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Beacon Press
Language
English
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"The book explores the role that LGBT rights activism directed at corporations and corporate activism on behalf of sexual orientation and gender identity equality have played in the LGBT movement's pursuit of political, legal, and social objectives from the Stonewall era until today." --
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English
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"The first American gay rights organization formed in 1924, but was soon pressured to disband. Another wouldn t form until the 1950s. The history of the U.S. movement to achieve progressive rights for people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, or queer is full of stops and starts and victories and tragedies, but also hope for the future. This important and timely volume describes a topic of history often glossed over...
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Stylus Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Allyship, Friendship, Kinship, Relationships. The suffix 'ship' expresses quality, condition or state of being. Allyship is the quality or condition of being an ally. This book is an exploration of that state of being, which the authors in this volume have spent their lives developing. Being an ally is typically thought of as a role that a person from a privileged group plays toward a person in an oppressed group. But as you will find in reading...
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English
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"The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including: Current and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language, tips for what to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you, LGBTQ+ etiquette and techniques for respectful conversations,...
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Publisher
BrazosPress, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
At age twenty, Lindsey Krinks thought she had her life figured out. But a devastating injury and an unexpected encounter with a homeless organizing group disrupted her plans and opened her eyes to the immense suffering and injustice around her. Awakened to a fierce pursuit of justice and a faith that called her to "pray with her feet," Krinks plunged into the underside of American society, where she found both staggering loss and astounding love....
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Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Since the Stonewall Riots in 1969, the LGBTQIA+ experience has changed dramatically. Progress, while remarkable, has not been quick or expansive enough. And now, fears arise that advances to established rights could be rolled back. What rights do these Americans enjoy, and in what ways do they continue to be discriminated against? Do anti-LGBTQIA+ policies put lives at risk? What are the issues that matter most to these individuals in pursuit of...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Historians have noted that gay identity is central to the history of capitalism, but because of an assumption that workplaces were "straight spaces" in which queer people passed, historians of sexuality have had almost nothing to say about work, instead directing their attention to the street and to the bar. This book presents employment and the accompanying fear of job loss as one of the most salient features of queer life for most of the twentieth...
19) Civil rights
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Bearport Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Throughout U.S. history, many groups of people have had to fight for their civil rights-and many are still fighting today. Black Lives Matter protesters work to stop police violence. Water protectors defend Native American lands. Explore how these groups and others have fought and are still fighting for civil rights. It's key current events topics made approachable for all!"--
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Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon.Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to every American's personal sovereignty. And yet, millions...
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