The Children of Harvey Milk

How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-046095-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 641 g

Part political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights.

Featuring LGBTQ icons from America to Ireland, Britain to New Zealand; Reynolds documents their successes and failures, heartwarming stories of acceptance and heartbreaking stories of ostracism, demonstrating the ways in which an individual can change the views and voting behaviors of those around them. The book also includes rare vignettes of LGBTQ leaders in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean who continue to fight for equality in spite of threats, violence, and homophobia.

A touchstone narrative of the tumultuous journey towards LGBTQ rights, The Children of Harvey Milk is a must-read for anyone with an interest in social change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reynolds, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents

- Acknowledgments

- Prologue

- Chapter 1. The Milk Prinicple

- Chapter 2. The Ballad of Peter and Simon

- Chapter 3. I Have Quite a Powerful and Carrying Voice

- Chapter 4. I Have Never Come Across a Homo in This House

- Chapter 5. From Mississippi to Marriage

- Chapter 6. Being First

- Chapter 7. St. Christopher

- Chapter 8. More Like Hell Than Heaven

- Chapter 9. Cinders Goes to the Ball

- Chapter 10. Mel and the Bees

- Chapter 11. Southern Queers

- CHapter 12. The Washington 43rd

- Chapter 13. The Right Gays

- Chapter 14. Britain Goes Gay at the Polls

- Chapter 15. You Wine Some, You Lose Some

- Conclusion

- Appendix A: Interviews Conducted

- Appendix B: Out LGBTQ Parliamentarians 1976-2017

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Reynolds, Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Founded and directs the UNC LGBTQ Representation and Rights Research Initiative, the leading global think tank focused on LGBTQ politics. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, New Statesman, and widely online. His twelve non-fiction books range from African politics to the Arab Spring, elections to the future of democracy. For twenty-five years he has been an advisor on democratic design in the worldâs most dangerous places. From South Africa to Somalia, Afghanistan to Libya, Burma to Ukraine, and many others.