Title Plane queer : labor, sexuality, and AIDS in the history of male flight attendants / Phil Tiemeyer

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- The pre-World War II "gay" flight attendant -- The Cold War gender order -- "Homosexual panic" and the steward's demise -- Flight attendants and queer civil rights -- Flight attendants, women's liberation, and gay liberation -- Flight attendants and the origins of an epidemic -- The traynor legacy versus the "patient zero" myth -- Queer equality in the age of neoliberalism -- Conclusion Summary "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."--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Flight attendants -- United States -- History Flight attendants -- Labor unions -- United States Gay people -- Employment -- United States Sexual orientation -- United States Civil rights -- United States -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital. HISTORY -- United States -- General. Civil rights Flight attendants Flight attendants -- Labor unions Gays -- Employment Sexual orientation United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012041959 ISBN 9780520955301 0520955307 9781299051553 1299051553 0520274768 9780520274761 0520274776 9780520274778

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