Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
Date 11/11/2015 - 12:00amLocation: Dana Room, John Cotton Dana Library, 185 University Avenue, Newark, NJ 07102
Out in the Union tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013. Miriam Frank chronicles the evolution of labor politics with queer activism and identity formation, showing how unions began affirming the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Miriam Frank grew up in Newark during the 1950s. She retired from full-time teaching at NYU in 2014 where she is currently Adjunct Professor of Humanities. She has also taught Labor History in union education programs in New York City and in Detroit, where she was a founder of Women’s Studies at Wayne County Community College.
Presented by the Queer Newark Oral History Project, and co-sponsored by the Federated Department of History, the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, the Department of African American and African Studies, the Graduate Program in American Studies, the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, the History Graduate Student Association, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, and the Office of Student Life - LGBTQ & Diversity Resources.