Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage and Inspire

Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation.

A sister title to Great Women's Speeches (2021), and the pocket edition of Loud and Proud (2020), Great LGBTQ+ Speeches is a pioneering collection of over 40 empowering and influential speeches that chart the history of the LGBTQ+ movement.

Photocollage portraits and enlightening commentaries accompany the words of Audre Lorde, Harvey Milk, Munroe Bergdorf, Sir Elton John and more. Together these speakers touch on all aspects of LGBTQ+ life from equal marriage to the AIDS crisis, bullying to parenthood, the first 19th century campaigns through to trans rights allyship today.

We are stronger when we stand together, and this collection from award-winning activist Tea Uglow encourages us to do just that whilst celebrating the beauty of our differences.

• Pour through a pioneering collection of talks, declarations and lectures, from people whose voices have too often been marginalised and the allies that support them
  
• Find over 40 empowering and influential speeches that chart the history of the LGBTQ+ movement up to the present day
  
• Each speech is presented with a striking photographic portrait and an insightful introduction, offering essential context, fresh insights and a nuanced understanding that brings each character and their words to life.

The voices: Audre Lorde
Harvey Milk
Munroe Bergdorf
Sir Elton John
Sir Ian McKellen
George Takei
Sylvia Rivera
Bayard Rustin
Elizabeth Toledo
Alison Bechdel
Loretta E. Lynch
Hanne Gaby Odiele
Vito Russo
Tammy Baldwin
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Barack Obama
Senator Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Robert G. Ingersoll
Anna Rü
ling
Franklin "Frank" Kameny
Sally Miller Gearhart
Harry Hay
Sue Hyde
Mary Fisher
Essex Hemphill
Simon Nkoli
Urvashi Vaid
Eric Rofes
Justice Michael Kirby
Evan Wolfson
Paul Martin
Ian Hunter
Dan Savage and Terry Miller
Rabbi Kleinbaum
Senator Penny Wong
Arsham Parsi
Anna Grodzka
Debi Jackson
Jhanna Sigurardttir
Lee Mokobe
Ban Ki-moon
Geraldine Roman
Cecilia Chung
Olly Alexander.