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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... bill , later deleted , explicitly revoked the certificate of registration held by the Mattachine Society of Washington . We alerted the District of Columbia Government and the local ACLU and requested hearings on the bill . The hearings ...
... bill out to the floor . We imme- diately alerted the ACLU who sent telegrams to 40 congressmen ; we also sent telegrams . Two weeks later a minority report opposing the bill was is- sued by 9 of the 24 committee members , including Rep ...
... bill , called Intro 475. Mayor Lindsay and Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Norton endorse and support it . Indeed , enough of the members of the City Council have signed a petition committing their votes of support , that the bill ...
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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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