Speaking for Our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian Rights/1892-2000
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,...
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Ridinger (chair, Electronic Information Resources Management, Northern Illinois University) collects the most important public rhetoric on gay and lesbian rights, along with political manifestoes, broadsheets, and performance pieces of the gay and lesbian liberation movement. Brief commentary introducing each selection discusses the selection's author, the occasion of the speech or other excerpt, and the political and social contexts in which it first appeared. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
