But MCS quickly became an all-White union that sought to exclude Asian workers from the maritime workplace. Following its reorganization in 1934, the MCS began a slow, painful transformation into one of the most progressive labor unions in the United States. The racial politics of labor further infected the culture of the MCS in ways that amplified the union’s queer dimensions. Second, the open secret of MCS sexual dissidence opened the union to incorporating queer representations into the vernacular graphics of the union. The racial politics of labor further infected the culture of the MCS in ways that amplified the union’s queer dimensions.