a means for some gay workers the area to nnect wh one another.
BIG OIL PANI SAY THEY SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, BUT OPERATE MORE THAN 40 UNTRI THAT CRIMALIZE SAME-SEX BEHAVR. IT LEAV SOME LGBTQ WORKERS UGHT BETWEEN 2 WORLDS.
Homophobia never lgers far om the surface. Others figure the risk of creatg ictn at the workplace isn't worth their peace of the vast majory of employers the state, most pani the oil patch do not provi discrimatn protectns for gay and trans workers.
That means, if you're a roughneck who's out on the job—or a tck driver, or a welr, or a pipe fter—your boss n probably fire you for beg gay, and there's not a damn thg you n do about . Are no gay bars North Dakota. The state's three biggt ci, Bismarck, Grand Forks, and Fargo, offer the ocsnal drag show, but they, too, are hours away om the Starle Club, one of the regn's few LGBT-iendly bars Mot, a growg cy of 46, 000 on the eastern edge of the patch, is the clost there is to a gay mec the parts.