The Gay Agenda

A Modern Queer History & Handbook

By: Ashley Molesso, Chessie Needham

Narrated by: Ron Butler

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 Chessie Needham, founders of the popular Brooklyn 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.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

not just a book but a history lesson

love learning more about queer history love that there is a PDF that goes with the book

the narrator

the narrator putting on a slightly queer affectation every once in a while was hilarious and made listening super enjoyable.
nice, condense history of the LGBTQ+ community, easy listen

A Bit Simplistic

Understandably, this is not an in depth history, it still feels like it's missing, A LOT. Also, I've heard much of this history before. I especially didn't like that the authors describe bisexuality in the binary. We are not. I'm bisexual and I like people of my own and other genders, not just men and women. It's a bit insulting.