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It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality Hardcover – April 7, 2015
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Editorial Reviews
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"Visionary ... Prescient ... Signorile has brilliant advice for the future." — Advocate
"Makes the case clearly and convincingly that after the high court's ruling on same-sex marriage, the lives of LGBT Americans won't change all that much ... The fight will be long, but not impossible to win. All that's needed is for the LGBT community to realize that 'it's not over.'" — Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post
"[A] call to arms ... Brutally honest and brimming with hope." — OUT
"The thrust of Signorile's urgent message is cogent and heartfelt...A cautionary, timely gay rights manifesto with teeth." — Kirkus
"The gay rights movement is wise to temper jubilation with caution. In a sober new book entitled It's Not Over, Michelangelo Signorile, a well known gay radio host and blogger, warns against what he calls 'victory blindness,' which he defines as falling prey to 'a kind of bedtime story that tells us we've reached the promised land.' Getting beyond 'mere tolerance' and winning 'full equality' is likely to remain an elusive goal, he writes." — Linda Greenhouse, New York Times
"Michelangelo Signorile knows confrontation. He's great at it. A lot of people are alive today because he is great at it. A lot more are likely to have better livesin the future because he keeps doing it ... Signorile has a message for the LGBT community: Stay confrontational; there is a backlash coming that will threaten the hard-fought gains made in recent years." — Texas Observer
"An invaluable and idiot-proofed argument." — Gawker
"Compelling in both its breadth and its frequent forays into granular detail ... Signorile harnesses the concepts of victory blindness and covering to thoughtful consideration of a host of big issues before us." — Gay City News
"An impressive polemic." — Lambda Literary
"Signorile has never been more tactical and inspiring as he is in It’s Not Over, and he knows he is not just inspiring the choir anymore." — New York Journal of Books
“Enlightening and compelling, It’s Not Over is a trenchant book founded on solid evidence that reveals the truth about the current struggle for LGBT equality. Through rich detail and powerful stories, Signorile shows why we can’t let our intensity falter, and he offers an incisive, exhilarating blueprint for the future.” — Martina Navratilova
“For 25 years, Michelangelo Signorile has been one of America's most incisive critics and influential activists in the movement for gay equality, and It’s Not Over demonstrates he is better than ever. The new book is a penetrating look at one of the great social movements of our time and the challenges that lay before it. With detailed reporting and razor-sharp analysis, Signorile exposes the dangerous triumphalism that has taken hold. He reveals the bigotry and bias still deeply embedded in the media, the political establishment, and throughout American culture. And he provides an illuminating, stirring plan of action to vanquish it.” — Glenn Greenwald, author of No Place to Hide
“This page-turner cuts through illusions and lays bare the unique and ongoing oppressions lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people face. With great compassion, Michelangelo Signorile knits all of us who support equality together as a community with a purpose and a real-world plan for achieving our goals. Read this book, please, and use it.” — Kate Bornstein, author of A Queer and Pleasant Danger
“Unflinching, uncompromising, It’s Not Over is a call to arms. Signorile describes the full breadth and scope of the LGBT struggle. Indeed, the fight for equality, and for freedom for all members of the LGBT community is not over. This landmark work by an irreplaceable writer vividly illustrates why.” — José Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker, and founder of Define American
“It’s Not Over provides an eye-opening reminder of the deep roots of hatred and prejudice as well as the critical role played by LGBT activists. While the arc of the moral universe does indeed bend toward justice, Signorile is right — we cannot let ourselves be lulled into a false sense of security that we are at the end of the journey.” — Roberta Kaplan, lead attorney, U.S. v. Windsor
“Amid great progress and celebration, Signorile strikes a cautionary tone: homophobia is alive and well today, and the fight for equality is far from won. In fact, complacency and apathy are the biggest allies of well-organized conservatives who refuse to surrender their bigotry and hate. This astute book primes us to tackle the unfinished business ahead.” — Markos Moulitsas, founder, Daily Kos
"Makes the case clearly and convincingly that after the high court's ruling on same-sex marriage, the lives of LGBT Americans won't change all that much ... The fight will be long, but not impossible to win. All that's needed is for the LGBT community to realize that 'it's not over.'" — Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post
"[A] call to arms ... Brutally honest and brimming with hope." — OUT
"The thrust of Signorile's urgent message is cogent and heartfelt...A cautionary, timely gay rights manifesto with teeth." — Kirkus
"The gay rights movement is wise to temper jubilation with caution. In a sober new book entitled It's Not Over, Michelangelo Signorile, a well known gay radio host and blogger, warns against what he calls 'victory blindness,' which he defines as falling prey to 'a kind of bedtime story that tells us we've reached the promised land.' Getting beyond 'mere tolerance' and winning 'full equality' is likely to remain an elusive goal, he writes." — Linda Greenhouse, New York Times
"Michelangelo Signorile knows confrontation. He's great at it. A lot of people are alive today because he is great at it. A lot more are likely to have better livesin the future because he keeps doing it ... Signorile has a message for the LGBT community: Stay confrontational; there is a backlash coming that will threaten the hard-fought gains made in recent years." — Texas Observer
"An invaluable and idiot-proofed argument." — Gawker
"Compelling in both its breadth and its frequent forays into granular detail ... Signorile harnesses the concepts of victory blindness and covering to thoughtful consideration of a host of big issues before us." — Gay City News
"An impressive polemic." — Lambda Literary
"Signorile has never been more tactical and inspiring as he is in It’s Not Over, and he knows he is not just inspiring the choir anymore." — New York Journal of Books
“Enlightening and compelling, It’s Not Over is a trenchant book founded on solid evidence that reveals the truth about the current struggle for LGBT equality. Through rich detail and powerful stories, Signorile shows why we can’t let our intensity falter, and he offers an incisive, exhilarating blueprint for the future.” — Martina Navratilova
“For 25 years, Michelangelo Signorile has been one of America's most incisive critics and influential activists in the movement for gay equality, and It’s Not Over demonstrates he is better than ever. The new book is a penetrating look at one of the great social movements of our time and the challenges that lay before it. With detailed reporting and razor-sharp analysis, Signorile exposes the dangerous triumphalism that has taken hold. He reveals the bigotry and bias still deeply embedded in the media, the political establishment, and throughout American culture. And he provides an illuminating, stirring plan of action to vanquish it.” — Glenn Greenwald, author of No Place to Hide
“This page-turner cuts through illusions and lays bare the unique and ongoing oppressions lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people face. With great compassion, Michelangelo Signorile knits all of us who support equality together as a community with a purpose and a real-world plan for achieving our goals. Read this book, please, and use it.” — Kate Bornstein, author of A Queer and Pleasant Danger
“Unflinching, uncompromising, It’s Not Over is a call to arms. Signorile describes the full breadth and scope of the LGBT struggle. Indeed, the fight for equality, and for freedom for all members of the LGBT community is not over. This landmark work by an irreplaceable writer vividly illustrates why.” — José Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker, and founder of Define American
“It’s Not Over provides an eye-opening reminder of the deep roots of hatred and prejudice as well as the critical role played by LGBT activists. While the arc of the moral universe does indeed bend toward justice, Signorile is right — we cannot let ourselves be lulled into a false sense of security that we are at the end of the journey.” — Roberta Kaplan, lead attorney, U.S. v. Windsor
“Amid great progress and celebration, Signorile strikes a cautionary tone: homophobia is alive and well today, and the fight for equality is far from won. In fact, complacency and apathy are the biggest allies of well-organized conservatives who refuse to surrender their bigotry and hate. This astute book primes us to tackle the unfinished business ahead.” — Markos Moulitsas, founder, Daily Kos
About the Author
MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE is the best-selling author of Queer in America. He is the host of the Sirius XM radio show The Michelangelo Signorile Show and an editor-at-large of Huffington Post Gay Voices. An award-winning journalist, Signorile has written for dozens of magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, New York Magazine, Salon, and the Village Voice.
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- Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 7, 2015)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0544381009
- ISBN-13 : 978-0544381001
- Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.09 x 9 inches
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Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2015
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I have been a fan of Signorile's since Queer in America; age has only brought him more wisdom and even better-honed argumentation skills. His exploration of "covering" is cogent and compelling and, frankly, has scared me out of my own complacency as a sixty-year old man celebrating my recent marriage to my partner of twenty-plus years. And Signorile, like the great Larry Kramer, wants us to be angry, to demand our full place at the table of equality. I hope he will in his next book explore the real difficulties that blue state progressives have in giving both energy and dollars to a battle that actually needs to be fought in very specific locations--border states with younger voters who need to be mobilized in order to change the makeup of Congress and thus change the Supreme Court where, like it or not, our rights will be ultimately secured. Even if you think you know it all, Signorile will shed light on a topic that opens your eyes (in my case sports, in which I have little interest but which affects our larger culture immensely. Bravo on this work, Mike. I salute you.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2015
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All too often, books are described as "must-read." If you are LGBT+, this one actually deserves that description. If you are at all interested in achieving full equality, there is no excuse for skipping this one. Here's what Signorile covers:
1) Victory blindness - the idea that, since we've made so many incredible gains in recent years, equal rights are inevitable and just around the corner.
2) Exmples of continuing discrimination and violence against LGBT+ (in the workplace, by the medical profession, etc.), and a challenge to the idea that the closet is a thing of the past.
3) New, more insidious and disturbing methods that people who are against equality are using to ensure that LGBT+ people do not get equal rights.
4) The problem of "covering," or trying too hard to assimilate into heteronormative culure, in order to maintain the status quo.
5) Bullying in schools and beyond, and how self-defense can give children and adults an improved sense of confidence and self-worth.
6) The "both sides of the debate" problem. (Whenever an LGBT+ issue comes up on the news, the media always trot out some evangelical extremist to present to "other side," something that you'd never see happen to other minorities.)
7) How grass roots organizing and activism is just as important now as ever, especially given that too many of the most powerful LGBT+ organizations (HRC, GLAAD, etc.) are indecisive, overly cautious, cowtowing, or altogether silent, when we need them most urgently.
8) An examination of the entrenchment of homophobia in professional sports, and how pressure from the outside is necessary to change their culture of discrimination.
9) The book concludes with examples of practical steps we must take to move beyond mere "tolerance" to full equality.
This book is just what we needed at just the right time: A guide to moving forward in the march toward full equality, with eyes wide open to the stumbling blocks our enemies, and even we ourselves, have placed in our way. If you read only one book on LGBT+ rights this year, make it this one.
1) Victory blindness - the idea that, since we've made so many incredible gains in recent years, equal rights are inevitable and just around the corner.
2) Exmples of continuing discrimination and violence against LGBT+ (in the workplace, by the medical profession, etc.), and a challenge to the idea that the closet is a thing of the past.
3) New, more insidious and disturbing methods that people who are against equality are using to ensure that LGBT+ people do not get equal rights.
4) The problem of "covering," or trying too hard to assimilate into heteronormative culure, in order to maintain the status quo.
5) Bullying in schools and beyond, and how self-defense can give children and adults an improved sense of confidence and self-worth.
6) The "both sides of the debate" problem. (Whenever an LGBT+ issue comes up on the news, the media always trot out some evangelical extremist to present to "other side," something that you'd never see happen to other minorities.)
7) How grass roots organizing and activism is just as important now as ever, especially given that too many of the most powerful LGBT+ organizations (HRC, GLAAD, etc.) are indecisive, overly cautious, cowtowing, or altogether silent, when we need them most urgently.
8) An examination of the entrenchment of homophobia in professional sports, and how pressure from the outside is necessary to change their culture of discrimination.
9) The book concludes with examples of practical steps we must take to move beyond mere "tolerance" to full equality.
This book is just what we needed at just the right time: A guide to moving forward in the march toward full equality, with eyes wide open to the stumbling blocks our enemies, and even we ourselves, have placed in our way. If you read only one book on LGBT+ rights this year, make it this one.
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... is so desperately important and Michelangelo does such a good job there should be no excuses for missing it
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2015Verified Purchase
This book is so desperately important and Michelangelo does such a good job there should be no excuses for missing it. I do some public speaking on LGBT issues, especially those of Intersex people to local colleges and this spring I spoke to a group of medical students who scared me. My city is so pro-gay and has been so pro-gay it seems like these kids think we've arrived in utopia. With all the gay-straight alliances in high schools too many blue state kids are growing up without the knowlege that they still have NO federal and precious few state protections and liberties as a class and that they have very real enemies that raise billions every year and support our condintued second class citizenship and status. If I had enough money I'd pass this book out at every dance club in the state. Sigh.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2021
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I just started reading this book to gain some knowledge of how best to be a good ally to the lgbtq community. I have a lot of friends and colleagues who are a part of the community and I don’t want to keep asking so many questions. So far I’m gaining knowledge on my own and will only go back and ask if there is something in the book I don’t understand. So far so good. It’s a helpful read.
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2020
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Although this books provides some important points it is dated. The author needs to revise or rewrite a new book that reflects the current situation of hatred in government and the real attempts to roll back gay equality
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Great review of how much further we have to go to reach equality for LGBT people in the US.
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2015Verified Purchase
As Michelangelo shows, our rights are not yet equal, and opponents of equality are regrouping and pushing back, e.g under the banner of "religious freedom". Opponents have had great success recently in Russia, Uganda, and elsewhere. Who knows what happens if someone develops a test for whether a fetus is gay or straight ... will that result in selective abortion, as already happens for gender in many parts of the world?
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Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2015
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Signorile's insights into the LGBT equality movement are spot-on as always. His coining of the term "victory blindness" and discussion of how it plays out socially and politically are a very accurate reflection of where the LGBT community is right now.
This book is an absolute must-read for anyone who cares about these issues and about the movement for LGBT civil rights.
This book is an absolute must-read for anyone who cares about these issues and about the movement for LGBT civil rights.
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... Huff Post and once again this book does not disappoint. He demonstrates enormous insight into the struggle for ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2016Verified Purchase
I follow Signorile's colume on Huff Post and once again this book does not disappoint. He demonstrates enormous insight into the struggle for equal rights and the likely efforts conservatives will use to try to block those rights. It's not time to sit back and think the struggle is won. He's right-- It's not over!
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Required reading for everyone on the planet.


