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‘We Took Care of Each Other’: A Maritime Union’s Hidden History of Gay-Straight and Interracial Solidarity

Decades before the modern LGBTQ+ movement, West Coast maritime workers organized against gay-bashing and red-baiting.

Jonathan Kissam June 25, 2021

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The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is a project of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).