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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... cause the unenlightened have made it so . To earn a living we integrate with the heterosexual population by donning a false garment of heterosexuality ourselves . We must conceal and dissimulate because it is unlawful to be what we are ...
... cause with the male homosexual - her role in society has been of mediator between the male homosexual and society . The recent DOB Convention was such a ges- ture . The reason we were able to get the public officials there was because ...
... cause in America . Be it the cause of the suffragette or the black , the Nazi or the Ku Klux Klan , the feminists , or the war resisters the A.C.L.U. has defended many , many thousands of indi- viduals and causes . Many of them are long ...
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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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