Gay working

Modern observers, including students of Pierre Bourdieu, have variously extended this idea to suggest that workers have a natural affinity for sexual conservatism, especially homophobia. But there is simply too much historical and geographical variation for us to say that the working class, or, if you will, the popular classes broadly understood, are homophobic by dint of something intrinsic to the class structure.

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To kick off our tour of queer labor leaders, we have to go back almost years to , when year-old Pauline Newman, a Lithuanian immigrant to New York City, was hired at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. She organized up to and in the wake of the devastating Triangle Fire, having known many of the girls who died in the disaster.