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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... civil liberties that we assert and fight for - and only those . The civil rights movement of the 1960's broke the dam of discrimination against Blacks , whose rights were not secured even by the Civil War - and who today are still ...
... Citizens for the Republic , 356 Citizen's News ( San Francisco ) , 122 Civil disobedience , 405 , 562 Civil Liberties Act of 1988 , 661 Civil Rights Act ( 1964 ) Amendments , 241 , 620 civil rights law and legislation , 120 , 293 , 433 ...
... Civil Rights , 660 House Un - American Activities Committee ( HUAC ) , 45 , 302 Household Keppeler ( Jackson , Michigan ) , 599 Housing AIDS , 564 Boston , 532 Civil Rights Act ( 1964 ) , 591 Democratic Party platform , 338 ...
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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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