This anthology trac the rhetoric of the gay rights movement om s eply clanste begngs the late 1800s through the current fight for marriage equaly. Speech clu Robert G. Ingersoll's "Addrs at the Funeral of Walt Whman and Harvey Milk's "Hope Speech." "Even on the prted page the speech reta their power." — <I>The Gay & Lbian Review</I>.
Contents:
- AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?
- HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
- OBAMA'S SPEECH (TEXT): TRANSCRIPT OF PRINT OBAMA'S SPEECH ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
- GREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS ADD TO WISHLISTGREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS
- GREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS
AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?
No one anticipated , but Print Barack Obama ed the ocsn of his send Ingural Addrs to give what was perhaps the most important gay-rights … * famous speeches about gay rights *
In his inic novel Gvanni’s Room, gay thor Jam Baldw mak a powerful statement about love. Karl Herich Ulrichs is known as one of the first gay men to publicly announce his sexual inty. Durg his lifetime, Ulrichs wrote numero says discsg homosexualy and assertg that non-heterosexual orientatns are natural and blogil.
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, a former Icelandic Prime Mister and the first openly gay head of state, uttered the words durg a speech at a 2014 Pri ftival. Arsham Parsi, an Iranian refugee livg Canada exile, has ma his missn to help LGBTQ people livg Iran: a natn where acts of homosexualy are punishable by floggg or even ath.
“If you help elect more gay people, that giv a green light to all who feel disenanchised a green light to move forward. When Harvey Milk beme the first openly gay person elected to public office California, he beme the face of the ph to put more LGBTQ people posns of power. “The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pri march exist or why Gay Pri Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought should be.
HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
Five months before his assassatn 1978, Harvey Milk lled on the print of the Uned Stat to fend the rights of gay and lbian Amerins. * famous speeches about gay rights *
“If a transvte don’t say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte, then nobody else is gog to hop up there and say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte for them.
In her time practicg law, she has dited her reer to helpg those who have been the victims of her untry’s harsh laws agast homosexualy. Organized relign has been one of the harsht crics of homosexualy, cg holy wrgs as evince that go agast God. “The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I’m gay.
Perry was relig for much of his life, but was trated by feelg unwele as a gay man. Gay men were the group most ravaged by the disease, and the most feared and hated group bee of .
OBAMA'S SPEECH (TEXT): TRANSCRIPT OF PRINT OBAMA'S SPEECH ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
Obama's Speech (TEXT): Transcript Of Print Obama's Speech About Gay Rights * famous speeches about gay rights *
In 2013, Tammy Baldw ma history by beg the first openly gay Senator the Uned Stat.
In 2014, Jason Colls ma history by beg the first male profsnal athlete to publicly intify himself as gay.
GREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS ADD TO WISHLISTGREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS
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GREAT SPEECH ON GAY RIGHTS
No one anticipated , but Print Barack Obama ed the ocsn of his send Ingural Addrs to give what was perhaps the most important gay-rights speech Amerin history. Print Obama ed the ocsn to make the first direct reference to gay-rights an Ingural Addrs, and he did so wh a power and forthrightns we have not heard before, even om two-thirds of the way to the speech, Obama referred to Stonewall, a gay bar where, 1969, a police raid provoked a rt, the same sentence as Sene Falls and Selma—th parg the women’s and Ain-Amerin civil-rights movements to the gay-rights stggle. Had he stopped there, would have been historic—particularly g om the first Ain-Amerin Print—but, keepg wh the tradn of policians who refer to gay-rights obliquely or wh words, stoppg short of the Print ntued:Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law—for if we are tly created equal, then surely the love we m to one another mt be equal as only was this a ll to end discrimatn, but an unambiguo argument for the regnn of same-sex marriage across the untry.
That uld nceivably spell the end of anti-gay-marriage state-nstutnal amendments across the untry. We are awag word as to whether the Jtice Department will enter that se on behalf of gay-rights advot.