Politics & Gay Rights, Speeches

Great Speeches on Gay Rights

Name: Great Speeches on Gay Rights
Author: James Daley
ISBN: 9780486475127

by James Daley

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Overview

This anthology traces the rhetoric of the gay rights movement from its deeply clandestine beginnings in the late 1800s through the current fight for marriage equality. Speeches include Robert G. Ingersoll's "Address at the Funeral of Walt Whitman and Harvey Milk's "Hope Speech." "Even on the printed page these speeches retain their power." — The Gay & Lesbian Review.

Synopsis

Tracing the movement's rhetoric from the late 1800s to the present, this anthology includes Ingersoll's "Address at the Funeral of Walt Whitman," Milk's "Hope Speech," and Kameny's "Civil Liberties: A Progress Report."