This was very informative. It was great to hear from people all around the world in the LGBTQIA+ Community..

A lovely and informative book to dip in and out of, which teaches a lot about LGBT+ history in an accessible and engaging way.

Great speeches that deserve to be known. There is still a lot of work to get done. Thankfully, we have improved quite a lot since some of the speeches. But we have to keep fighting to improve and not return to the dark times.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for this ARC. This book was a colorful, and vibrant read that consisted of excerpts of speeches from a variety and diverse groups of LGBTQ+ individuals across a range of times. I really enjoyed reading this and I feel like this was a great book to use as a jumping-off point to learn more about queer history.

Thank you to NetGalley, Tea Uglow, and Quarto White Lion Publishing for an advance reader's copy in exchange for an honest review.

This anthology contains a wide and diverse selection speeches by LGBTQ figures, some well-known, others more mariginalised in history. The speeches contained are impactful and important. Each speech was preceded by a short, simple introduction, which makes this book a great introductory reference point for understanding queer voices, and the context behind each speech. Additionally, the book contains a long section at the end of further important LGBTQ figures whose speeches were not included in the anthology, which is a very useful reference point for further research.

It is unfortunate that each speech featured was only a short extract, as I felt that some of them would benefit from containing longer extracts, to fully understand the context and weight of their words. While this book is a great starting point, it would have been nice to get a little more information about each speech.

The formatting on Netgalley Shelf was difficult to read, and images were compressed oddly. I am sure reading this book physically would provide a better experience.

** Thanks so much to NetGalley, Tea Uglow, and White Lion Publishing for this ARC! Great LGBTQ + Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage and Inspire is out now! **

I really enjoyed this collection of speeches about LGBTQ rights. Ranging over decades and countries, the speeches were by LGBTQ folks and our allies. I am a woman who will be marrying a same-sex partner in less than two weeks (!!) and it was fascinating and moving to reflect on how far we have come, and at what cost.

Highly recommended :)

I’m so grateful that I got to read this text. I really enjoyed this book and I’m looking forward to making some videos for my TIkTok and other social media channels to recommend it to my friends and followers. It was an excellent read! 5/5 stars. I’m going to write a longer and more detailed review on my Goodreads and TikTok and I will link back once I’ve posted.

A very inspirational book that provides details about people that were very vocal and important in the movement of LGBTQIA+ rights. I enjoyed the inclusion of speeches from the 1800s to current as this helped me to understand that the fight is still occurring and how important it is to understand more about this topic to help others. I also enjoyed the images and bright colours used throughout.

I like the style of this book and how it presents us so many people.
Unfortunately I found it a bit boring after some time, but that's probably on me because I'm not used to read nonfiction.

This is a wonderful compilation of speeches by LGBTQIA folks an allies. The speeches included are by people from all over the world with different backgrounds and identities and it makes a beautiful and moving collection. Also, I received an e-arc of this book BUT the graphics and photos are incredible. I cannot wait to see a physical copy!

I really enjoyed this. I loved the artwork, and the content, and how it highlights everything the queer community has to go through. The only critique I have is that I wanted more variety. I’m looking forward to a part two, though!

I received an advanced reader copy of Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage And Inspire by Tea Uglow in exchange for an honest review.

As a self-proclaimed queer and drag historian, I love any opportunity to learn about queer history. When I saw Great LGBTQ+ Speeches on NetGalley two thoughts went through my mind: 1) that cover is spectacular, one that I would love to have on my shelves, and 2) this is exactly the kind of book I would love to read.

Great LGBTQ+ Speeches is a collection of abridged speeches on queer subjects. Each speech is preceded by a short bio of the speaker, as well as a gorgeous stylized photo. I loved the creative ways these greyscale photographs were filled with bursts of color. The formatting of this book is magnificent. It had me as interested in it visually as in its content.

I was thrilled to see that my favorite queer speech in history, Sylvia Rivera’s “Y’all Better Quiet Down,” was featured in this collection. It also had a powerful speech by gay Black poet Essex Hemphill, critiquing the white gay community’s fetishization of the gay Black man. Reading that speech motivated me to look up more of his work. Another quote I loved was from Vito Russo, who said, “living with AIDS is like living through a war which is happening only for those people who happen to be in the trenches.” The majority of figures and speeches in this collection were new to me, so I learned quite a lot from it!

One thing that felt a little strange to me was the presence of non-queer allies like Obama and Hilary being included in this collection. I recognize that the speeches they gave were momentous for mainstream discourse around queer people, but they themselves are not part of the community. Last few pages listed mini biographies of other historic queer figures who didn’t receive a full spread in the book. I really appreciated this section, but I also think a handful of these icons could have been featured in place of ally speeches.

Tea Uglow’s Great LGBTQ+ Speeches is an excellent, informative, and beautiful book, and one I would definitely recommend. Thank you NetGalley, Quarto Publishing Group, and White Lion Publishing for the advanced reader copy.

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: instead, she 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.

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It serves as an excellent primer and source for research and there are texts here that will be very helpful in studying rhetoric with students. An excellent selection from a number of perspectives. I will be purchasing a copy of this book.

Thank you to NetGalley, Tea Uglow and the publisher for providing me with an E-Arc in exchange for an honest review.

A great educational introduction to many important LGBTQIA+ figures dating back from the 1800s to the present day.

Important and wonderful but only excerpts, and that meant they lacked a certain punch. This is more of a tour of a book, a little whirling piece that one could casually flip through--I would love to see another edition without the color and coffee-table feel (I don't actually know what this book looks like as I read an electronic version) so I can read the wholeness of these speeches.

In contrast though, I could see this playing an important role as a book for browsing in my classroom or for my eleven-year-old (who is gender fluid and looking for pieces to fill their sense of community). More of this, please. More, more, more. (Indeed, I think I'll have to put this under the holiday tree for my oldest--I want to flip through it in person too.)

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance reader's copy in exchange for an honest review, and thank you Tea Uglow for doing this work.

Thank you for the advanced copy. Will be purchasing a copy of this without a doubt.

Like many, I wish I had access to this when I was in my teens and even early 20s, incredibly powerful and a must read for any LGBTQ+ and ally, I have read some of these over and over and will no doubt do so over the coming years.

I adore books like this - they are one of my favourite types of non fiction. Such inspirational words in every speech, and a fantastic introduction to LGBTQIA+ history.

What. A. Book.

To read such inspiring, emotional and heart-driven speeches from all around the world was heartwarming and inspirational, in the least. From Sylvia Rivera's 'Y'All Better Quiet Down' (which I had to listen and watch in full on YouTube after reading on the book), to Sir Ian McKellen, or Harvey Milk and Arkham Parsi, every single one of these spoken and written words opened my heart, my eyes and my mind to a world I could not see before.

Tea Uglow did such an amazing work, gathering these speeches and sharing them with the world. I did not know of most of these, and my mind is still mad at that ignorance, but this book and its messages helped me understand struggles I did not know existed, and encouraged me to delve deeper into the history of my community.

Forever grateful for such an extraordinary reading experience. Thank you Tea Uglow, and thank you Quarto Publishing Group for allowing me to read this.

Signing off,
B.

An introduction to LGBTQ+ history, as a book I imagine that it is beautiful the arc was tricky to read at times, many of the speeches have been edited to fit the allocated page or half page in some instances. I really liked that the book went back in time to remind us that people were campaigning for LGBT rights even in the 19th century. The book also includes people campaigning in various parts of the world which I also appreciated. This book would make a lovely primer into important people and times in LGBT history and includes a list of important figures from today at the back on the book. I would recommend buying the book, rather than the e-version.

With thanks to Netgalley and to the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.