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A review by barefootmegz
Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage And Inspire by Tea Uglow
4.0
The latest instalment in the recent influx of coffee-table books featuring prominent, historically important individuals. Great LGBTQ+ Speeches contains speeches of- well, of great LGBTQ+ persons (and their allies). By compiling and editing this collection, Tea Uglow fills the massive void of LGBTQ+ history that so much of the world has missed out on.
I consider myself a fairly well-informed person about slightly-more-than-basic queer history, but this collection was engaging and introduced me to many new figures I had never heard of. Much effort has been made to include persons from non-Western countries.
The illustrations are delightfully camp, and I imagine the hardcopy, hardcover, full-colour product must be a beautiful book to behold.
Unfortunately, people who give important speeches, are sometimes a bit long-winded, meaning that many of the entries in this collection are excerpted from the original speeches. In several cases, the missing information between excerpts, causes the speeches to lose some of their meaning.
What sets this apart from similar collections, is that Uglow uses more than biographic facts for the write-ups of her orators: she also elaborates on the impact of their lives on our present day, and provides insights into what is to come.
Basically, this is a “Rebel Girls” for queer people, and I recommend looking into it for your next coffee-table splurge.
I received an eARC of this collection via Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group, in exchange for an honest review.
I consider myself a fairly well-informed person about slightly-more-than-basic queer history, but this collection was engaging and introduced me to many new figures I had never heard of. Much effort has been made to include persons from non-Western countries.
The illustrations are delightfully camp, and I imagine the hardcopy, hardcover, full-colour product must be a beautiful book to behold.
Unfortunately, people who give important speeches, are sometimes a bit long-winded, meaning that many of the entries in this collection are excerpted from the original speeches. In several cases, the missing information between excerpts, causes the speeches to lose some of their meaning.
What sets this apart from similar collections, is that Uglow uses more than biographic facts for the write-ups of her orators: she also elaborates on the impact of their lives on our present day, and provides insights into what is to come.
Basically, this is a “Rebel Girls” for queer people, and I recommend looking into it for your next coffee-table splurge.
I received an eARC of this collection via Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group, in exchange for an honest review.