Description
Have pride in history. A rich and sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, from the creators and curators of the massively popular Instagram account LGBT History.
If you think the fight for justice and equality only began in the streets outside Stonewall, with brave patrons of a bar fighting back, you need to read We Are Everywhere right Cooper
Through the lenses of protest, power, and pride, We Are Everywhere is an essential and empowering introduction to the history of the fight for queer liberation. Combining exhaustively researched narrative with meticulously curated photographs, the book traces queer activism from its roots in late-nineteenth-century Europelong before the pivotal Stonewall Riots of 1969to the gender warriors leading the charge today.
Featuring more than 300 images from more than seventy photographers and twenty archives, this inclusive and intersectional book enables us to truly see queer history unlike anything before, with glimpses of activism in the decades preceding and following Stonewall, family life, marches, protests, celebrations, mourning, and Pride. By challenging many of the assumptions that dominate mainstream LGBTQ+ history, We Are Everywhere shows readers how they canand musthonor the queer past in order to shape our liberated future.
Author: Matthew Riemer, Leighton Brown
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 05/07/2019
Pages: 368
Weight: 4.4lbs
Size: 12.20h x 8.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780399581816
Language: English
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