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Youngman - Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (Paperback)
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Youngman - Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (Paperback)
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A unique first-hand account of a historical gay trans man's whole
life, which reads like a celebratory coming-of-age novel. Lou kept
candid diaries from the age of 10. Through these extracts, we hear
Lou's life in his own words: from 'playing boys' in his childhood
in Wisconsin, to cruising San Francisco's gay bars for handsome
'youngmen'; from first hearing about gender non-conforming
communities, to becoming a vital part of them as an activist,
author, and archivist. Lou navigated his identity with few role
models and was perhaps the first publicly gay transgender man.
Successfully campaigning to remove heterosexuality from the medical
requirements for gender affirming surgery, Lou was pivotal in our
modern understanding of gender and sexuality as distinct
identities. After he was diagnosed with HIV in 1986, he remarked
that he had been told by clinics that 'it was impossible for me to
live as a gay man, but it looks like I'm gonna die like one.' This
selection shows Lou's joyous love of life, men, and sex. * LAMBDA
LITERARY AWARD WINNER * * PUBLISHING TRIANGLE FINALIST * WITH AN
INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN STRYKER 'Chatty and tender, casually poetic
and voraciously sexual-Sullivan workshopped his identity and his
relationships, committing to the page an interior monologue of
self-discovery that paralleled the gay-liberation movement, the
burgeoning transgender-rights movement, and the aids crisis...
Given how many contemporary trans narratives are rooted in trauma,
their choice to foreground trans pleasure and sensuality is
celebratory, even radical' The New Yorker
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