Speaking for Our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian Rights (1892-2000)Harrington Park Press, 2004 - Počet stran: 905 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:
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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... York City on Christo- pher Street near Sheridan Square , attended by both leaders of the gay liberation movement and members of New York's city council , along with prominent civic figures and entertainers . The object of the rally was ...
... York City , 425-426 , 758 Philadelphia , 551 police , 425-426 Sacramento , 808 San Francisco , 380 Scott , Virgil , 808 Shepard , Matthew , 782 , 783-784 Sheriff , Ed , 808 statistics , 632-633 Washington , DC , 687 , 688 , 689 Wyoming ...
... York City ) , Hermaphrodites , 343 587 Hate crimes Clinton , William Jefferson , 723 Hate Crimes Statistics Act , 611 , 758 as human rights violation , 792-797 Shepard , Matthew , 782 , 783-784 Washington , DC , 687 , 688 , 689 Hate ...
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March 30 1892 Address at the Funeral of Walt Whitman | 7 |
Appeal on Behalf of an Oppressed Human Variety | 22 |
Address to the International Committee | 31 |
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