Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage And Inspire

Great LGBTQ+ Speeches is a pioneering collection of over 40 empowering and influential speeches that chart the history of the LGBTQ+ movement, featuring speakers such as Audre Lorde, Olly Alexander, Harvey Milk, and more.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 04 April 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation, with speeches from Olly Alexander, Sir Elton John, Alison Bechdel, and more.

A sister title to Great Women's Speeches (2021) and the pocket edition of Loud and Proud (2020), Great LGBTQ+ Speeches is a pioneering collection of over 40 empowering and influential speeches that chart the history of the LGBTQ+ movement. These powerful speakers draw on all aspects of LGBTQ+ life, from equal marriage to the AIDS crisis, bullying to parenthood, the first 19th-century campaigns through to trans rights allyship today.

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 of talks, declarations, and lectures, from people whose voices have too often been marginalised and the allies that support them;

Find over 40 empowering and influential speeches that chart the history of the LGBTQ+ movement up to the present day;

Each speech is presented with a striking photographic portrait and an insightful introduction, offering essential context, fresh insights, and a nuanced understanding that brings each character and their words to life.

The voices:

Audre Lorde;

Olly Alexander;

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 Kameny;

Sally Gearhart;

Harry Hay;

Sue Hyde;

Mary Fisher;

Ess.

Weight: 316g
Dimension: 140 x 200 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780711275010