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 introd

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.
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