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Adam Lee
Adam (he/him) is a 23 year old bartender in Williamsburg who is pursuing acting and bartending on the side to support himself. Adam moved to the city from California for school at NYU and has been working in restaurants and bars since his time here.…
Tags: acting, bar, bartending, customer service, gay bar, gay men, lgbtq, management, restaurant, server, williamsburg
Aneé Carey
Aneé Carey (any pronouns), is an eighteen-year-old college freshman majoring in psychology. In this interview, Aneé recounts experiences of working his first job at Target through the lens of a black and queer person under nonblack, cishet…
Tags: Black, community, oral history, queer, queerphobia, racism, retail, target
April Paschke
This interview is with April Paschke (she/her), a former employee of Culver’s and other restaurants in Wisconsin, recorded by Katie McLean. She worked at the drive thru window at Culvers, as well as working as a hostess at a local pizza place. In…
Tags: dreams, food service, gender, gender expression, mid-west, queer work, restaurant, trans
Autumn Muñoz
Autumn Muñoz (They/Them Pronouns) is an NYU Drama/Politics Major who worked in Fort Worth, Texas at the daycare they grew up in. Through this interview they examine their time in childcare work and the way that shaped the world as they see it now.…
Tags: childcare, community, daycare, lesbian, non-binary
Cate Christiansen
Cate Christiansen (she/they) is a young, queer lesbian from Salt Lake City, Utah currently living in NYC. She attends NYU where she studies Cinema Studies and minors in dance. They work as a barista at a coffee shop named Blank Street in SoHo. Cate…
Tags: barista, blank street, food, lesbian, nyu, queer visibility, soho
Charm
Charm (they/them) is a self defined queer stripper, dancer, and entertainer from Baltimore, Maryland. In this comprehensive interview, they discuss complexities of relationships with co-workers, clients, and themselves. They also describe the…