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It's Not Over
Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, & Winning True Equality
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Marriage equality is the law of the land. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But as Michelangelo Signorile argues in his most provocative book yet, the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever. Signorile marshals stinging evidence that an age-old hatred, homophobia, is still a basic fact of American life. He exposes the bigotry of the brewing religious conservative backlash against LGBT rights and challenges the complacency and hypocrisy of supposed allies in Washington, the media, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Just as racism did not disappear with the end of Jim Crow laws or the election of Barack Obama, discrimination and hostility toward gay Americans hasn’t vanished simply by virtue of a Supreme Court decision.
Not just a wake-up call, It’s Not Over is also a battle plan for the fights to come in the march toward equality. Signorile tells the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans who have refused to be merely tolerated and are demanding full acceptance. He documents signs of hope in schools and communities finding new ways to combat ignorance, bullying, and fear. Urgent and empowering, It’s Not Over is a necessary book from “one of America’s most incisive critics and influential activists in the movement for gay equality” (The Intercept).
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- ISBN: 9780544409583
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- ISBN: 9780544409583
- File size: 2633 KB
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- English
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Reviews
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April 1, 2015
In his latest work, veteran journalist and LGBT advocate Signorile (The Huffington Post; Queer in America) offers a passionate exhortation against complacency. This title is a call for sexual minorities to remember that non-straight individuals are, too often, accepted into the mainstream only to the extent they are willing to conform. Signorile reminds us that as same-sex couples are marrying across the country, other forms of discrimination continue unabated--and in some cases intensify as backlash for increased visibility and acceptance. LGBT history and experience is erased from the classroom in the name of protecting children, queer youth face bullying and homelessness at disproportionate rates, workers stay closeted for fear of losing their jobs, businesses refuse to serve queer folks in the name of religion, and the mainstream media continue to give time and space to discredited antigay arguments. The speed of certain narrow victories, Signorile argues, may blind us to continued inequalities. VERDICT Written primarily for a queer audience, this work joins a growing number of texts by LGBT activists meditating on "what's next?" after marriage equality. Signorile's fans will likely enjoy reading his book-length treatment of familiar themes; his voice will be one of many to inform the work of LGBT activists moving into the next phase of the struggle for equality.--Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook, Massachusetts Historical Soc. Lib., Boston
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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November 1, 2014
Marriage equality is a reality in many states. But, notes Signorile, author of the best-selling Queer in America, homophobia remains a part of our social fabric. Signorile looks at politics, entertainment, and the media to uncover continuing signs of resistance--and also reasons to hope that discrimination is waning.
Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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