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"Read the words they risked everything for!"
This landmark volume collects more than a hundred years of the
most important public rhetoric on gay and lesbian subjects. In the
days when homosexuality was mentioned only in whispers, a few brave
souls stood up to speak for the rights of sexual minorities. In
Speaking for Our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and
Lesbian Rights (1892-2000), their stirring words have finally been
gathered together, along with the political manifestoes,
broadsheets, and performance pieces of the gay and lesbian
liberation movement.
Speaking for Our Lives comprises speeches and manifestoes prompted
by events ranging from demonstrations to funerals. Scholars and
researchers will appreciate the brief commentary introducing each
piece, which discusses the author, the occasion, and the political
and social contexts in which it first appeared.
You'll find the words of a broad variety of individuals and
groups, including: the Victorian humanist and crusader Robert
Ingersoll key groups such as the Mattachine Society, Homosexual Law
Reform Society, Gay Activists Alliance, and International Gay
Association activists and educators Robin Morgan, Joseph Bean, and
Dr. Franklin Kameny, artists and journalists of the movement, such
as John Eric Larsen, Joan Nestle, Barbara Grier, and Jim Kepner
elected officials, including Bella Abzug, Ed Koch, Eleanor Holmes
Norton, Gerry Studds, Tammy Baldwin, and Bill Clinton Many of these
documents have long been out of print. Speaking for Our Lives makes
these noteworthy texts readily available to the broader public they
deserve. This book preserves an essential part of twentieth-century
history.
"Read the words they risked everything for!"
This landmark volume collects more than a hundred years of the
most important public rhetoric on gay and lesbian subjects. In the
days when homosexuality was mentioned only in whispers, a few brave
souls stood up to speak for the rights of sexual minorities. In
Speaking for Our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and
Lesbian Rights (1892-2000), their stirring words have finally been
gathered together, along with the political manifestoes,
broadsheets, and performance pieces of the gay and lesbian
liberation movement.
Speaking for Our Lives comprises speeches and manifestoes prompted
by events ranging from demonstrations to funerals. Scholars and
researchers will appreciate the brief commentary introducing each
piece, which discusses the author, the occasion, and the political
and social contexts in which it first appeared.
You'll find the words of a broad variety of individuals and
groups, including: the Victorian humanist and crusader Robert
Ingersoll key groups such as the Mattachine Society, Homosexual Law
Reform Society, Gay Activists Alliance, and International Gay
Association activists and educators Robin Morgan, Joseph Bean, and
Dr. Franklin Kameny, artists and journalists of the movement, such
as John Eric Larsen, Joan Nestle, Barbara Grier, and Jim Kepner
elected officials, including Bella Abzug, Ed Koch, Eleanor Holmes
Norton, Gerry Studds, Tammy Baldwin, and Bill Clinton Many of these
documents have long been out of print. Speaking for Our Lives makes
these noteworthy texts readily available to the broader public they
deserve. This book preserves an essential part of twentieth-century
history.
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