Queer Activism in the Labor Movement

http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4338
Date Written:  2015-01-31
Publisher:  Solidarity
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX18118

In the 1970s, Teresa Rankin kept her sexual orientation private while organizing textile workers at J.P. Stevens in North Carolina. When the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) offered her an organizing position in a small town in Virginia, Rankin, turned down the opportunity fearing isolation due to her sexual orientation.

Subject Headings

• Gay & Lesbian History
• Labour Movement
• Labour Organizing
• Queer Movement/Queer Activism
• Union Organizing