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The People's Victory: Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality Kindle Edition
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In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miraculous political victories in modern American history. Opponents attacked the issue of marriage equality as amoral and a direct threat to families. Allies warned that it was a generation away from being practicable and a selfish drain of precious political capital.
A stirring oral history told by those who almost inexplicably found themselves fighting on the front lines,The People's Victory recounts the successes – and the setbacks – that only served to strengthen everyone’s resolve to resist, fight, and bring equal marriage rights to an entire nation. Through it all, these love warriors found their voice and home in Marriage Equality USA, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots organization of its kind. While high profile books, articles and documentaries have covered the judicial and legislative machinations, this book puts a human face on the people who made the everyday personal sacrifices to keep the movement alive.
The People’s Victory shares deeply moving personal testimonies of over sixty people, from Marvin Burrows, who was forced out of his home and lost many treasured possessions after losing his lost his partner of fifty years; to Kate Burns, who risked arrest for the first time when she stood up for her relationship; to Mike Goettemoeller, who pushed his mother in a wheelchair with Marriage Equality USA to fulfill her dream of marching in a Pride parade.
Edie Windsor, the triumphant lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case United States vs. Windsor recounts shouting down a major LGBTQ organization with “I’m 77 years old and I can’t wait!!” when they attempted to belittle marriage as a critical issue. Writer and producer Del Shores shares the touching moment his young teenage daughter used tears and laughter to console him after the passage of Proposition 8 in California dealt a blow to the cause.
The People’s Victory is an inspirational roadmap for anyone who has felt passionately about an issue, but has questioned whether one person’s contribution can make a difference. These candid accounts once again prove that every movement for important social change must be built on the acts of everyday. In fact, that is the only way the people have ever been victorious.
In his introduction, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom writes: “I hope these stories inspire you to resist, to fight, to win and in the end write the next stories in our continuing push for a more just and perfect union.”
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMarriage Equality USA
- Publication date15 August 2017
- File size67705 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B073B1JWJP
- Publisher : Marriage Equality USA (15 August 2017)
- Language : English
- File size : 67705 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 230 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #15,854 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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DAVINA KOTULSKI, PH.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, sought-after speaker, and award-winning author with a thriving private therapy practice in Los Angeles, California, and an international life coaching practice. She facilitates workshops and webinars on past-life regression, mysticism, meditation, spiritual growth, self-empowerment, and authentic living.
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After receiving her doctorate in clinical psychology in 1996, Dr. Davina worked for over thirteen years as a psychologist in a federal prison working with inmates to help them heal addictions and trauma and become empowered productive members of society.
Dr. Davina received notable awards for her LGBTQ civil rights advocacy, including the Saints Alive Award from the Metropolitan Community Church, the Michael Switzer Leadership Award, and Grand Marshal, San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade. As a respected leader in the LGBT equality movement, Dr. Davina Kotulski has appeared in dozens of documentary films, been a guest on television (notably on CNN) and on National Public Radio and the talk shows of numerous other radio stations, and has been featured in print publications, like Newsweek, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, L.A. Times, Oregonian, to name a few.
Dr. Davina has been interviewed on Good Morning La La Land, Wake Up to the Sound of Transformation with Michael Bernard Beckwith, and numerous radio shows, podcasts, and online summits. She was a guest therapist on the show Please Understand Me produced by Sarah Silverman. In 2020, Dr. Davina’s past life regression work was featured on the Sky Life Channel and the India-based web-show OK-tested.
Dr. Davina’s previous books include It’s Never Too Late to Be Your Self, Why You Should Give a Damn about Gay Marriage, Love Warriors: The Rise of the Marriage Equality Movement and Why It Will Prevail, and the novel Behind Barbed Eyes.
Behind Barbed Eyes was a Nautilus Gold Award winner in 2016 and a 2019 Reader’s Favorite Finalist in Fiction Audiobooks.
It’s Never Too Late to Be Your Self won the 2018 Nautilus Silver Award in the category of Inner Prosperity and Right Livelihood, was a 2019 International Book Awards Finalist in the category of self-help, received a five-Star Favorite Reader’s Choice Award in 2019, and was a Finalist in the 2020 Next Generation Independent Book Awards in the Motivational Self-Help category. Her written work has been featured in periodicals, anthologies, online magazines, and blogs.
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