Great Speeches on Gay Rights (Dover Thrift Editions)
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486475123 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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James Daley is the editor of several Dover Thrift editions, including The World's Greatest Short Stories, Classic Crime Stories, Favorite Christmas Poems, Great Speeches by African Americans, and Great Writers on the Art of Fiction.
A positive view of gay history, but too general and without context H. Williams At the April 2011 meeting, the LGBT Book Group met at the LGBT Center in NYC to discuss "Great Speeches on Gay Rights" edited by James Daley.Reading famous speeches of various periods is a great way to learn gay history and identify key figures and themes in the movement. It also offers a slightly alternative view of history since, in may of the cases, we
About the AuthorJames Daley is the editor of several Dover Thrift editions, including The World's Greatest Short Stories, Classic Crime Stories, Favorite Christmas Poems, Great Speeches by African Americans, and Great Writers on the Art of Fiction.
It chronicles the progression from its deeply clandestine beginnings to the battle for recognition, through political struggles and victories of the mid-twentieth century to its current position — at the forefront of the mainstream political debate concerning the fight for marriage equality. The speeches include Robert G. "Even on the printed page these speeches retain their power." — The Gay & Lesbian ReviewThis comprehensive anthology traces the rhetoric of the gay rights movement from the late nineteenth century to the present. Ingersoll's "Address at the Funeral of Walt Whitman"; Harvey Milk's "Hope Speech"; "Civil Liberties: A Progress Report" by Franklin Kameny; Harry Hay's "Unity and More in '84"; and Urvashi Vaid's "Speech at the Mar