Gay railroad workers
People, Pride and Progress
Ashlynn Hudson-Welburn
Hi, I’m Ashlynn. I joined the National Railway Museum in and have been a part of our curatorial team since I’m delighted to currently be responsible for managing People, Pride and Progress, a project built out of my passion to spot LGBTQIA+ history adj recorded and for our community’s experience to be more visible and understood across the past.
In my role I look after our wonderful team of community volunteers helping us to register these stories, coordinate with our colleagues and friends across the community and industry, and verb the day-to-day operations of the project.
Alison Kay
Hi, I’m Alison. I’ve worked in railway archives since , I’m a qualified archivist and now a Senior Curator managing a team working on exciting projects to uncover and preserve railway history. I am currently the Project Leader for People Pride and Progress, I contain overall responsibility for the project, making sure we are in budget and working to gather our aims. I am thoroughly enjoying working with the project team, th
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Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, – / Railroad Radicals: Gender, Class, and Memory in Cold War Mexico
Labor B o o k R e v ie w s gay and lesbian bosses. They ignored the complaints of some workers that “being gay and working for a gay is not what it’s cracked up to be” (). When at last gay union leaders began to target gay-owned workplaces that employed largely gay workers, dual loyalties hindered the organization process. And even union members who had approach to terms with LGBT issues sometimes had difficulty with trans members and the notion of transsexual- ity, leaving the process of neutralizing sexual orientation for workplace purposes far from finished. Frank adopts an anecdotal strategy to tell her story. Moving from the personal expe- riences of LGBT union members in the fifties and first sixties, she takes us into the con- versations inside union locals and moves from there to the moments when LGBT members literally put their bodies on the line in arrange to challenge labor-movement hostility. For her, personal experiences constitute a moving en
A little LGBTQIA+ railway history
Ashlynn Welburn explores the intertwined histories of the LGBTQIA+ community and the railways.
Told often as a history of technologies and engineering, the story of our railways is a deeply human story. Every development has been human-led, driven by human needs and desires, and the effects of every development have been wide-reaching in shaping the lives and experiences of people across all walks of life and society. Built to help society, the railways in turn became one of the key influences shaping societies and their communities.
The history of the LGBTQIA+ community is, like so many others, one that is heavily entwined with the story of our railways. Earlier this year I began researching this relationship and establishing partnerships to help us delve deeper into this history. As a large inter-sectional community, not only were LGBTQIA+ individuals involved in establishing and building the industry at all levels, but the railways played many fundamental roles in LGBTQIA+ lives.
Travel Revolution and the LGBTQIA+ Community
One of the mos
Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, – / Railroad Radicals: Gender, Class, and Memory in Cold War Mexico
Labor B o o k R e v ie w s gay and lesbian bosses. They ignored the complaints of some workers that “being gay and working for a gay is not what it’s cracked up to be” (). When at last gay union leaders began to target gay-owned workplaces that employed largely gay workers, dual loyalties hindered the organization process. And even union members who had approach to terms with LGBT issues sometimes had difficulty with trans members and the notion of transsexual- ity, leaving the process of neutralizing sexual orientation for workplace purposes far from finished. Frank adopts an anecdotal strategy to tell her story. Moving from the personal expe- riences of LGBT union members in the fifties and first sixties, she takes us into the con- versations inside union locals and moves from there to the moments when LGBT members literally put their bodies on the line in arrange to challenge labor-movement hostility. For her, personal experiences constitute a moving en
A little LGBTQIA+ railway history
Ashlynn Welburn explores the intertwined histories of the LGBTQIA+ community and the railways.
Told often as a history of technologies and engineering, the story of our railways is a deeply human story. Every development has been human-led, driven by human needs and desires, and the effects of every development have been wide-reaching in shaping the lives and experiences of people across all walks of life and society. Built to help society, the railways in turn became one of the key influences shaping societies and their communities.
The history of the LGBTQIA+ community is, like so many others, one that is heavily entwined with the story of our railways. Earlier this year I began researching this relationship and establishing partnerships to help us delve deeper into this history. As a large inter-sectional community, not only were LGBTQIA+ individuals involved in establishing and building the industry at all levels, but the railways played many fundamental roles in LGBTQIA+ lives.
Travel Revolution and the LGBTQIA+ Community
One of the mos