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Speak Its Name! Quotations by and about Gay Men and Women

Beschreibung

A collection of quotations by and about gay people is a celebration of the advances in LGBT rights in the UK over the last half-century and a demonstration of the battle against oppression and prejudice that led to them.

Autor

Christopher Tinker is the Managing Editor at the National Portrait Gallery, London, where he has edited Vogue 100: A Century of Style (2016), David Bailey's Stardust (2014) and Lucian Freud Portraits (2012). Before joining the Gallery he spent twelve years at BBC Books, where he edited Jeremy Paxman's The Victorians (2009), Jonathan Dimbleby's Russia (2008) and commissioned The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn (2008), a collection of early colour photographs. Simon Callow is an actor, director and writer. He has appeared in many popular films, including Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Maurice (1987), A Room with a View (1985) and Amadeus (1984). His stage work includes the one-man plays The Mystery of Charles Dickens (2012), Being Shakespeare (2011) and The Importance of Being Oscar (1997). His books include a biographical trilogy on Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde and His Circle (2013), Charles Dickens and the Theatre of the World (2012), My Life in Pieces, Charles Laughton (1987) and Being an Actor (1984).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: National Portrait Gallery Publications
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 910g
• ISBN-13: 9781855147256
• ISBN-10: 1855147254
• Artikelnr.: 45112075