Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage And Inspire [Paperback]

Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation.
 
A sister title to Great Women’s Speeches (2021), and the pocket edition of Loud and Proud (2020),Great LGBTQ+ Speechesis a pioneering collection ofover 40 empowering and influential speeches that chart the history of the LGBTQ+ movement.

Photocollage portraits and enlightening commentaries accompany the words ofAudre Lorde, Harvey Milk, Munroe Bergdorf, Sir Elton Johnand more. Together these speakers touch on all aspects of LGBTQ+ life fromequal marriageto theAIDS crisis,bullyingtoparenthood, the first 19th century campaigns through totrans rights allyshiptoday.

We are stronger when we stand together, and this collection from award-winning activist Tea Uglow encourages us to do just that whilst celebrating the beauty of our differences.
 

• Pour through a pioneering collection oftalks, declarations and lectures, from people whose voices have too often been marginalised and the allies that support them; 
• Findover 40 empowering and influential speechesthat chart the history of the LGBTQ+ movement up to the present day; 
• Each speech is presented with astriking photographic portraitand an insightful introduction, offeringessential context, fresh insights and a nuanced understanding thatbrings each character and their words to life. 

The voices:Audre Lorde; Harvey Milk; Munroe Bergdorf; Sir Elton John; Sir Ian McKellen; George Takei; Sylvia Rivera; Bayard Rustin; Elizabeth Toledo; Alison Bechdel; Loretta E. Lynch; Hanne Gaby Odiele; Vito Russo; Tammy Baldwin; Hillary Rodham Clinton; Barak Obama; Senator Karl Heinrich Ulrichs; Robert G. Ingersoll; Theodora Ana Sprungli; Franklin Frank lã"