{"product_id":"pride-joy-lgbtq-artists-icons-and-everyday-heroes-lgbt-history-gift-for-teen-role-models-for-readers-of-we-make-it-better-9781633535503","title":"Pride \u0026 Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes (LGBT History, Gift for Teen, Role Models, for Readers of We Make It Better)","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eStories of success, happiness and hope from the LGBT community\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStories that comprise the best of LGBT history: \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003ePride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes\u003c\/em\u003etells the stories of queer citizens of the world living OUT and proud happy, fulfilling, successful lives. Diverse and global. Famous and unsung. There is a story here for everyone in the LGBT community who has ever questioned their sexual orientation or gender identity, or discovered it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiscover LGBT community stories that will stir you and reveal: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy Tony Kushner quit cello and how Colm Toibin found his voice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy Emma Donoghue calls her experience a fluke and the best advice Bill T. Jones got was from his mother.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow being an inaugural poet changed Richard Blanco's life and how Ugandan activist \"LongJones\" escaped death threats and gained asylum.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning writer and longtime LGBTQ activist Kathleen Archambeau tells the untold stories from diverse LGBT community voices around the corner or around the world. Not like the depressing, sinister, shadowy stories of the past, this book highlights queer people living open, happy, fulfilling and successful lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBe inspired by LGBT community stories that celebrate the human spirit: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBe emboldened by the bravery of a Uruguayan author who was rejected by her immediate family even as she began a family of her own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBe inspired by the audacity to fight for justice that motivates National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendell, a Mormon who grew up in Utah.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn how two couples transcend time and distance to finally be together and how one NBA sports executive summoned the courage to come out.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscover the message of love from the first openly lesbian United Methodist Church Bishop.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn the secrets of successful OUT IBM executive based in London and the rewards of Ballroom Basix founder in Harlem.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSee how the Maori philosophy of whānau guided the MP who won marriage rights in New Zealand and how high expectations overcame disability and bullying for an acclaimed mezzo-soprano.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnow how the Armenian Genocide and family tensions impacted a professional violinist and composer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePride \u0026amp; Joy\u003c\/em\u003e is a window into the LGBTQ community for straight friends, allies, parents and families of this finally emerging marginalized group. There's hope that, in the words of Dan Savage, \"It Gets Better\" for: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe transgender choreographer and dancer who continues to break rules and enlighten audiences to the Dutch singer, songwriter and independent theater producer who breaks down stereotypes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe Russian  migr  award-winning computer scientist to the Chinese folk dancer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe founder of an award-winning smoking cessation program to the California Political Director of the Obama re-election campaign.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand, for Entrepreneurs and gay dads, ballroom dancers and Hungarian activists on neo-Nazi \"hit lists.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArchambeau, Kathleen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - From Tony Kushner to Adrienne Rich, Kathleen Archambeau has connected LGBTQ luminaries in the movement for equal rights since 1992. An award-winning nonfiction writer and journalist, Archambeau wrote a regular column profiling icons for one of the oldest queer newspapers in the country. Her first book was endorsed by Nancy Pelosi and Leslie Blodgett and featured twice in Forbes. Her essay, \"Seized,\" one of only two Lesbian essays in a collection of 21 authors that included Jane Smiley, The Other Woman edited by Victoria Zackheim was lauded by Publishers Weekly for its \"top-drawer writers\" and featured on The Today Show, People, L.A. Sunday Weekly and O magazines. A founding supporter of the LGBT wing of the SF Public Library and the Dance of America Foundation Board, VP and Co-Chair of Fundraising for one of the first mental health agencies dedicated to services for the LGBT community, Archambeau has worked tirelessly to extend equal access to all LGBTQ persons. Along with her wife, Archambeau is winner of numerous first place ribbons and 2 bronze medals in same-sex ballroom dancing at the Gay Games in Cologne and featured in The Trevor Project video It Gets Better series aimed at preventing gay youth suicide, \"Come Dance with Us,\" filmed and produced by Robert Cortlandt. Kathleen lives in the SF Bay Area with her Beloved and their Guide Dog Career Change Puppy.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack, Dustin Lance:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Academy Award, Best Original Screenplay, Milk ABC Television Miniseries Writer and Director, When We Rise Dustin Lance Black won an Academy Award in his 30s for Best Original Screenplay for the Harvey Milk biopic, Milk, starring Sean Penn. On Feb. 27, 2017, he launched the ABC Television eight-hour miniseries, When We Rise, chronicling the gay rights movement in America. The show spotlights three prominent gay activists--Roma Guy, a women's and LGBT rights activist and one of the co-founders of the Women's Building and La Casa de las Madres; Ken Jones, an African American Vietnam Veteran and LGBT activist and Cleve Jones, the originator of The Names Project, the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Variety has praised the show, saying it \"champions intersectionality...the arc of history is a case study in how movements towards justice that cut out or silence a marginalized minority are doomed to fail...it is a bottled teachable moment for queer history...\" (Sonia Saraiya, Variety, Feb. 20, 2017) A social activist for LGBTQ rights, Dustin Lance Black founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) which successfully led the federal case for marriage equality in California, putting an end to California's discriminatory Proposition 8. His 2012 play, \"8\", with an LA cast that included George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Kevin Bacon and John C. 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