Anne Balay oral histories with steel workers
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Transcripts of 38 interviews with lesbian, gay, and transgender steel workers from Northwest Indiana and Ontario, Canada. Identifying information of the individual steel workers has been deleted, and may be made available in 2114. Balay asigned pseudonyms. Topics covered in the interviews include workplace hazards, occupational related cancer, alcoholism, masculinity, homophobia in the workplace, and how these individuals negotiate their lives in conditions quite hostile to transgender people and homosexuals.
Dates
- 2009 - 2011.
Creator
- Balay, Anne (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Access Restrictions:
Until January 2064, transcripts may not be digitized, reproduced, or made available electronically. Researchers may view them and take notes, but are not allowed to make reproductions, digital or otherwise. Researchers are not allowed to bring a digital camera into the reading room.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Balay conducted oral history interviews with forty lesbian, gay, and transgender steel workers and subsequently wrote the 2014 book "Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers." Thirty-five steel workers live in Northwest Indiana. Five live in Ontario, Cananda. Four are transgender: one FTM (female to male) and three MTF (male to female).
Extent
.1 cubic feet. (.1 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Transcripts of 38 interviews with lesbian, gay, and transgender steel workers from Northwest Indiana and Ontario, Canada.
Physical Description
Oral histories
NOTES
Collecting Program: Human Sexuality Collection.
- Blue collar workers.
- Butch and femme (Lesbian culture).
- Gay people -- Alcohol use
- Gay people -- Employment
- Homophobia.
- Interviews.
- Iron and steel workers -- Diseases.
- Iron and steel workers -- Indiana -- United States.
- Iron and steel workers -- Ontario -- Canada.
- Masculinity.
- Transgender people -- Alcohol use.
- Transgender people -- Employment.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- March 2014
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
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