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    It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality
    It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality
    It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality
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    It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality

    Written by Michelangelo Signorile

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

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    Marriage equality has surged across the country. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major-league sports. But as longtime advocate Michelangelo Signorile argues in his most provocative book yet, the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever. Puncturing the illusion that victory is now inevitable, Signorile marshals stinging evidence that an age-old hatred, homophobia, is still a basic fact of American life. He exposes the bigotry of the brewing religious conservative backlash against LGBT rights and challenges the complacency and hypocrisy of supposed allies in Washington, the media, and Hollywood.

    Not just a wake-up call, It's Not Over is a battle plan for the fights to come in the march toward equality. Signorile tells the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans who have refused to be merely tolerated and are demanding full acceptance. And he documents signs of hope in schools and communities that are finding new ways to combat ignorance, bullying, and fear. Urgent and empowering, It's Not Over is a necessary book from one of our most electrifying voices.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 19, 2015
    ISBN9781494583132

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    • 4/5
      Well written with lots of important statistics and anecdotal accounts of homophobia and examples of how it has been dealt with. The major theme of the book is that even though there have been great victories in LGBT rights, we cannot rest on our laurels. Even though many rights have been gained, such as the right to same sex marriage, the culture is still largely homophobic, either explicitly or implicitly. He also introduces the concept of "covering," where LGBT individuals will just let various amounts of prejudiced behavior pass without confronting it, or they will behave in ways that sort of mute their LGBT status to reduce the amount of homophobic behavior they might experience. Signorile says that if we want true and lasting progress on LGBT rights, covering needs to stop. LGBT people need to live openly as LGBT and not accept homophobic behavior from others. It needs to be confronted regularly. Although I agree with the author on many of the things in this book, sometimes I think he might be coming on a bit too strongly.