Gay blue collar workers
African-Americans, blue-collar workers do an about-face on gay marriage: poll
It’s not just lawmakers who are quickly transforming their tune on lgbtq+ marriage.
There’s been a surprising shift in attitudes among groups who have historically opposed gay marriage, including African-Americans, the elderly, those living in the South, and blue-collar workers.
According to a new NBC/Wall Avenue Journal poll, just four years ago the majority of African-American voters opposed gay marriage, 32%-53%. Those numbers have essentially flipped with now a majority in favor, 51% - 37%.
The largest shift--a very sizable net 66-point swing--came among blue-collar workers. In 2004, the vast majority were opposed to homosexual marriage, with 18% in favor and 80% against it. Today, the poll shows 47% in favor and 43% against.
America’s elderly and those living in the South are also changing their views, although most still are against gay marriage. In 2004, among voters 65 and older, just 16% were supportive while 80% were opposed. Today, 54% are opposed (32% in favor), but that's still a 42-point shift. Similarly, most in the conservative South are against gay marriage, with 42% in favor and 50% opp
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Everything I Have Is Blue: Concise Fiction by Working-Class Men About More-or-Less Gay Experience, by Wendell Ricketts
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Story Blub: In this age of Will & Grace and gentrification, the “dream market” and gay investment advisors, you don’t hear much about working-class queers. In evidence, some would even regard the idea a contradiction in terms. But the contributors to Everything I Have Is Blue: Brief Fiction by Working-Class Men About More-or-Less Gay Animation would beg to differ. The first collection of short stories by working-class queer, gay, and attracted to both genders men, Everything I Include Is Blue is a rich and long-overdue contribution both to the burgeoning field of working-class studies and to LGBTIQ fiction. The international writers involve a professional trucker, a Texas prisoner, a librarian, a poet, an activist, a retired English professor, and a street mime, to name a scant, but what makes their voices powerful and one-of-a-kind isn’t their professions, it’s their ability to straddle ideological and cultural divides that would give Paul Bunyan pause.
It’s after five in the QNews office and two of our long-term cerulean collar tradesmen advertisers acquire dropped in.
Jack Blair-Swannell (pictured above), a landscaper in his 20s, has the face of a cherub and a ready larrikin laugh.
Marc Hansford, an electrician better recognizable as Sparky Marc, is softer spoken, but softly his own man.
Tony Abbott has tub-thumped ad nauseum about the LGBTIQ push for equality as ‘political correctness gone mad’. But the real lives of so many of us hardly fit this description. So here’s an uncensored, on-the-ground flavour of what it’s like to be a male tradie who’s happy to be identified with the LGBTIQ community. We hope you’ll enjoy the ocker frankness of these guys.
Sparky Marc: Been surfing?
Jack: Nah, been too busy
Marc: I’ve got a longboard now.
Jack: I’ll have to go. I haven’t been since Christmas. It’s fuckin’ hot at the moment, eh? How are you dealing with the heat?
Marc: I’m used to it, mate
Jack: So have you got much work on?
Marc: I’ve got a few jobs this week.
Jack (showing a picture on his phone): Guy I’m dating at the moment.
Marc: Is this Mr March?
Jack: No no no! Met him just after Australia day.
Marc: Looks a
Can a Blue Collar - White Collar relationship between two gay guys ever work?
I'm thinking not.
The identity is so different.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | June 17, 2024 9:44 PM |
If it’s Top Cobalt - Bottom White most definitely.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 16, 2024 8:11 AM |
The office bottom white collar bitch would spend his days bitching on Zoom.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 16, 2024 8:14 AM |
nope
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 16, 2024 8:55 AM |
The ivory collar guy would compose an entire essay about his experience and his feels!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 16, 2024 8:57 AM |
If they love each other enough and communicate well, why wouldn't it?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 16, 2024 8:58 AM |
The white collar guy is far more annoying I bet
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 16, 2024 9:19 AM |
If the blue collar guy is a hung top, calculate your blessings and lock up.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 16, 2024 9:37 AM |
The blue-collar dude has no period for white-collar dude's melodramatic bullshit.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 16, 2024 9:39 AM |
Agree with others.
If the blue collar is the top? No issue whatsoever.
If he's the bo
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