Pride & Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes (LGBT History, Gift for Teen, Role Models, for Readers of We Make It Better) - Softcover

Archambeau, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1633535509 ISBN 13: 9781633535503

Publisher: Mango, 2017

Synopsis

Stories of success, happiness and hope from the LGBT community

Stories that comprise the best of LGBT history: Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroestells 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.

Discover LGBT community stories that will stir you and reveal:

• why Tony Kushner quit cello and how Colm Toibin found his voice.
• why Emma Donoghue calls her experience a fluke and the best advice Bill T. Jones got was from his mother.
• how being an inaugural poet changed Richard Blanco’s life and how Ugandan activist “LongJones” escaped death threats and gained asylum.

Award-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.

Be inspired by LGBT community stories that celebrate the human spirit:

• Be emboldened by the bravery of a Uruguayan author who was rejected by her immediate family even as she began a family of her own.
• Be 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.
• Learn how two couples transcend time and distance to finally be together and how one NBA sports executive summoned the courage to come out.
• Discover the message of love from the first openly lesbian United Methodist Church Bishop.
• Learn the secrets of successful OUT IBM executive based in London and the rewards of Ballroom Basix founder in Harlem.
• See 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.
• Know how the Armenian Genocide and family tensions impacted a professional violinist and composer.

Pride & Joy 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:

• the 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.
• the Russian émigré award-winning computer scientist to the Chinese folk dancer.
• the founder of an award-winning smoking cessation program to the California Political Director of the Obama re-election campaign.
• and, for Entrepreneurs and gay dads, ballroom dancers and Hungarian activists on neo-Nazi “hit lists.”

About this title

From the Author:

“As a producer and literary rep, I have long been committed to inclusion and diversity regarding gender, race, and sexual orientation. My co-authored book, Dating Your Character, focuses on helping writers create multi-dimensional, non-stereotypical characters as Kathleen has shown in real-life stories in this extraordinary book. I’m delighted to endorse Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes, as it spotlights queer luminaries living open, fulfilling, happy and successful lives―a departure from many LGBTQ portrayals.”
Marilyn R. Atlas

Sundance Film Festival Award-Winning Co-Producer,

Real Women Have Curves (HBO)

Co-Author of Dating Your Character (Stairway Press, 2016)
“Kathleen Archambeau wrote a regular column of inspiring profiles for one of the longest-running and largest LGBTQ newspapers in the country, the San Francisco Bay Times. We’re proud to have been her first public forum. Her book, Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes, tells the in-depth stories of 30 global queer icons and is sure to embolden the next generation and give hope to those still struggling with their sexual and gender identity.”
Betty Sullivan, PhD

Publisher, San Francisco Bay Times (Founded in 1978)

First LGBT newspaper in California and one of the first in the world
“Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes not only highlights the contributions of LGBT citizens to world culture, but shows young queer students that being openly gay can bring you happiness, fulfillment and success. The impact it will have on our next generation, as well as on all those who care about social justice, will be significant.”
Mark Leno

First Openly Gay Man Elected to the California State Senate

Author, SB48, the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (F.A.I.R.) Education Act (2011):

(Ensures LGBT people and persons with disabilities be integrated into

Education textbooks and social studies curricula in California public schools)

California State Senator (2008-2016)

California State Assembly (2002-2008)

About the Author:

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.

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. Reilly was broadcast live and has been staged in eight countries and fifty states. Black is an honors graduate of UCLA’s School of Film and Television and has taught in the MFA Screenwriting program at UCLA. Dustin Lance Black is engaged to British Olympic diver Tom Daley and lives in London

About this edition

• Publisher: Mango
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1633535509
• ISBN 13: 9781633535503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322