The Gay Agenda

By Chessie Needham, Ashley Molesso, Chess Needham

Book Overview

A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community's development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring 100 full-color illustrations.

Compiled and designed by queer power couple and illustrators extraordinaire, Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham, founders of the popular stationery company Ash + Chess, The Gay Agenda is an inviting and entertaining guide that pays tribute to the LGBTQ+ community. Filled with engaging descriptions, interesting facts, helpful features--such as historical queer icons and events and LGBTQ+ acronym definitions--this fabulous compendium illuminates the transformation of the community, highlighting its struggles, achievements, landmarks, and contributions. It also salutes iconic members of the LGBTQ+ community--the celebrities, politicians, entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens who have made a notable impact on gay life and society itself.

The Gay Agenda is a nostalgic look back for older generations, an archive for younger people, and a helpful introduction for those interested in learning more about the community and its contributions. From James Baldwin and Emma Goldman to Marsha P. Johnson and Jodie Foster; the Pink Triangle and the Rainbow Flag to Stonewall and the AIDS crisis; Matthew Shepard and Pulse Nightclub to Sodomy Laws and Obergefell; Drag and Transitioning to The L Word and The Kinsey Scale, Freddie Mercury and Ellen Degeneres to Laverne Cox and David Bowie, this magnificent digest is a keepsake honoring all LGBTQ+, and the ongoing fight to gain--and maintain--equality for all.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006294455X
• ISBN13: 9780062944559
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Morrow Gift
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

The best history book I have found

If you are just starting your journey into lgbt history, GET THIS BOOK. I absolutely love the illustrations, it’s so colorful. And it explains everything in such an amazing way, like how we don’t have much history predating the 20th century. I am just beginning my journey into learning my history as a lesbian, and I am so glad I purchased this book. It’s also very thorough while still be a smaller book. I hope one day they can make another edition with more stories.