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QUEER, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE
23 People Who Changed the World
In this groundbreaking LGBTQ history book for teens, debut author Sarah Prager combines riveting facts with a fun pop culture vibe to take the reader on an eye-opening journey through the lives of 22 influential queer figures from the Roman Empire through to the present.
World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people — and you have never heard of many of them. In Queer, There, and Everywhere, activist Sarah Prager gives voice to twenty-two people who invented and radicalized and trailblazed and whose stories did not make it into the history books. These astonishing true portraits demonstrate how rich and varied gender and sexuality have always been in every culture, in every millennium, on every continent.
Our subjects include people the reader will recognize but did not realize were queer AND queer people readers have never heard of but who made huge contributions to world history. From long-ago heroes like the gender-ambiguous Queen of Sweden and a transgender soldier who risked death fighting in the Civil War, to modern figures like the transgender tennis player who won a court case to play as a woman and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who had a relationship with a woman during her marriage to FDR, this book proves that queer people have not only always existed: they have thrived.
Sarah Prager is an activist, public speaker, and writer. She is the founder and director of Quist, a free mobile app that brings queer history to the world in an interesting and interactive way. She has written about LGBTQ history for the Huffington Post, the Advocate, the It Gets Better Project's blog, and QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. She has also spoken at major venues, including the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, the offices of Twitter and Microsoft; and more than a dozen universities in four countries, including Harvard Business School, the University of Manchester, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Our subjects include people the reader will recognize but did not realize were queer AND queer people readers have never heard of but who made huge contributions to world history. From long-ago heroes like the gender-ambiguous Queen of Sweden and a transgender soldier who risked death fighting in the Civil War, to modern figures like the transgender tennis player who won a court case to play as a woman and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who had a relationship with a woman during her marriage to FDR, this book proves that queer people have not only always existed: they have thrived.
Sarah Prager is an activist, public speaker, and writer. She is the founder and director of Quist, a free mobile app that brings queer history to the world in an interesting and interactive way. She has written about LGBTQ history for the Huffington Post, the Advocate, the It Gets Better Project's blog, and QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. She has also spoken at major venues, including the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, the offices of Twitter and Microsoft; and more than a dozen universities in four countries, including Harvard Business School, the University of Manchester, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Published 2017-04-01 by HarperCollins |