It's Not Over

With 37 states recognizing legal same-sex marriage and increased visibility of LGBT characters on television shows like Transparent and Orange Is the New Black, the gay rights movement is claiming an unprecedented victory. But the future of gay rights is far from inevitable.

Despite massive gains, Michelangelo Signorile’s It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality provides stinging evidence that age-old hatred and homophobia are still basic facts of American life. How do we hold the political, social, and media establishments accountable to discrimination? Can we get past mere tolerance and achieve a fuller acceptance?

Join New America NYC for a conversation between Michelangelo Signorile and Slate’s June Thomas on the state of LGBT rights and the effort to keep the momentum for equality moving forward.

Copies of Michelangelo Signorile's It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality will be available for purchase.

Participants:

Michelangleo Singorile
Host, The Michelangelo Signorile Show, SiriusXM Progress 127
Editor-at-Large, The Huffington Post Gay Voices
Author, It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality
@MSignorile

June Thomas
Culture Critic
Editor, Outward, Slate's LGBTQ section
@junethomas