The Campaign Within: A Mayor's Private Journey to Public Leadership
Autor Neil Giulianoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 iul 2016
In The Campaign Within, Neil Giuliano shares in candid and revealing detail his long private journey from growing up a shy, self-doubting kid with a secret in an Italian-American Catholic family to making history as the first openly gay mayor of a U.S. city over 150,000 in population.
In addition to his deeply personal story, Neil takes us behind the scenes of local and national politics, including his elections and involvement with Senator John McCain’s 2000 presidential primary campaign, the anti-gay mayoral recall vote that threatened to oust him from office, Co-Chairing a 2004 Presidential Debate, his decision to leave the Republican Party as it tilted further right, becoming a Democrat, and his considering a return to public office.
Neil also chronicles his national social justice work and celebrity-filled tenure as president of the Gay &Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and Executive Producer of the GLAAD Media Awards on the Bravo TV network with behind the scenes stories that surprise and inspire.
Brave and compelling, The Campaign Within demonstrates that the greatest campaigns are not the ones taking place within the public realms of electoral politics but the personal ones inside each and every one of us.
Currently CEO at San Francisco AIDS Foundation and a leadership consultant, speaker and coach, Giuliano resides in Tempe and San Francisco.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781936833269
ISBN-10: 1936833263
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 146 x 226 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Riverdale Avenue Books
ISBN-10: 1936833263
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 146 x 226 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Riverdale Avenue Books
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Cuprins
NARRATIVE CHAPTER OUTLINE
Chapter One
As president of GLAAD, Neil meets with Isaiah Washington, star of Grey’s Anatomy embroiled in a public controversy over the alleged use of a gay slur. Neil reflects on his own long journey to that meeting: once terrified of being exposed as a gay man while mayor of Tempe, now one of the most visible gay activists in the country. He shares never-reported detail about confronting Washington, media appearances, negotiating public statements, how fighting defamation influences cultural change, how Americans views have evolved, and how much work still needs to be done in the area of LGBT rights.
Chapter Two
Neil’s worst fears about exposure are about to be realized as a citizen makes veiled remarks about a city council member’s sexuality at a televised public meeting. Neil’s closet door starts to unhinge and his political world approaches the unknown. As he drives home, the stressful reality of it all forces him to pull over and throw up in a gas station restroom. While he knew this day would eventually come, he is no less panic-stricken, and is relieved to be leaving town for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics on a red eye, where he will be with openly gay friends.
Chapter Three
Neil watches the 1976 Olympics on TV with a high school friend who has come out as gay and takes him to a gay bar for the first time that same evening. For Neil it is a foray into a different world; the Limelight Bar in NYC was the height of gay culture in 1976. He is both excited by the social comfort, and afraid of what it means for his future. He attends Arizona State University, taking student leadership positions as a way to fill a social void. Feeling alone and without what he thinks is an accepted future, he flirts with suicide, followed by a personal acknowledgment that he in fact is gay, just like the activists on campus he ignores. He shares movingly about attending the 1991 funeral of that friend who took him to the Limelight. Neil’s a city councilman; his friend had been a proud activist, now dead of AIDS. Shame and desire to make a difference force Neil to move toward accepting his own destiny.
Chapter Four
Neil details his attraction to boys as a youth, and knows he is not like his friends, that he is different, but he assumes the feelings and thoughts will go away. He fills in details of his grandparents’ arrivals in America and his upbringing in a traditional Roman Catholic Italian-American home. A love of politics is born as his father runs for mayor and instills in Neil a life-long interest in public service. He shares a poignant memory of his childhood: meeting a local Rabbi outside of his father’s office, who touches his head and says, “You’re different, you’re a very special boy.”
Chapter Five
As he navigates through high school, Neil tries and fails to date girls. His date to the senior prom cancels a few days beforehand; he has friends, but is mostly on the periphery of it all. He tries and fails to win student government positions. Only average at sports, he finds a place to belong with Key Club and wins his first elected office: New Jersey Key Club district treasurer. As his family abruptly moves to Arizona, Neil stays in New Jersey to complete high school before joining his family in the desert to start college at ASU.
Chapter Six
At the age of fifty, Neil’s father dies of a heart attack, two months after he attends the convention where Neil steps down as international president of a service and leadership organization, but before any conversation about his sexuality. He talks about his family following his father’s death and how he is not particularly close with them, which is not uncommon for gay men who are not out to their families. Neil becomes drawn to the church, shares about his once desire to become a priest as an escape route, and spends a summer as a youth minister in CO. He drives home drunk from a gay bar in Denver to Colorado Springs, flirting with tragedy but somehow avoiding it. Upon return to Arizona, he decides to share his house with five very Catholic men in an effort to straighten out his life, pun intended. It doesn’t work and drama ensues when he comes out to one of the men.
Chapter Seven
Neil gets elected student body president at ASU, earns his masters degree in 1983 and accepts his first of many jobs at the university as program coordinator of student leadership. Not out at all, Neil has a fling with an ASU Track star, then a soldier he meets at a friend’s wedding, but he remains unable and afraid to live openly as a gay man. He accepts a job as a live in advisor to his fraternity, and even has a summer long romance while living there, and mentors many of the members in their own campus involvement. When a popular fraternity brother is killed in a car accident, Neil coordinates his memorial service for 1000 students and believes he sees his Father speaking to him in a dream. In an attempt to ignore his true orientation and be like all his friends, he dates a local businesswoman everyone feels is perfect for his potential political future. But he just can’t become that person and ends the relationship. Neil moves out of the fraternity house, and withdraws, focusing on nothing but his work.
Chapter Eight
An all-work focus for several years finds Neil significantly involved with the community and local leaders encourage him to run for city council. He does and is elected city councilman in 1990 for a four-year term. His new job at ASU takes him frequently to Washington, D.C. where Neil ventures out and befriends some gay men, one who is a high profile gay journalist. Though still closeted, he develops an entire set of friends in the gay community in DC. In 1993, now the vice-mayor, Neil goes to dinner with Chip Walgren, an openly gay staff member of US Senator Dennis DeConcini (D, AZ), an activity which Neil knows will bridge his personal and political worlds and open his closet door in ways that are irreversible.
Chapter Nine
With the current mayor retiring, Neil decides to run for the office against two more seasoned candidates, assuming a valiant losing effort would bring him the opportunity for a more open life out of politics. Threatening letters and anonymous voicemails about his “lifestyle” come forth and Neil contemplates withdrawing from the race to avoid being outed. But he finds the courage to stay in the race, decides he won’t lie if confronted with the truth, but does not address rumors about his personal life. Neil campaigns from the closet and wins the general election with 54% of the vote. After the election, Neil learns that phones in his campaign office may have been bugged, and worse, his thought of losing with honor and moving on in life is not to be. He has a higher duty than himself now; a personal life will have to wait, again.
Chapter Ten
Neil brings the reader back to the close of
Chapter One
As president of GLAAD, Neil meets with Isaiah Washington, star of Grey’s Anatomy embroiled in a public controversy over the alleged use of a gay slur. Neil reflects on his own long journey to that meeting: once terrified of being exposed as a gay man while mayor of Tempe, now one of the most visible gay activists in the country. He shares never-reported detail about confronting Washington, media appearances, negotiating public statements, how fighting defamation influences cultural change, how Americans views have evolved, and how much work still needs to be done in the area of LGBT rights.
Chapter Two
Neil’s worst fears about exposure are about to be realized as a citizen makes veiled remarks about a city council member’s sexuality at a televised public meeting. Neil’s closet door starts to unhinge and his political world approaches the unknown. As he drives home, the stressful reality of it all forces him to pull over and throw up in a gas station restroom. While he knew this day would eventually come, he is no less panic-stricken, and is relieved to be leaving town for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics on a red eye, where he will be with openly gay friends.
Chapter Three
Neil watches the 1976 Olympics on TV with a high school friend who has come out as gay and takes him to a gay bar for the first time that same evening. For Neil it is a foray into a different world; the Limelight Bar in NYC was the height of gay culture in 1976. He is both excited by the social comfort, and afraid of what it means for his future. He attends Arizona State University, taking student leadership positions as a way to fill a social void. Feeling alone and without what he thinks is an accepted future, he flirts with suicide, followed by a personal acknowledgment that he in fact is gay, just like the activists on campus he ignores. He shares movingly about attending the 1991 funeral of that friend who took him to the Limelight. Neil’s a city councilman; his friend had been a proud activist, now dead of AIDS. Shame and desire to make a difference force Neil to move toward accepting his own destiny.
Chapter Four
Neil details his attraction to boys as a youth, and knows he is not like his friends, that he is different, but he assumes the feelings and thoughts will go away. He fills in details of his grandparents’ arrivals in America and his upbringing in a traditional Roman Catholic Italian-American home. A love of politics is born as his father runs for mayor and instills in Neil a life-long interest in public service. He shares a poignant memory of his childhood: meeting a local Rabbi outside of his father’s office, who touches his head and says, “You’re different, you’re a very special boy.”
Chapter Five
As he navigates through high school, Neil tries and fails to date girls. His date to the senior prom cancels a few days beforehand; he has friends, but is mostly on the periphery of it all. He tries and fails to win student government positions. Only average at sports, he finds a place to belong with Key Club and wins his first elected office: New Jersey Key Club district treasurer. As his family abruptly moves to Arizona, Neil stays in New Jersey to complete high school before joining his family in the desert to start college at ASU.
Chapter Six
At the age of fifty, Neil’s father dies of a heart attack, two months after he attends the convention where Neil steps down as international president of a service and leadership organization, but before any conversation about his sexuality. He talks about his family following his father’s death and how he is not particularly close with them, which is not uncommon for gay men who are not out to their families. Neil becomes drawn to the church, shares about his once desire to become a priest as an escape route, and spends a summer as a youth minister in CO. He drives home drunk from a gay bar in Denver to Colorado Springs, flirting with tragedy but somehow avoiding it. Upon return to Arizona, he decides to share his house with five very Catholic men in an effort to straighten out his life, pun intended. It doesn’t work and drama ensues when he comes out to one of the men.
Chapter Seven
Neil gets elected student body president at ASU, earns his masters degree in 1983 and accepts his first of many jobs at the university as program coordinator of student leadership. Not out at all, Neil has a fling with an ASU Track star, then a soldier he meets at a friend’s wedding, but he remains unable and afraid to live openly as a gay man. He accepts a job as a live in advisor to his fraternity, and even has a summer long romance while living there, and mentors many of the members in their own campus involvement. When a popular fraternity brother is killed in a car accident, Neil coordinates his memorial service for 1000 students and believes he sees his Father speaking to him in a dream. In an attempt to ignore his true orientation and be like all his friends, he dates a local businesswoman everyone feels is perfect for his potential political future. But he just can’t become that person and ends the relationship. Neil moves out of the fraternity house, and withdraws, focusing on nothing but his work.
Chapter Eight
An all-work focus for several years finds Neil significantly involved with the community and local leaders encourage him to run for city council. He does and is elected city councilman in 1990 for a four-year term. His new job at ASU takes him frequently to Washington, D.C. where Neil ventures out and befriends some gay men, one who is a high profile gay journalist. Though still closeted, he develops an entire set of friends in the gay community in DC. In 1993, now the vice-mayor, Neil goes to dinner with Chip Walgren, an openly gay staff member of US Senator Dennis DeConcini (D, AZ), an activity which Neil knows will bridge his personal and political worlds and open his closet door in ways that are irreversible.
Chapter Nine
With the current mayor retiring, Neil decides to run for the office against two more seasoned candidates, assuming a valiant losing effort would bring him the opportunity for a more open life out of politics. Threatening letters and anonymous voicemails about his “lifestyle” come forth and Neil contemplates withdrawing from the race to avoid being outed. But he finds the courage to stay in the race, decides he won’t lie if confronted with the truth, but does not address rumors about his personal life. Neil campaigns from the closet and wins the general election with 54% of the vote. After the election, Neil learns that phones in his campaign office may have been bugged, and worse, his thought of losing with honor and moving on in life is not to be. He has a higher duty than himself now; a personal life will have to wait, again.
Chapter Ten
Neil brings the reader back to the close of
Recenzii
"Neil Giuliano, true renaissance man, has written one of the most extraordinary books on being an out mayor of a major American City. Giuliano leaves no stone unturned in his quest to leave a written message to future generations. He has dedicated his life to public service and had performed another one with the honesty in this book. Treat yourself to a memorable, exiting and important read."
-- David Mixner
"Neil is an American gay rights hero. His personal story, beautifully told in his new memoir, is an often dramatic tale about the darkness and fear of the closet and the light and freedom of coming out -- to family, friends, voters and most of all to yourself. It is a story about politics, media, gay rights, and most of all about integrity. The Campaign Within is a landslide winner."
--Richard Socarides, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor, The White House, Administration of President Bill Clinton.
"Neil Giuliano takes his reader by the hand and by the heart in The Campaign Within, a gritty exploration of the American Dream– deeply entrenched in self-doubt, aspiration and faith. Neil does the difficult work; tackling mistakes with sincere regret and with deep compassion for those who caused him harm. His skillful and on-point storytelling allows one to relax and trust in his journey – and to ultimately throw two fists in the air in triumphant celebration as he reveals how he confronted and won The Campaign Within. This is a beautifully story, from the pen of a modern day hero.”
--Chely Wright, country music artist and author of Like Me
"A shockingly honest memoir; I was riveted by Neil's transformation from secretive politician to proud advocate."
--Marc Cherry, Creator and Executive Producer, Desperate Housewives
“It's a challenge and blessing to be a pioneer, and Neil plumbs aspects of this unenviable role in his engaging and highly readable memoir. I’ve known Neil as a colleague, but knew few details of his full story. The Campaign Within is enthralling and left me grateful to know him as a friend and fellow activist.”
--Kate Kendell, Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
"First he was straight, then he was gay. First he was a Republican, then he was a Democrat. So if you are straight, gay, republican or democrat you will love this book."
--David Spade
"I cannot recommend The Campaign Within in stronger terms. The former mayor takes us on an important, revelatory journey that scorches with truth. We cry and we laugh; but, mostly, we find genuine hope and comfort in this remarkable man's ultimate peace. After finishing this beautiful book, I can't wait to see what happens next."
-- Richard Pérez-Feria, former Editor in Chief, People en Espanol
“Neil Giuliano's remarkable ability to be both personally confident and dispassionate in describing his journey, and becoming a highly successful and respected mayor along the way, speaks to the uncertainties and possibilities of all of us. The Campaign Within is an especially relevant story for anyone serving in or preparing to run for public office.”
--Don Borut, Executive Director, National League of Cities
-- David Mixner
"Neil is an American gay rights hero. His personal story, beautifully told in his new memoir, is an often dramatic tale about the darkness and fear of the closet and the light and freedom of coming out -- to family, friends, voters and most of all to yourself. It is a story about politics, media, gay rights, and most of all about integrity. The Campaign Within is a landslide winner."
--Richard Socarides, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor, The White House, Administration of President Bill Clinton.
"Neil Giuliano takes his reader by the hand and by the heart in The Campaign Within, a gritty exploration of the American Dream– deeply entrenched in self-doubt, aspiration and faith. Neil does the difficult work; tackling mistakes with sincere regret and with deep compassion for those who caused him harm. His skillful and on-point storytelling allows one to relax and trust in his journey – and to ultimately throw two fists in the air in triumphant celebration as he reveals how he confronted and won The Campaign Within. This is a beautifully story, from the pen of a modern day hero.”
--Chely Wright, country music artist and author of Like Me
"A shockingly honest memoir; I was riveted by Neil's transformation from secretive politician to proud advocate."
--Marc Cherry, Creator and Executive Producer, Desperate Housewives
“It's a challenge and blessing to be a pioneer, and Neil plumbs aspects of this unenviable role in his engaging and highly readable memoir. I’ve known Neil as a colleague, but knew few details of his full story. The Campaign Within is enthralling and left me grateful to know him as a friend and fellow activist.”
--Kate Kendell, Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
"First he was straight, then he was gay. First he was a Republican, then he was a Democrat. So if you are straight, gay, republican or democrat you will love this book."
--David Spade
"I cannot recommend The Campaign Within in stronger terms. The former mayor takes us on an important, revelatory journey that scorches with truth. We cry and we laugh; but, mostly, we find genuine hope and comfort in this remarkable man's ultimate peace. After finishing this beautiful book, I can't wait to see what happens next."
-- Richard Pérez-Feria, former Editor in Chief, People en Espanol
“Neil Giuliano's remarkable ability to be both personally confident and dispassionate in describing his journey, and becoming a highly successful and respected mayor along the way, speaks to the uncertainties and possibilities of all of us. The Campaign Within is an especially relevant story for anyone serving in or preparing to run for public office.”
--Don Borut, Executive Director, National League of Cities
Notă biografică
Neil Giuliano: Neil G. Giuliano is an educator, activist, philanthropy advisor, leadership coach, and speaker. A former mayor and president of a national advocacy organization, he has been involved with community service and public affairs his entire career. Giuliano is the former four-term mayor (1994–2004) of Tempe, Arizona. He wrote the proposal for and then co-chaired hosting the third debate of the 2004 United States presidential elections. He served as President of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) from September 2005, and stepped down from the post in June 2009. In December 2010, he was appointed CEO of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. He currently divides his time between San Francisco and Phoenix, AZ.