The Gay Agenda - A Modern Queer History & Handbook

A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community''s development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring 100 full-color illustrations. Compiled and designed by queer power couple and illustrators extraordinaire, Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham, founders of the popular stationery company Ash + Chess, The Gay Agenda is an inviting and entertaining guide that pays tribute to the LGBTQ+ community. Filled with engaging descriptions, interesting facts, helpful features--such as historical queer icons and events and LGBTQ+ acronym definitions--this fabulous compendium illuminates the transformation of the community, highlighting its struggles, achievements, landmarks, and contributions. It also salutes iconic members of the LGBTQ+ community--the celebrities, politicians, entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens who have made a notable impact on gay life and society itself. The Gay Agenda is a nostalgic look back for older generations, an archive for younger people, and a helpful introduction for those interested in learning more about the community and its contributions. From James Baldwin and Emma Goldman to Marsha P. Johnson and Jodie Foster; the Pink Triangle and the Rainbow Flag to Stonewall and the AIDS crisis; Matthew Shepard and Pulse Nightclub to Sodomy Laws and Obergefell; Drag and Transitioning to The L Word and The Kinsey Scale, Freddie Mercury and Ellen Degeneres to Laverne Cox and David Bowie, this magnificent digest is a keepsake honoring all LGBTQ+, and the ongoing fight to gain--and maintain--equality for all.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley Molesso, Ashley Needham Molesso, MOLESSO ASHLEY, Chessie Needham
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780062944559
• ISBN: 978-0-06-294455-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Of specific Lesbian interest, Relating to lesbians, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Relating to gay people, Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies, LGBTQ STUDIES: HISTORY, SOCIAL SCIENCE: LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: LGBTQ+, SOCIAL SCIENCE: LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, American style / tradition comic books, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / LGBTQ+ / General